All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 20 2014 // KENNESAW, Ga., August 20, 2014 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, the wholesale commercial brokerage division of Breckenridge Insurance Group, has hired Jeffrey Vick as a vice president as part of the Chicago-based team....
Aug 19 2014 // National Financial Partners Corp. (NFP) announced the acquisitions of two independent insurance agencies in New England: Poulos Insurance Inc. and Altus Specialty Group LLC. Terms were not disclosed. NFP said the...
Aug 19 2014 // InVEST, the insurance industry’s classroom to career education program, announced that all Chicago Public School Career and Technical Education (CTE) finance programs will now offer its curriculum to seniors.The...
Aug 18 2014 // Southwest Insurance Agents Alliance has expanded its team with the addition of Nate Call and William R. Gordon as regional vice presidents for Arizona.Both Call and Gordon will be responsible for membership service,...
Aug 18 2014 // USI Insurance Services announced it has entered into an agreement with certain subsidiaries of Willis North America Inc., part of Willis Group Holdings, to acquire seven of Willis’ retail insurance brokerage...
Aug 18 2014 // From a producer’s perspective, the words in the headline are dangerous when spoken by a customer or prospect. Simply duplicating what the insured currently has, whether the account is commercial or personal, can and...
Aug 18 2014 // Retail insurance agents in Texas are allowed to charge certain fees in addition to a commission in relation to selling an insurance policy, but those fees must be disclosed to the customer.“Texas is one of the few...
Aug 15 2014 // Jacob Richard Bonzer, 27, formerly of Lake Forest, Calif. was arrested Wednesday in Chicago by a U.S. Marshals Task Force on 96 felony counts including grand theft, forgery and denial of benefits.According to a joint...
Aug 15 2014 // Things have changed a bit for the surplus lines industry since the Non-admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act, (NRRA) part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation, passed in 2010.The NRRA’s implementation has...
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...