All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2016 // Atlanta, GA, March 14, 2016 — Known in the art world for her risk management expertise, Judith Pearson has joined Breckenridge Insurance Group as president of the newly formed Breckenridge Private Asset Management Group...
Mar 14 2016 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) announced disciplinary actions against two Tennessee licensees for several violations including the knowing misappropriation and conversion of moneys and...
Mar 8 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced that it has acquired Lester Brokerage, an independent agency in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey....
Mar 8 2016 // Gerard Prast XS Brokers, a wholesale brokerage and managing general agent based in Quincy, Massachusetts, has hired Gerard Prast as assistant vice president. Prast is based in the firm’s West Hartford, Connecticut,...
Mar 7 2016 // Several years ago a relatively new insurance producer asked me this seemingly simple question, “So, what is the secret to the insurance business?” Mine was a somewhat simplistic answer with deep meaning (and a...
Mar 7 2016 // Julie Diane Shinar, 44, of Long Beach, Calif., was convicted of theft by embezzlement in Long Beach Superior Court.Shinar was ordered to serve three years of formal probation and pay $29,158 in restitution to her victims....
Mar 7 2016 // The Texas-based agency partnership Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that Kansas-based United Agency joined CAA as its 53rd member.Offering both insurance and real estate solutions to Oklahoma and Kansas...
Mar 7 2016 // Atlanta, GA, March 7, 2016 — Mark Walker has joined Breckenridge Insurance Services wholesale brokerage division to oversee the market development efforts as SVP, chief market officer and casualty practice leader. Walker...
Mar 7 2016 // Florida’s Citizens Launches Campaign to Combat Abuse ClaimsCitizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a multi-faceted education campaign in an attempt to combat what it has called a disturbing increase of fraud...
Mar 7 2016 // Due to the complexity and variety of businesses that comprise the agriculture industry in the United States, the knowledge and experience needed by insurance agents serving agribusiness and farm risks extends well beyond...
Mar 7 2016 // How did agencies in small towns ever get started? Someone wanted to work on their own, in sales, and blaze their own future. People don’t usually get into insurance on purpose, and especially not into the insurance...
Mar 7 2016 // It is no secret that many insurance professionals, especially those in sales, tend to be at more advanced stages in their careers. But how do you attract and lead a new generation of brokers when insurance is not near the...
Mar 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 work out underwriting requirements, and the market can be...
Mar 4 2016 // Wholesale insurance broker Midlands Management Corp. has added Jennie Reed to the Texas property/casualty excess and surplus team as a senior broker/underwriter. With more than a decade in the industry, Reed began her...
Mar 3 2016 // As more small business owners become comfortable buying everything including insurance online, exclusive agent carriers will gain an advantage over independent agency carriers in the highly-fragmented and increasingly...
Mar 2 2016 // LevelFirst, the service-based wholesale broker and MGA binding facility owned by IIAT Services Co., has appointed Heath McCasland as vice president.McCasland will assume the responsibility of brokering new business...
Mar 2 2016 // The House Financial Services Committee this morning approved a proposal intended to encourage more private insurers to write flood insurance.The committee approved the Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act...
Mar 1 2016 // Ironshore Inc. has established a dedicated Private Client Group to introduce its new insurance plan, the Ironshore Private Insurance Portfolio. Ironshore’s personal lines policy will be available for high net worth...
Feb 29 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has hired Steve Hall as a property/casualty insurance broker/producer.Hall will be based in EPIC’s Concord, Calif. office and report to Curt Perata, regional director of...
Feb 29 2016 // Vertafore, the Bothell, Wash.-based insurance software provider, announced the acquisition of Keal Technology, a leading provider of broker and commercial management systems in Canada.The move extends Vertafore’s...