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Jan 11 2016 // Mia Chang, 51, former insurance broker and owner of Lotte Insurance Services in Southern California, was sentenced in December for felony insurance fraud and grand theft.After her arrest Chang returned $19,218 in stolen...
Jan 11 2016 // Revenues and earnings for public U.S. insurance brokers are likely to modestly improve in 2016 relative to levels reported through nine months of 2015, according to Fitch Ratings’ 2016 U.S. Insurance Broker Outlook...
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Jan 11 2016 // The Big “I” is very pleased that 2015 yielded a number of legislative successes.Early in 2015, the association scored a tremendous double victory when Congress acted on both the National Association of...
Jan 11 2016 // Wells Fargo & Co. is restarting efforts to expand its insurance brokerage business through acquisitions after previously announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) aspirations did not pan out.Laura Schupbach,...
Jan 7 2016 // New York authorities announced that a Rochester, New York, couple has been charged with defrauding their Rochester insurance agency clients.Gary Gubiotti and Bonnie Gubiotti, both 67, are accused of stealing more than...
Jan 7 2016 // Bryan Young Florida Surplus Line Service Office (FSLSO) has promoted Bryan Young to assistant director of Agent Services Young stepped into the role effective Jan. 1 after 10 years of service with FSLSO. During his tenure...
Jan 6 2016 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Company has launched its Cyber Protection Package. Using Schinnerer’s online broker portal, brokers can quote a cyber policy in minutes by answering a few basic questions about their...
Jan 5 2016 // Lafayette, Calif.-based Stone Creek Insurance Agency has hired three new producers/account managers.Matthew Johnson has been named a commercial lines broker. He specializes in commercial property and liability policies...
Jan 5 2016 // Founders Professional has promoted Jaimee Williams to professional liability broker in Chicago. Williams will be responsible for the continued expansion of Founders’ footprint in the small law firm space.Williams...
Jan 4 2016 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., has acquired B&F Special Risks Inc., a New Orleans (Metairie), La.-based specialty insurance broker. B&F Special Risks was founded in 1977 by J....
Jan 4 2016 // Revenues and earnings for public U.S. insurance brokers are likely to modestly improve in 2016 relative to levels reported through nine months of 2015, according to Fitch Ratings’ 2016 U.S. Insurance Broker Outlook...
Jan 4 2016 // Effective January 1, 2016, the group of five Insurance Innovators wholesale insurance brokerages known as The III Group has been renamed AmWINS Access Insurance Services, a division of AmWINS Group Inc. The III...
Dec 31 2015 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has promoted Tiffany Maggard to vice president. She is based in St. Louis, Mo.Maggard first joined Heffernan’s St. Louis team in 2008 as a sales associate. She perfected her knowledge of...
Dec 30 2015 // Goodbye to the news year 2015, and while there will be no shortage of headline-making topics to associate with the passing year, there was one subject that dominated Insurance Journal’s Western region news...
Dec 29 2015 // Bankers’ misdeeds would be cataloged, by name, on a private registry for hiring managers under a proposal that’s gaining traction as Wall Street firms struggle to restore reputations damaged by the financial...
Dec 29 2015 // Premium misclassification or payroll misclassification is a significant issue for the workers’ compensation industry, according to Bret Shroyer, a solutions architect for Denver, Colo.-based Valen Analytics.Shroyer...
Dec 29 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big “I”) has named James Hanley as the new director of its agency errors and omissions insurance program. Hanley will lead the insurance and risk...
Dec 28 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired 100 percent of the capital stock of Strathearn Insurance Group Pty Ltd., headquartered in Perth, Australia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1993, Strathearn...
Dec 23 2015 // Mia Chang, 51, former insurance broker and owner of Lotte Insurance Services in Southern California, was sentenced for felony insurance fraud and grand theft.Moments after her arrest Chang returned $19,218 in stolen...