All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 14 2016 // XL Catlin announced it has appointed Philippe Gouraud as head of Strategic Client and Broker Management for its Insurance segment, effective April 15, 2016.Based in London, he reports to Kelly Lyles, chief regional...
Apr 14 2016 // New York-based private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners LLC on Monday entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Simply Business, an online brokerage service, which delivers tailored small business insurance...
Apr 14 2016 // A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty in federal court to aiding and abetting arson and conspiracy to tamper with a witness. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of West Virginia said in a news...
Apr 13 2016 // Kannai David Scantlen, 41, of Valley Springs, Calif., a former insurance agent conducting business as Kan I Save Insurance Services, was convicted of insurance fraud and sentenced to 60 days, three years of formal...
Apr 12 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced that E. Stuart Powell Jr., MA, CPCU, CIC, CLU, ChFC, ARM, AMIM, AAI, ARe, CRIS will retire on July 31, 2016 from his current position as vice president...
Apr 11 2016 // It started with a puff of smoke, seeping slowly into the clear and sunny St. Thomas air on a mid-March afternoon. “I went into a meeting, and when I came out, it was very on fire,” recalled Ryan Nichols, who...
Apr 11 2016 // Woodmere, OH, April 11, 2016 – MarshBerry is excited to once again host the MarshBerry 360 Seminar Series. These educational events provide a comprehensive packet of strategies that help insurance agencies and brokers as...
Apr 8 2016 // Finding an exclusion in a directors and officers (D&O) policy to be “ambiguous,” an Illinois appeals court has allowed to go forward a lawsuit filed against a large Chicago insurance brokerage by two former...
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...