All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2016 // U.S. brokers managing retirement accounts must adhere to tough new standards under an Obama administration rule released Wednesday that aims to protect millions of savers from conflicted investment advice.The Labor...
Apr 6 2016 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, has hired Bonita Finley as a senior transportation broker. Finley will help manage TUMI’s local and intermediate trucking business as...
Apr 5 2016 // Commercial insurers eased up slightly on rate cutting in March, according to the MarketScout barometer for the month.After three straight months of price cuts averaging 4 percent, U.S. commercial property, inland marine,...
Apr 5 2016 // A former insurance agent in Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to scamming $505,126.43 from his clients, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.A joint investigation including the OID’s Anti-Fraud Unit led to the...
Apr 5 2016 // April 5, 2016- Change isn’t always easy. If you’re an insurance agent or WYO facing the April 1, 2016, regulatory changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), you know this all too well. As FEMA...
Apr 4 2016 // Boston Insurance Brokerage has named Zachary Hicks vice president in the Denver Colo. office. Hicks will focus on environmental insurance. He previously was a senior environmental underwriter for Chubb Insurance...
Apr 4 2016 // This issue of Insurance Journal features exclusive results from the 2016 Young Agents Survey in which more than 500 young agents nationwide shared their views on the insurance industry and their experience as an agent....
Apr 4 2016 // A survey of London market insurers, brokers, and service providers revealed that 70 percent believe a U.K. exit from the European Union would hurt or severely damage Lloyd’s of London, according to Haggie Partners, a...
Apr 4 2016 // April 4, 2016- As you may know, the world of flood is changing. As of April 1, 2016, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is implementing new changes flowing from the Biggert Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of...
Apr 4 2016 // BB&T Corp. said it has completed its acquisition of wholesale insurance and reinsurance broker CGSC North America (Swett & Crawford) from Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford.North Carolina-based BB&T said it...
Apr 4 2016 // With cyber insurance premiums expected to grow from around $2 billion in 2015 to an estimated $20 billion or more by 2025, insurers and reinsurers are continuing to refine underwriting requirements, according to industry...
Apr 4 2016 // How is it that a certificate of insurance — that seemingly simple, straightforward and most innocent of documents — can be so complex?The certificate of insurance acknowledges the writing and existence of an...
Apr 4 2016 // Time flies but history repeats. Enough time has passed that many people working in insurance today have no experience relative to the disruption, fear and frustration generated by the inquires of various state attorneys...
Apr 4 2016 // It’s no secret that the insurance industry is facing a huge talent gap. Almost half of all insurance professionals are over age 45, with 25 percent of the industry expected to retire by 2018. That’s a...
Apr 1 2016 // April 1, 2016- If you are an insurance agent trying to survive in today’s competitive marketplace, you may have dipped your toes in the flood insurance waters, so to speak. If you have not, get ready to jump in,...
Apr 1 2016 // AmWINS Group Inc. (AmWINS) has selected Craig Dunn to lead the Dallas office of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas. Dunn succeeds Todd Teitell, who is retiring after having served as office president since 1997. Prior to being...
Apr 1 2016 // Goodbye agency principals, producers and customer service reps, hello Roberto Siber, CPCU.Siber is the buff, blue-eyed and bald principal of the Buyonic Insurance Agency in Austin, Texas. This insurance android is more...
Mar 30 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Joseph Distel & Co. Inc. in Farmington, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1955, Joseph Distel & Co. is a managing...
Mar 30 2016 // While all middle market businesses across the world have concerns about cyber risk, few of these firms view it as their biggest exposure, according to a global survey* of 68 leading independent insurance brokers, which...
Mar 30 2016 // Atlanta, GA, March 30, 2016 — Blue River Underwriters, a Breckenridge Insurance Group company, has acquired California-based wholesale commercial auto insurance provider Platinum Program Managers and Insurance Services....