All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 12 2015 // According to analysts, technologists, aggregators and others, the independent agency system is in trouble.Somebody forget to tell independent agents. Or more to the point, the doomsayers perhaps didn’t notice that...
Mar 11 2015 // The Board of Directors of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Harden has elected three of its current vice presidents as officers for 2015. Kelly Craddock, Bettilyn Lunetta, and Elisa Simpson were recognized by the company as new...
Mar 11 2015 // The U.S. economy is evolving in many ways, most significantly when it comes to both the cost of capital and the ownership of capital, and that change in capital ownership is a challenge for the insurance industry,...
Mar 10 2015 // Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.“This is huge,” Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at...
Mar 9 2015 // The California Earthquake Authority has again kicked off its annual “Marketing Value Program,” in which the quasi-private earthquake insurer encourages agents to sign up to receive direct mail marketing...
Mar 9 2015 // The Economist’s Insurance 2015 Conference, which took place on Tuesday, March 15, at the ornate Clothworkers Hall in London, featured a panel that expressed the views of insurers, brokers and their clients in a...
Mar 9 2015 // With earthquake swarms steadily increasing in Oklahoma, the state insurance department reports that more than 2,500 Oklahoma insurance professionals have completed a one-hour continuing education course on earthquake...
Mar 9 2015 // That Google is getting into auto insurance should have the voice in the head of every agent who sells personal auto coverage saying: “Be afraid, be very afraid.”OK, that’s not exactly how W.R. Berkley...
Mar 9 2015 // On occasion I find myself in a position having to explain insurance language to non-insurance people, particularly attorneys and CPAs. Their responses range from vacant stares to confusion.For example, think about...
Mar 9 2015 // The nonstandard auto market is characterized by substandard operating performance. Since 2007, carriers writing nonstandard auto policies have reported deteriorating operating performance and many are struggling to...
Mar 9 2015 // By 2020, the entire insurance industry will have 400,000 positions to fill. About 120 academic programs exist worldwide offering courses, concentrations and majors in risk management and insurance. About 80 are located in...
Mar 9 2015 // There appears to be little dispute among agents about the importance of going mobile, particularly for younger clients who expect it. What’s in doubt, however, is which mobile applications, or apps, make the most...
Mar 9 2015 // As an independent insurance agent you’re an expert in many things. You understand the right questions to ask in order to provide the right level of coverage. You know how to overcome price sensitivity by explaining...
Mar 9 2015 // Those now running comparison insurance shopping websites believe that they could be helped if Google enters into the business because the giant search engine could draw more attention to buying insurance online.However,...
Mar 5 2015 // An analysis by the San Antonio Fire Department says the arrival of specialized resources to a December fire that killed five residents of a senior living facility near San Antonio, Texas, was delayed because responders...
Mar 5 2015 // KENNESAW, GA, March 5, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, has hired Tracy Anderson as a property broker to its Atlanta-based team. Anderson brings nearly a...
Mar 5 2015 // Speaking at the 3rd Asia Insurance Brokers’ Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Jose Manuel Fonseca, chairman of Brokerslink, told delegates that, in order to address global challenges, brokers and broker networks must adapt or...
Mar 4 2015 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham and Aycock & Fowler, in Lubbock, Texas, have merged.Both are independent insurance firms providing property and liability insurance, risk management and employee benefit services to...
Mar 3 2015 // Channel Harvest Research, in partnership with Insurance Journal, is conducting its 2015 national survey of agents’ attitudes about their carrier partners.This is the seventh annual study on key aspects of the...
Mar 3 2015 // Research conducted for the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) found that leaders of British small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) do not always read their insurance documents, with over one quarter (29...