All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 9 2016 // No longer able to compete primarily on price, insurers are now focusing their efforts on pleasing customers, with the payoff being a significant increase in satisfaction among their small business commercial customers,...
Aug 8 2016 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. has appointed Jörg Bruniecki as head of Global Client & Broker Management, effective August 1.Responsible for ensuring that PartnerRe’s largest multinational clients experience a...
Aug 8 2016 // About This Report: Welcome to the 12th annual Insurance Journal Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies report.The Top 100 list is ranked by total property/casualty agency revenue for 2015 and comprises only...
Aug 8 2016 // An agency’s greatest struggle, per many surveys, is finding staff and producers. What if they were as available as different loaves of bread and you could go to a supermarket to purchase producers and...
Aug 8 2016 // Merger and acquisition activity was slower in the second quarter of 2016, compared to Q2 2015, but was still above 2012, 2013 and 2014 levels for the same period. In Q2 2016, there were 88 transactions, compared with 119...
Aug 8 2016 // Within the last decade, the global business marketplace as a whole has undergone several facelifts when it comes to the comprehensive sales process. Perhaps the most noticeable change within this spectrum is the hefty...
Aug 8 2016 // This year marks the 12th annual publication of Insurance Journal‘s Top 100 Agencies special report.This year’s Top 100 welcomes nine newcomers: Cross Financial Corp. (Cross Insurance); Prime Risk Partners Inc.;...
Aug 8 2016 // Great efforts have been made recently to disintermediate the insurance process. One prevalent example of this is by routing insureds directly to the carrier, bypassing the independent agency distribution channel.More and...
Aug 5 2016 // The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has issued a cease and desist order against Angella Swain-Jones (alias Stacey or Sarah) and summarily suspended the insurance license of Cornell Jones and...
Aug 4 2016 // Surplus lines may not be the most widely understood segment of the property/casualty insurance industry but for risk managers of large organizations it’s often the go-to market for complicated risks for which...
Aug 4 2016 // Organic revenue growth in independent insurance agencies and brokerage fell to 4.0 percent for the second quarter of 2016, down sharply from 5.9 percent for the second quarter of 2015, and the lowest rate since 2011, as...
Aug 4 2016 // Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected Hamilton Tillman serve as president at their annual meeting held at Lake Oconee, Georgia.Tillman is president of Tillman Insurance Agency,...
Aug 4 2016 // A former insurance agent in Miami has been convicted and sentenced to prison on multiple felony charges, including creating fake insurance documents for his clients.The Florida Department of Financial Services’...
Aug 3 2016 // San Diego, CA, August 3, 2016 – Atlas General Insurance Services, LLC (‘Atlas’), a national multi-line program administrator, announced the launch of GoQuote, a new online quoting system for managed...
Aug 1 2016 // J.M. Wilson, based in Portage, Mich., has promoted Kristy Galecka to senior property/casualty underwriter and garage specialist. Galecka is responsible for quoting new and renewal accounts for a wide variety of commercial...
Aug 1 2016 // San Mateo, Calif.-based Worldwide Broker Network’s board of directors has elected Francie Starnes as CEO.Starnes succeeds Bruce Basso, who becomes chairman emeritus. Starnes was named WBN president and chief...
Jul 29 2016 // Amid ups and downs, the construction market has nevertheless enjoyed steady growth over the past four years. Now construction insurance specialists believe the market is really heating up.The competition has carriers...
Jul 29 2016 // Manulife (International) Ltd. and QBE Hongkong & Shanghai Insurance Ltd. have formed an exclusive distribution agreement whereby QBE will supply general insurance products in Hong Kong for distribution through...
Jul 28 2016 // Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, and Compare.com, based in Richmond, Va., have partnered to help provide more auto insurance quotes to online insurance shoppers, the companies...
Jul 28 2016 // JLT Re has named Pete Chandler executive vice president and managing broker. He will be based in JLT Re’s San Francisco, Calif. office and report to Ed Hochberg, CEO of JLT Re in North America. Chandler comes from...