All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 26 2016 // American International Group, Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group and affiliates of hedge fund firm Two Sigma Investments said they have agreed to create a technology-enabled insurance platform for sales to the small to...
Apr 26 2016 // Phoenix, AZ, April 26, 2016- Effective immediately, The Keating Group, the wholesale brokerage arm of Keating Companies, has rebranded as tKg Wholesale Brokerage. Commenting on the change, James Keating, CEO of tKg and...
Apr 25 2016 // Experts are cautioning both insurance buyers and sellers not to overreact to the recent federal court decision finding data breach defense coverage under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy.Buyers would be mistaken...
Apr 22 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (Big “I”) has awarded Bill Wilson with the Jeff Yates Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor the association bestows on a non-agent, for a...
Apr 21 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America has awarded Tom Minkler with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its members, during the annual Big “I”...
Apr 21 2016 // A former insurance agent in East Texas must serve three years in prison for running a $5 million medical investment scam.Robert B. Hahn was sentenced in federal court in Tyler. The 64-year-old Tyler man in November pleaded...
Apr 20 2016 // Phoenix, Ariz.-based The Keating Group, the wholesale brokerage arm of Keating Cos., has rebranded as tKg Wholesale Brokerage. James Keating, CEO of tKg and parent Keating Cos., said the change is to show the brokerage is...
Apr 19 2016 // ECC Insurance Brokers Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has added Stephen Sanford in Oak Brook, Ill., as vice president. Sanford joins ECC from Hiscox Insurance’s Executive Liability Group where he was...
Apr 19 2016 // General Star Management Co. has launched a new E&O program for title agents. Available in all jurisdictions except for Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, and West Virginia, the program is offered through American Insurance...
Apr 18 2016 // CGNMB LLP, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, announced that Gordon Newman will retire from his role as CEO on April 20.Subject to regulatory approvals, his role and responsibilities will be assumed by Steve Hearn, CEO...
Apr 18 2016 // Independent insurance agents and brokers from all 50 states convened in Washington, D.C., last week for the biggest and most effective industry gathering of its kind: the Big “I” Legislative Conference. Our...
Apr 18 2016 // Sit down… This is going to be a strange column.First, it’s my last one, as I have just retired. Second, it’s structured as a self-interview.And third, it’s written in the first person; something I...
Apr 18 2016 // The health and fitness industry has exploded in recent years, a trend that experts expect will continue.Gym memberships jumped 18.6 percent in the United States from 2008-2014. More than 54 million Americans belonged to at...
Apr 18 2016 // Independent insurance agents continue to grow and want to grow more with the help of new carrier appointments.This is one of the initial findings of a new national survey of agents conducted by Channel Harvest Research and...
Apr 18 2016 // A Florida-based homeowners insurer has beefed up its flood insurance offering with the launch of a new flood-coverage only company called TypTap.The new company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Homeowners Choice Property...
Apr 18 2016 // Finding an exclusion in a directors and officers (D&O) policy to be “ambiguous,” an Illinois appeals court has allowed to proceed a lawsuit filed against a large Chicago insurance brokerage by two former...
Apr 15 2016 // Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, is the Gerald Solomon-Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) Legislator...
Apr 14 2016 // Independent insurance agents are seeing revenue growth and would like to grow more, but they’ll need help from carriers. Agents indicate a strong desire to add new carriers, but only if those carriers can demonstrate...
Apr 14 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio (IIASA) has honored Gary Whitaker with the Ben R. Binford Award for outstanding service.Whitaker is vice president of Whitaker Insurance Associates. During his 30 years of...
Apr 14 2016 // Two years ago, the online health-insurance broker and human-resources portal Zenefits hired an insurance agent with a criminal record. Now the San Francisco Chronicle is attacking the firm for that decision.While Zenefits...