All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2015 // It is estimated that 40 percent of high-value homes are underinsured. Often, homeowners will only hold enough insurance to cover their mortgage or the sale price of the home, and not enough to rebuild in the event of a...
Mar 23 2015 // There’s a very simple formula for getting whatever you want for your agency. This is so simple it seems trivial and few people follow it.But if these steps are followed, agency owners can create anything they want in...
Mar 19 2015 // Jim Bishop has joined Southwest Risk LP as a vice president and property broker. Bishop has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry with extensive knowledge of the marketplace in the central United...
Mar 18 2015 // Michigan insurance regulators have permanently revoked the insurance licenses of father and son insurance agents and their agencies for selling fraudulent insurance certificates.The Michigan Department of Insurance and...
Mar 18 2015 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has hired Jerry Ascolese as casualty broker for its New York City office. Ascolese, who most recently served as senior vice president at R-T Specialty, will be responsible for providing...
Mar 13 2015 // As the 2015 National Football League draft approaches, a lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London by former University of Southern California Trojans receiver Marqise Lee has placed a spotlight on sports disability...
Mar 13 2015 // Scottsdale, AZ, March 13, 2015 – Nautilus Insurance Group, comprised of Nautilus Insurance Company (“Nautilus”) and Great Divide Insurance Company (“Great Divide”), member companies of W. R....
Mar 12 2015 // Allied Insurance Brokers hired Richard McElhaney as assistant vice president of Safety & Risk Management, and Bill Ferguson as producer for the Eastern U.S. region. Both are based out of Allied’s Pittsburgh...
Mar 12 2015 // Do you prefer a fixed price or a la carte? How about paperless or paper? Are you a cat person or a dog person? Do you prefer “old school” or “new school”?These are some of the optional questions for...
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...