All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 9 2015 // Kathy Lamm, an insurance agent in Costa Mesa, Calif., over the past month has been busy selling a ridesharing endorsement that Farmers Insurance Group introduced in California in late May.Lamm started spreading the word...
Jul 9 2015 // Keystone Insurers Group added three new partners in Missouri.The partners are: Jerome L. Howe Inc. of St. Louis; Schroepfer Bauer Insurance Agency of Union; and Custom Insurance Services Inc. of Crystal City. Jerome L....
Jul 9 2015 // The girlfriend of a man accused of blowing up an Indianapolis, Ind. house, devastating a subdivision and killing two neighbors, nearly doubled the insurance coverage for the contents of her home 11 months before the...
Jul 9 2015 // Independent wholesale broker Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) has appointed Alejandro Padilla as General Manager and Head of Broking for Mexico, Central America, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, effective...
Jul 8 2015 // Utah insurance agent Brent Hilton was sentenced to serve one to 15 years in prison and has been taken into custody from the Third District Court in West Jordan.Hilton pled guilty to one count of pattern of unlawful...
Jul 7 2015 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, announced today the launch of a new dedicated excess facility designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for cyber liability...
Jul 6 2015 // The number 1.00 means different things to different people. In baseball, 1.00 represents a perfect batting average. But in college, a 1.00 grade point average is about as bad as it gets. In workers’ compensation, a...
Jul 6 2015 // Going digital for any agency may seem overwhelming, however experts point to strategies that help set priorities, ease the transition and simplify the process.“One of the biggest hurdles for agents is simply knowing...
Jul 6 2015 // This is the age of big data. The concept is to collect all kinds of data and then use various statistical techniques, usually some sophisticated form of regression analysis, to identify correlations between the data,...
Jul 2 2015 // Specialty insurance brokerage Alliant Insurance Services announced today it has expanded its managing general agent (MGA) practice through the acquisition of Preferred Concepts, an insurance program underwriter and...
Jul 2 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Wes Becknell, business development officer at AFCO in La Vernia, as its Young Associate of the Year.The award recognizes a young associate member of IIAT who...
Jul 2 2015 // Andy N. Siegel, president of Siegel Insurance, Inc., a Trusted Choice insurance agency in Atlanta, was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia, Inc. (IIAG) on June 13, during the...
Jul 2 2015 // Uber is staying in South Carolina. After the transportation network company (TNC) was halted by the state’s Public Service Commission in January and then granted a temporary license through June 30, South Carolina...
Jun 30 2015 // Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (IIAV) inducted its 2015/2016 Board of Directors during the IIAV annual convention held June 21-23, 2015 at the Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront in Virginia Beach,...
Jun 30 2015 // The Court of Appeal upheld a decision by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to revoke the broker-agent license of Wellman Dale Shew, 55, of Fresno.When the California Department of Insurance learned that Shew had...
Jun 30 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named Adam Sammons of MHBT in Dallas the André P. Juneau Young Agent of the Year at its annual conference and trade show in San Antonio.This award is given annually to a...
Jun 30 2015 // Wholesale insurance broker Swett & Crawford Brasil, part of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), the independent global wholesale, underwriting management and reinsurance broker, announced that it has purchased 51...
Jun 30 2015 // Worldwide Facilities, a wholesale broker and managing general agent based in Los Angeles, hired three new brokers for its recently opened Hartford, Connecticut, office. Worldwide Facilities hired Suzanne Averill as senior...
Jun 30 2015 // Global reinsurance and insurance broker Willis Group Holdings and professional services and analytics firm Towers Watson have agreed to an all-stock merger of equals.Upon completion of the merger, Willis shareholders will...
Jun 30 2015 // Dallas, TX, June 30 2015–To use a baseball metaphor, Texas All Risk General Agency (TAR) is batting .725 with Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company at the mid-year point.According to TAR VP David Day, “With the All...