All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 17 2015 // A former insurance agent one of two people who have been charged with operating a Ponzi scheme allegedly bilking investors from Los Angeles and Kern Counties out of $21 million dollars.Michelle Kenen Seward, 42, of...
Sep 17 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of David Mark Blanton, 50, Leland, N.C., who is charged with six counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent, two counts of forgery of an instrument...
Sep 16 2015 // Frederick H. Eppinger is stepping down as president, chief executive officer and a director of the Worcester, Mass.-based The Hanover Insurance Group. The announcement said Eppinger, 56, is leaving to pursue other...
Sep 11 2015 // Marsh announced it has made an offer to acquire the entire ordinary share capital of Jelf Group plc, a UK-based independent insurance broker and financial services consultancy.The transaction, which is subject to customary...
Sep 11 2015 // Whether you are the owner of a local agency or the CEO of a large public broker – it feels like there is less and less oxygen in the room. Organic sales growth is tough; merger & acquisition activity in 2014 was near...
Sep 10 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Bandy Van Cleave & Williamson of Nashville, Tenn. The agency’s staff will continue to operate from their Nashville location under the local leadership of Bob Van Cleave and Chuck...
Sep 10 2015 // Allied Insurance Brokers has partnered with ProSight Specialty Insurance to offer an all-lines insurance program specifically tailored for the crane industry. The program includes risk management tools, loss control...
Sep 9 2015 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, hired Jeff Connelly as senior vice president/client executive in EPIC’s Greyling Insurance...
Sep 8 2015 // ACE Limited today revealed the leadership teams for the company’s North American business units, including national accounts, middle market, small commercial, high net worth personal lines, wholesale/excess and...
Sep 8 2015 // Castel Underwriting Agencies, the club-style MGA formation platform, has today appointed Vanessa Powell as its first claims manager.Powell joins from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group where she was aviation claims manager....
Sep 8 2015 // Georgia-based Palmer & Cay may have a lot of history behind it but what’s driving the expansion of the independent insurance brokerage into Texas is a very modern sense of what it takes to succeed in the...
Sep 8 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced the arrests of Miami residents Alina Del Prado, 60, and Karla Patricia Figueroa, 40, who are accused of deceptively using...
Sep 7 2015 // I recently listened to an insurance company executive give a discombobulated, “woe is me” speech to a room of agents who were largely ignorant of carriers’ financial success.To summarize his presentation:...
Sep 7 2015 // You can’t take it with you. Every business owner will eventually “sell” his or her business. It can either be on terms the owner defines, or it can be based on whatever happens at the end. So, if an owner...
Sep 7 2015 // About a quarter of independent insurance agents say they work at a firm that belongs to an aggregator cluster. But very few whose agencies don’t already belong to an aggregator want their firms to join one, a fact...
Sep 7 2015 // Steve DeCarloNow that traditional reinsurers are adjusting to the idea that third-party capital providers have moved into their space, managing general agents (MGA) may be next to feel the negative impact of new capital,...
Sep 7 2015 // Plymouth Rock Assurance — a Boston-based auto insurer serving Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire — launched a new online tool called “Prime.”The insurer says the new tool will give...
Sep 3 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Arrow Insurance Service Inc. in Simi Valley, Calif. and it has acquired the assets of EmSpring Corp. in Washington.Terms of the deals were not disclosed. Arrow provides...
Sep 3 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Sisk & Co. of Denver, Colo. The agency’s 27 employees will continue to operate from the Denver headquarters under the local leadership of Principal Thomas J. Sisk. Sisk & Co....
Sep 3 2015 // Cole Millican Florida’s Triton Insurance Group, a provider of home, auto, business, motorcycle, umbrella, boat and workman’s compensation insurance, has appointed Cole Millican as its newest agent. According to...