All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 9 2014 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has formed a partnership with Floodbroker.com that allows agents to sell flood insurance. Through PIA’s exclusive partnership, PIA members’...
Jun 4 2014 // Secretary of State Natalie Tennant’s office has removed all business filings from its website after one displayed an individual’s Social Security number.Tennant told WCHS-TV that the image displaying the number...
Jun 3 2014 // The recent plague of wildfires in Southern California and in neighboring states seems to have more people checking on their homeowners policies – and more people concerned about the threat of wildfires may be taking some...
Jun 2 2014 // Swett & Crawford, part of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), a global wholesale and reinsurance broking group, appointed Todd Morin as vice president and broker for the property practice group. He is based in...
Jun 2 2014 // Most independent insurance agents stick with their top personal lines and commercial lines companies for years, although they are less-than-satisfied in a number of carrier-performance areas. This is among the many...
Jun 2 2014 // U.S. multinational businesses are increasingly seeking opportunities in new regions of the world, expanding outside of the United States and continental Europe into sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. As their...
May 30 2014 // LevelFirst, a wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, announced Kevin Revett has joined the firm as a senior broker. Kevin Revett Revett brings 13 years of wholesale production experience to...
May 29 2014 // The federal terrorism risk insurance backstop, in place in one form or another since 2002, will likely be reauthorized by Congress, and in the absence of a major catastrophe — man-made or otherwise — the current...
May 29 2014 // The newest agency software feature for the personal lines comparative rating system TurboRater allows agency managers to control the ranking order of the carriers their producers see on the quote comparison list,...
May 29 2014 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced that it has received the relevant regulatory approvals from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has completed its acquisition of specialist broker Charles Monat Limited, a life...
May 28 2014 // Vertafore, an insurance software provider, has upgraded its entire portfolio of agency systems for small, mid-size and enterprise insurance agencies. The Sagitta 2014, Vertafore Agency Platform 2014 and AMS360 2014 systems...
May 28 2014 // Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about “nearly all” U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators said on...
May 28 2014 // Worldwide Broker Network has announced that Ascoma Group has joined the fully integrated WBN network of independent insurance brokers and employee benefits consultants, “which now counts 96 member firms in 101...
May 27 2014 // A West Virginia insurance agent and a building owner were sentenced in federal court last week in connection with a Logan arson scheme.U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said that James Gregory Glick, 44, of Logan, was sentenced...
May 23 2014 // ACE Group has expanded its web-based portal to provide coverage for U.S.-based religious organizations and educational institutions, whose employees, students and volunteers travel internationally. The portal,...
May 22 2014 // Mike McKinleyXS Brokers Insurance Agency Inc., an insurance wholesaler based in Quincy, Mass., has named Mike McKinley as chief sales officer. In this newly created position, McKinley will oversee all sales and production...
May 22 2014 // Independent insurance network Brokerslink announced that it has reorganized its previous Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) trading area by splitting it into two separate regions: Europe and Middle East & Africa...
May 22 2014 // Commercial property/casualty insurance brokers Arthur Haas and Jeffrey King joined the Swantner & Gordon branch office of Higginbotham in Corpus Christi, Texas.Haas will serve the general business sector while King...
May 21 2014 // A former insurance agent who has been active in Democratic Party politics has won her party’s primary for the Georgia insurance commissioner post and will face off against the incumbent Republican in the November...
May 20 2014 // The UK’s RSA Insurance Group Plc said on Monday it had reached agreement to sell its majority-owned Canadian brokerage business – Noraxis Capital Corp. – to U.S. insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher &...