All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 12 2015 // Insurance brokers play an important role in helping people obtain non-group health insurance from the health insurance marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tend to serve different people than...
Aug 11 2015 // Citrix is the newest company partner of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s Agents Council for Technology (ACT). Raleigh, North Carolina-based Citrix offers ShareFile, a file storage, sync and...
Aug 11 2015 // A new report from UK-based financial marketing and consulting firm Finaccord concludes that “affinity schemes for commercial lines insurance in the UK are on the rise as brokers and underwriters strive to grow market...
Aug 11 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 11 2015 // R-T Specialty, LLC’s Retired Directors Assurance Underwriting Services, a division of R-T Specialty, LLC, has a new binding authority for the Retired Directors Assurance (RDA) policy, which provides contingent...
Aug 10 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 10 2015 // Howden UK, part of the Hyperion Insurance Group, is delighted to announce the acquisition of Perkins Slade Forrest Holdings Ltd., subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.Perkins Slade is a leading independent...
Aug 10 2015 // Orlando, FL, August 10, 2015 — Worldwide Facilities, LLC announced today that its Orlando office has recently been designated the company’s binding authority hub serving all states east of the Rocky...
Aug 7 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher — the international division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. – has signed an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Colombian retail insurance broker Guianza S.A. Corredores de Seguros,...
Aug 6 2015 // Pat Green has joined Texas-based insurance wholesaler M.D. Jensvold as a senior broker. Green has more than 15 years of sales experience. Most recently, he was vice president/casualty broker with Oxford Insurance Services...
Aug 6 2015 // Automatic Data Processing Inc., the payroll- processing giant, will offer companies a new way for their employees to select health benefits, challenging firms like Towers Watson & Co. and Marsh & McLennan Cos.ADP...
Aug 5 2015 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage hired Philip Moskie as vice president of Property Brokerage for its New York City office. Moskie brings nearly two decades of wholesale brokerage experience to the role. He most recently...
Aug 5 2015 // New York and Los Angeles private equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC has agreed to acquire Integro Ltd., a specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm. Financial details of the investment were not...
Aug 5 2015 // Two new research studies issued by market research firm Finaccord put a value of £4.64 billion [$7.234 billion] on the size of the total non-life insurance broking market in the UK in 2014, up marginally from £4.55...
Aug 4 2015 // With the aim of helping member agents boost their revenues, Texas Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) is partnering with EFG Cos. to offer ancillary consumer protection products.Texas PIA selected the Simplicity Division...