All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2016 // Online personal insurance seller CoverHound is adding business insurance offerings— including workers’ compensation and commercial auto— to its online platform at CoverHound.com.The site is starting by focusing...
Sep 21 2016 // Global Risk Partners Ltd. (GRP), the London-based insurance broking and managing general agent investment vehicle, has acquired the commercial and personal insurance broker, SLK General Insurance Services Ltd., based in...
Sep 20 2016 // Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance announced the formation of a new master agency in support of planned growth in the northern California region.Strategic Independent Insurance Agency Solutions is headquartered in Santa...
Sep 20 2016 // Insurance broker Hub International Limited (HUB) has named Marc Cohen, currently regional president of HUB East Region, as president of HUB International as part of a restructuring of top management.Cohen will replace...
Sep 20 2016 // XS Brokers, a Quincy, Mass., headquartered independent insurance brokerage, has hired Jason Kent as a broker in the firm’s Connecticut office.His hiring comes as the firm has seen continued growth in its Connecticut,...
Sep 19 2016 // It’s no secret that the world of insurance is consolidating. The number of insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2016 ranked as the second-most-active six-month period since 2008, according...
Sep 19 2016 // 7 Key Trends Producers Should Watch to Keep from Being Left BehindIn “Left Behind,” the first book in an apocalyptic series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, the main characters find themselves scrambling to...
Sep 19 2016 // Pat Kilkenny and Bob Kimmel put the K’s in K2 Insurance Services five years ago. That’s when they began using their combined 60 years of insurance experience to work buying up and developing businesses with the...
Sep 19 2016 // Among the many innovations happening in the insurance industry today, gamification is surely one of the more interesting.At the nexus of trends ranging from behavioral science and social networking to the Internet of...
Sep 19 2016 // In terms of employment opportunities, the insurance industry in Ohio is growing at a robust pace, a state insurance industry trade group says.In the 2016 edition of its “Insurance in Ohio” report, the Ohio...
Sep 19 2016 // The number of insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2016 ranked as second-most-active six-month period since 2008.According to a new report on agency merger activity by Chicago-based investment...
Sep 19 2016 // The just released Insurance Digital Transformation Study (available at www.insurancedigitalrevolution.org) sheds light on why agents struggle with adapting to digital technology. As we have discussed extensively, agents...
Sep 15 2016 // Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY), a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state of New York, elected John C....
Sep 15 2016 // Reinsurers, forced to cut prices for four years in a row, should target brokers’ fees as the industry seeks to reduce costs, according to Lloyd’s of London Chairman John Nelson.The brokers need to cut profit...
Sep 15 2016 // ProSight Specialty Insurance has launched a new pest control program to be distributed by Program Brokerage Corporation (PBC), a wholesale insurance brokerage firm and the official endorsed broker of the National Pest...
Sep 14 2016 // An insurance agent from Jackson, Miss., is the latest person indicted in a corruption case tied to the former head of the Mississippi prison system.Guy E. “Butch” Evans, 61, appeared Aug. 24 in U.S. District...
Sep 13 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) last week installed new officers who have begun serving their terms.Connecticut independent agent Spencer Houldin was inaugurated as the...
Sep 13 2016 // A former Ohio insurance agent and agency owner has been sentenced for grand theft after pleading guilty to misappropriating more than $58,000 from two clients, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced.Charles Gabel, of...
Sep 13 2016 // Iroquois South, a network of independent insurance agencies, has added its first members in Louisiana: Juban Insurance Group of Baton Rouge; Lowry-Dunham, Case & Vivien of Slidell; Louisiana Insurance Services of...
Sep 9 2016 // An Orange County, California court has given the state’s Department of Insurance a stunning smack down in a long-running case about the “broker fees” charged by some insurance agents. The complicated case...