All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 19 2014 // The NFL Players Association is asking player agents to warn clients that signing with the New Orleans Saints could subject them to unfavorable workers’ compensation benefits.In an email Friday, NFLPA chief DeMaurice...
May 19 2014 // Chester A. McPherson, who has been serving as interim commissioner for the Washington, D.C., Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB), has been appointed as acting commissioner, D.C. Mayor Vincent C....
May 19 2014 // The Western Insurance Agents Association is throwing up some objections to a California Department of Insurance proposal that would enable the department’s hearing bureau to adjudicate agent/broker and carrier...
May 19 2014 // Call it a little luck or a good timing – maybe a bit of both – but an insurer focused on high net worth individuals has added California to the list of states in which it does business at a time when the number of...
May 19 2014 // A North Dakota administrative law judge on April 28 upheld a cease and desist order issued by Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm against insurance producer Frederick Paul Skoda, formerly of Fargo, N.D., now of Detroit Lakes,...
May 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors say an insurance broker has admitted stealing nearly $1 million while selling health care coverage he knew was fake. Seventy-year-old David Clark of Morristown, N.J., pleaded guilty Wednesday to...
May 13 2014 // Insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired the assets of two agencies specializing in the recreational vehicle market. The businesses acquired are Agency Management Corp. (AMC) and its affiliate, Recreational...
May 12 2014 // Underwriting manager Victor O. Schinnerer & Co. has launched a new residential builders’ risk program. Schinnerer will serve as a program access point for retail agents and brokers.The inland marine line of...
May 12 2014 // A Tulsa insurance agent has pleaded guilty to exploitation of the elderly for defrauding a Muskogee couple out of nearly $300,000, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. Presley Keith Dennis was arrested in January...
May 12 2014 // Computer technology has revolutionized the collection and use of massive amounts of data, and yet, somewhat ironically, it’s frequently harder to find what one actually needs. Aphorisms abound – “big...
May 9 2014 // Project CAP, the organization formed to help local independent agents compete in the digital economy under the Trusted Choice brand, has raised $10 million from two additional carrier investors.The capital from the two new...
May 6 2014 // Bill Martin has been elected president of the Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) for 2014 – 2015.Other members of CAA’s newly elected management committee include new Treasurer Pete Bibby, new Second Vice...
May 6 2014 // An administrative law judge in North Dakota has made permanent a cease and desist order issued by Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm against insurance producer Frederick Paul Skoda, formerly of Fargo, N.D., now of Detroit...
May 6 2014 // Declaration Brokerage, LLC, a Mahwah, N.J.-based insurance agency, has acquired the business of RBLA of PA, a Stroudsburg, Penn.-based agency that offers commercial and personal lines coverages.Declaration Brokerage was...
May 5 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Stephen L. Brault to the newly created position of director of broker relations.Stephen L. BraultIn his new role at Business Risk...
May 5 2014 // The insurance industry is moving to end the clutter of “sticky notes” with passwords on monitors everywhere with a tool that reduces the need for agencies to keep multiple passwords.A non-profit industry...
May 5 2014 // There are essentially two types of workers’ compensation fraud – premium fraud and claimant fraud – and insurance producers can play a role in the discovery and resolution of both, according to one investigator...
May 5 2014 // A recent study reviewed in The Economist (Jan. 13, 2014) proved that competition was required to foster business success and progress. This makes sense. Competition is in many ways the “invisible hand” that...
May 5 2014 // Bruce Cochrane of the Renaissance Alliance says agents have to measure everything to stay competitive, however that does not mean relying on technology alone, according to experts who work with and for agencies.“Many...
May 5 2014 // The middle-aged white woman told the audience of mostly older white male businessowners that much of the country and many of their future customers don’t look like them or necessarily share all their values.While...