All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 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 22 2016 // The insurance marketplace for cyber liability is constantly evolving. Technology is always improving, the level of data security and awareness is escalating and the tools used by the criminals and the bad actors are...
Aug 18 2016 // A former Oklahoma insurance agent has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for fraud, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.Gary Edward Hibbing, 53, was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of wire...
Aug 18 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...
Aug 18 2016 // Boston Insurance Brokerage Inc. (BIB), a provider of commercial insurance, tapped Brian Lynch, vice president of high value personal lines, to head the opening of its office in Washington D.C. Lynch initially joined the...
Aug 12 2016 // Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc., an insurance producer trade organization based in Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Julie MacConnell from director of marketing and communications to assistant vice...
Aug 12 2016 // The insurance license of Zane Amy was revoked following an investigation by the Idaho Department of Insurance that showed he altered documents to get his clients premium discounts.Ae was sentenced for insurance fraud, a...
Aug 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Chicago gave a thumbs-up this week to an obscure regulatory practice that helps the U.S. government account for projected costs of climate change. The decision comes less than a week after the...
Aug 12 2016 // An investigation by the Georgia Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division has resulted in the arrest of an agent in Gwinnett County insurance for fraud, according to a statement from Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.Julia...
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...