All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 27 2015 // A former Ohio insurance agent was sentenced in early May after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and theft, Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor announced.Former McConnelsville insurance agent James Brent Whitehouse was...
May 27 2015 // Southwest Risk LP has added Robin Page as a vice president and broker in the company’s Dallas office. Page began his insurance career with Chubb in 1973 as a property, inland marine and package underwriter in Dallas....
May 27 2015 // Minnesota’s health insurance exchange is having a big problem with attracting small businesses.MNsure was originally expected to cover 155,000 people in small-group plans by next year. Enrollment was only 1,405...
May 27 2015 // The head of Wall Street’s self-regulator criticized the Obama administration’s effort to impose stricter standards on brokers who manage retirement accounts, saying the rule would make it difficult for smaller...
May 27 2015 // Most of my insurance career has been on the agency side, but I have also worked on the insurance carrier side. What I learned is that clearly neither side knows what the other side deals with on a daily basis. Agents think...
May 22 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) is launching a new program aimed at supporting the men and women of the armed forces and assisting them in finding post-military careers in the insurance...
May 21 2015 // Independent broker network Brokerslink has signed a three year strategic partnership agreement with pan-African insurance group, Saham Finances.The bulletin said the agreement one of the biggest pan-African insurance...
May 20 2015 // Some consumers may be agog over Google Compare, but insurance industry vendors like software provider Vertafore have been working to deliver quotes and ratings more quickly and conveniently for years.That’s the...
May 18 2015 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and program administrator in Charlottesville, Virginia, hired Stephen A. Holcombe as senior account executive to to support the firm’s Northeast territory. He...
May 18 2015 // Independent insurance agents are accustomed to competition but many are watching with heightened interest the entry of one new competitor in particular, Google Compare.Bill Wilson, director of the Virtual University at the...
May 18 2015 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) expanded its membership again in 2015 with the addition of eight new organizations, all based in Canada.The Canadian organizations sought to become part of the...
May 18 2015 // A broker who does not fully understand a client’s business or lacks direct links with insurers may not only fall short in advising on coverage, but can cause headaches on all sides of the insurance relationship,...
May 18 2015 // Insurance producers sell roughly the same product as their competitor. The competitive edge often touted by producers is that their firm “has the best service” or “this policy has broader coverage”...
May 18 2015 // The auto insurance comparison website Google Compare is expanding into Texas, Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as adding ratings and insurance agent support.That announcement was made on May 5 by Stephanie Cuthbertson,...
May 18 2015 // Modern consumers shop online for everything from groceries to new homes. It only makes sense that they’re looking to the web for insurance polices as well. After all, why would they pick up the phone and call an...
May 18 2015 // Protecting clients against growing and poorly understood risks associated with information technology system failures is a leading concern of the insurance industry today, according to a group of prominent underwriters and...
May 18 2015 // The Texas Senate on April 30 passed a bill aimed at stemming the onslaught of property claim litigation that has been occurring with increasing frequency in the state following natural catastrophes.Advocates of Senate Bill...
May 15 2015 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched an enhanced suite of general liability and umbrella coverage offerings for independent insurance agents to offer their business clients.These product enhancements include...
May 15 2015 // Integro Ltd., an insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in New York City, has acquired London-based Kite Warren & Wilson Ltd., which specializes in marine hull & liability coverage and financial...
May 15 2015 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance based in Huntington Beach, California, announced that it has acquired three new insurance brokerages in Buffalo, New York. Confie acquired three agencies in...