All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 1 2014 // Dallas, TX – July 1, 2014 – U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the eighth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that it has named Dean Mills a Vice...
Jun 30 2014 // The attorney for a former Kansas insurance agent accused of stealing nearly $2 million from policyholders says the case is expected to go to trial.Kari Schmidt said her client, Jason Matthew Pennington, has not reached a...
Jun 30 2014 // Hub International Insurance Services Inc. named Jay Corbett as a senior vice president of the commercial division based in Folsom, Calif.In addition to his commercial brokerage production role, Corbett will serve as the...
Jun 26 2014 // Two Florida independent insurance agencies — Acentria, Inc. and Gateway Insurance Agency, L.C. — announced they are merging.Gateway, which has serving Dade, Broward and West Palm Beach communities since 1952, is...
Jun 26 2014 // Year-to-date through June 20, the insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market witnessed 160 deal announcements, compared to 134 deals over the same period of 2013 — an increase of roughly 20 percent, according to...
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Jun 19 2014 // Insurance Noodle has launched an integrated property and casualty facility for small contractors, bringing together several major carriers via a single access point. The program was designed to help agents working with...
Jun 18 2014 // John Monreal, 45, of Santa Clarita, Calif. was arrested on May 30 by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies on 11 felony counts of embezzlement and insurance code violations after he allegedly duped...
Jun 18 2014 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has added data compromise coverage to its insurance agents errors & omissions (E &O) program. The endorsement carries an annual aggregate limit of $100,000 for response expenses and an...
Jun 18 2014 // Marsh announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Panamanian insurance broker and advisor Semusa, Marsh’s long-standing local correspondent broker.Terms of the transaction were...
Jun 18 2014 // Recent announcements by giant retailers Walmart and Overstock.com that they entering the insurance sales game have elicited a healthy response from the insurance industry. Some agents have expressed concern and frustration...
Jun 17 2014 // Former West Mansfield insurance agent Robert Horney, of Marysville, Ohio, was sentenced in Logan County Common Pleas Court to serve 60 days in jail, five years on community control and ordered to pay more than $21,000 in...
Jun 16 2014 // A father/daughter team of insurance professionals recently were awarded two of the highest honors bestowed upon independent agents in Texas at the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas annual conference and trade show in...
Jun 16 2014 // A Florida judge has signed-off on a plan by regulators to allow a failed Florida property insurer’s policyholders to be assumed by another company, although policyholders will retain the option to seek coverage...
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Jun 16 2014 // That we live in a litigious society is not something new; we’ve been there for decades. Lawsuits have long followed auto accidents and mishaps that occur in homes, very often causing defendants to dig so deep to pay...
Jun 13 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired The Plus Companies Inc. in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Terms were not disclosed.Established in 1985, The Plus Companies Inc.(TPC) is a managing general agent and program...
Jun 13 2014 // Cree Teel has joined the Burns & Wilcox Brokerage team in North Dallas as vice president and broker.He will work closely with Managing Director David M. Gross to provide expert counsel to clients on oil and gas,...
Jun 13 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named James Russell of Texas Associates Insurors/NewFirst Insurors in El Campo as the André P. Juneau Young Agent of the Year. In addition, the association honored Jason...
Jun 13 2014 // A former Mississippi insurance agent is asking a federal judge for speedy consideration of his motion to vacate his conviction related to an insurance scam involving Lafayette County.Ken Nowlin of Ecru pleaded guilty in...