All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 1 2015 // Two of the property/casualty insurance industry’s ratings entities – Fitch and Standard & Poor’s – do not see eye-to-eye on whether reinsurance price declines are moderating.Fitch sees the downward...
Aug 31 2015 // Texas Legal, the statewide nonprofit legal insurance plan founded by the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Legislature, announced it is now a member of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT).Legal insurance covers...
Aug 31 2015 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. has entered into an agreement involving the acquisition by U.S. Risk of an undisclosed ownership interest in Florida-based Strategic Program Managers, a specialist trucking MGA and broker....
Aug 30 2015 // Plymouth Rock Assurance — a Boston-based auto insurer serving Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire — this month launched a new online tool called “Prime.”The insurer says the new tool will...
Aug 26 2015 // In a 25-year span leading up to 2005, homeowners insurers in Louisiana wrote a total of $13 billion in homeowners insurance premium, from which they earned $1 billion in profit, according to the chief actuary at the state...
Aug 26 2015 // The insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro Ltd. has acquired Entertainment Risk Management Ltd. (ERM), a London-based managing general agent (MGA), to augment its international entertainment practice....
Aug 24 2015 // ProSight Specialty Insurance has partnered with Allied Insurance Brokers to offer coverage for the scaffolding industry.According to The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) it is estimated that 65 percent...
Aug 19 2015 // AAdvantage Insurance Group in Glen Carbon, Ill., led by founder Dave Viox, recently announced a merger with Premier Insurance Associates located in Edwardsville, Ill.Vince and Deb Valesano, former owners of Premier...
Aug 19 2015 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty and employee benefits brokerage and consultant based in San Francisco, hired Bob Baldauf as a property & casualty insurance broker/producer for...
Aug 19 2015 // Texas-based independent insurance firm Higginbotham has hired Jonathan Sakulenzki as an employee benefits producer in McAllen, Texas.Sakulenzki joins the McAllen office’s two commercial property/casualty insurance...
Aug 19 2015 // Pictured left to right: Michael Mahoney and Susan DoyleAtlanta, GA, August 19 2015 — As part of the growth plans for its Auto Dealer and United States Longshoreman & Harbor Workers Act (USL&H) insurance programs,...
Aug 18 2015 // Insurance producers are calling upon the Obama Administration to begin implementation of a licensing reform measure signed into law eight months ago.When President Obama signed the renewal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance...
Aug 17 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...
Aug 17 2015 // The phrase “you can’t judge a book by its cover” dates back to the mid-1800s. While that may ring true for the literary world, the opposite is true when it comes to an organization’s errors and...
Aug 17 2015 // Fellow agents, Insurance Journal readers, experts, educators, marketing professionals, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Zig Ziglar, CNBC’s Kelly Evans, Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine have been...
Aug 17 2015 // Independent agencies are enjoying a period of high profitability boosted by healthy organic growth despite continued soft pricing in commercial lines.Independent insurance agents/brokers posted median organic growth of 5.9...
Aug 17 2015 // Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has awarded $34.9 million in grants to 37 district attorney offices representing 42 counties in California to combat workers’ compensation insurance fraud.The grants are funded...
Aug 14 2015 // The California Department of Motor Vehicles has agreed to make major revisions proposed by the Independent Agents & Brokers of California to its commercial requester agreement that will permit agents and brokers to...
Aug 14 2015 // International insurance broker and risk management firm Integro Ltd. announced that it has acquired AFL Insurance Brokers Ltd.’s Aviation division; a move that it said would enhance “Integro’s global...
Aug 13 2015 // Zurich is launching a new management liability offering, specifically designed to protect small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia, with turnovers up to AUD$50 million.The new product will be provided via...