All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 29 2016 // Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. has agreed to buy MetLife Inc.’s adviser-force business and affiliated broker-dealer.According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the price is $300...
Feb 26 2016 // MetLife Inc., the life insurer that is reshaping its business mix to limit government oversight, is in talks with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. about a possible sale of MetLife Premier Client Group, the...
Feb 26 2016 // Keystone Insurers Group announced it has added three new partners in Missouri: Scott Agency of Montgomery City, Harrison Agency of Columbia and Anderson & Green Insurance Agency of Sikeston.Harrison Agency was...
Feb 25 2016 // Middleton, Wis.-based wholesale broker and managing general agent, Compass Specialty Risk LLC, has added Matt Huczek as assistant vice president and broker.Based in Middleton and focused on casualty lines with an emphasis...
Feb 25 2016 // The demise of Google’s online insurance comparison site Google Compare is being hailed by some in the industry as a victory for the traditional agency system.But agents may want to hold off on breaking out the...
Feb 24 2016 // Three months after it announced it would sell its North American operations, U.K.-based wholesale and reinsurance broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has a buyer. North Carolina-based BB&T Corp. has agreed to...
Feb 24 2016 // Towergate and its subsidiary Arista, a Lloyd’s coverholder, have formed a partnership with the insurer Ageas, which will provide capacity of £60 million ($82.9 million), each year for the next five years.The...
Feb 23 2016 // The insurance industry had a lot to say about what Google did wrong a day after the search engine giant said it would be pulling the plug on its year-long Google Compare experiment selling auto insurance online.Many...
Feb 23 2016 // Anthony John Diaz, 35, was arraigned today in the Fresno County Superior Court in California to answer charges that he allegedly stole insurance premiums from policyholders.Diaz was arrested earlier this month by...
Feb 23 2016 // An Arkansas insurance agent has been charged with fraud and ordered to pay $127,748.06 in restitution.The Arkansas Insurance Department revoked the resident producer’s license of Samuel Bowron Phillips of Fort Smith...
Feb 23 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a new website for customers, agents and other stakeholders that, according to the company, offers a more comprehensive gateway into the state’s insurer of last...
Feb 22 2016 // After a successful pilot, Hiscox has launched Hiscox Trader, a new e-trading solution for U.K. commercial insurance brokers in partnership with insurance technology specialists Open GI London.The new cloud-based technology...