All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...