All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 14 2014 // Technology is not an incentive when it comes to attracting and retaining millennials to the insurance industry but it can provide overall job satisfaction in terms of flexibility and career growth opportunities, according...
Aug 12 2014 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC, a specialized large account brokerage and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., appointed Joe Roberta as managing director of the Northeast Casualty...
Aug 12 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Cowles & Connell based in Brewster, New York and Meriden, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1892, Cowles &...
Aug 12 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that it has acquired certain assets of Minvielle & Chastanet Insurance Brokers located in the eastern Caribbean. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The bulletin...
Aug 11 2014 // Rachel Dai of Milton, Ga., and Keenan Huskey of Greenville, S.C., won the girls and boys divisions, respectively, at the recent 46nd Annual Trusted Choice Big “I” National Championship in Bridgeport, W.V.The...
Aug 11 2014 // A former insurance agent in Creek County has been sentenced to 120 days in jail for embezzling premium payments from elderly clients, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced.Donna Laverne Parrick, 50, pleaded guilty to...
Aug 8 2014 // A California-based insurance broker settled a lawsuit with a Los Angeles man by dropping off buckets full of thousands of quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies, his attorney said.Andres Carrasco, 76, filed a lawsuit in 2012...
Aug 8 2014 // A Gwinnett County insurance agent currently under investigation by the state insurance commissioner’s office has agreed to surrender his license to sell insurance in Georgia, according to officials. Insurance agent...
Aug 8 2014 // International insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has announced its acquisition of Stonehouse Conseillers Ltd., “a London based specialist insurance broker servicing the needs of commercial film...
Aug 7 2014 // A former Wichita insurance agent accused of defrauding policyholders has struck a deal with prosecutors for a 42-month prison sentence.Jason Matthew Pennington pleaded guilty on Aug. 5 to two counts of wire fraud and one...
Aug 6 2014 // There were 165 announced merger and acquisition transactions of insurance agencies in the U.S. and Canada in the first six months of 2014, a jump of nearly 40 percent over the same period in 2013.Also, according to an...
Aug 6 2014 // Program Brokerage Corp. (PBC), a wholesale subsidiary of insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub), has hired Michael Kambos as first vice president of the Professional Liability division. Based out of the...
Aug 6 2014 // Confie Seguros, a Huntington Beach, California-based national provider of personal lines insurance, has acquired three insurance brokerages.Among these additions is Bower Insurance, an agency in Lockport, New York,...
Aug 5 2014 // Calling innovative insurance marketers! Share your sales, marketing and agency management ideas with the insurance community and they could be featured in Insurance Journal magazine’s Aug. 18 issue. To submit your...
Aug 5 2014 // Independent insurance agents and brokers reported median organic growth of 5.8 percent for the second quarter of 2014, a weakening from 6.2 percent for the first quarter of 2014 and 6.9 percent for the second quarter of...
Aug 4 2014 // Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services (WTCI) has hired Jennifer Terra as vice president/casualty broker. Terra joins WTCI from Partners Specialty Group, where she specialized in the analysis and placement of complex...
Aug 4 2014 // Owning an insurance agency does not equate to “owning” the customers it services. If the agents who have the relationships with those customers leave, the business will be at risk. It is the difference between...
Aug 4 2014 // State Farm, the largest private auto insurer in the U.S., reported $33.6 billion in direct premiums written for private passenger auto in 2013, representing 18.5 percent of the market share. —The National Association of...
Aug 4 2014 // Small commercial lines is suddenly the Cinderella of the insurance industry. The previously unwanted stepchild turned beauty queen is being courted, pursued, and being offered dowries for marriage. Dowries and marriage are...
Aug 4 2014 // About This Report: Welcome to the 10th annual Insurance Journal Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies report.The Top 100 list is ranked by total property/casualty agency revenue for 2013 and comprises only those...