All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 9 2016 // London-based BMS Re US, a specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, has acquired a reinsurance intermediary that complements its own operations.BMS, which is the broking arm of Minova Insurance, acquired Advocate...
Sep 8 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 acivity by Chicago-based investment...
Sep 7 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 7 2016 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Anchorage, Alaska-based Patterson Insurance Brokers.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kent Patterson, Patterson’s president, will join Hub Northwest as vice...
Sep 7 2016 // Integro Insurance Brokers, a New York headquartered international broker and risk management firm, has acquired Insurance Revolution Inc., a Princeton, N.J., based risk management firm. Insurance Revolution Inc. is the...
Sep 7 2016 // Reinsurance premiums are likely to continue to fall next year, ratings agencies said on Tuesday, following years of weaker prices due to competition in the sector and a lack of natural catastrophe losses.Reinsurers act as...
Sep 6 2016 // Federal officials say a Mississippi physician offered to illegally trade prescriptions for escort services and later sold prescriptions for money to the escort and an undercover agent.Dr. Michael Loebenberg of Ocean...
Sep 6 2016 // Dan McMullen is an insurance agent in Ferguson, Mo. His Solo Insurance office is on West Florissant Avenue, the epicenter of the trouble two years ago. The building next to his office burned into ruins.There aren’t...
Sep 6 2016 // It’s been a rough ride, full of twists, turns and a few roadblocks for truckers and their insurance specialists.Truckers today face a number of obstacles that have raised the cost of doing business, including tough...
Sep 6 2016 // Too few Americans take steps to prepare for disasters, and too many assume their home insurance policies will bail them out if one strikes.As disaster season peaks, a new national consumer survey commissioned by Trusted...
Sep 6 2016 // Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based IDT911, an identity theft protection firm, isn’t too high on the industry’s knowledge of cyber insurance, cybercrime and data theft.Goodman...
Sep 1 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant based in San Francisco, Calif., has hired two managing principals from Integro Insurance Brokers...
Sep 1 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 1 2016 // There’s a new website aimed at changing the way millennials deal with buying insurance – but it’s focused on a widely under-served segment of the insurance market – renters’ insurance.Launched by two...
Aug 30 2016 // Insurance and financial services firm, Higginbotham, has hired commercial property/casualty insurance broker Ryan B. Dill as associate at its Houston practice.Dill joins Higginbotham’s 110 local insurance, risk...