All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2014 // Bankruptcy law’s “safe harbor,” which prevents customers of defunct brokerages from being sued, applies even when the broker was engaged in fraud and violated multiple securities laws, the U.S. Court of...
Mar 18 2014 // The Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) and specialty broker Lockton Affinity have launched a new insurance program to protect nurses and Visiting Nurse Association member agencies. VNAA is sponsoring the...
Mar 17 2014 // Bob Dean, former president and CEO of Houston-based Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LP, has received a posthumous award for his unparalleled service through the years.The Independent Insurance Agents of Houston (IIAH)...
Mar 17 2014 // Are you a young insurance agent, 40 years old or younger? Do you know a young insurance agent?Insurance Journal is searching for young insurance agents to participate in this year’s Young Insurance Agents Opinion...
Mar 14 2014 // Lloyd’s broker, Kinetic Insurance Brokers Limited announced that it has “entered into a multi-million pound underwriting agreement with Gable Insurance AG to underwrite Specialist Commercial Surety Bonds within...
Mar 13 2014 // The Senate today went along with the House of Representatives by passing a bill to reverse flood insurance reforms and curb flood insurance premium increases.The Senate approved H.R. 3370, the “Homeowner Flood...
Mar 13 2014 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies fell in 2013, with 248 reported transactions in the United States and Canada, according to a new semi-annual survey by OPTIS Partners, an investment banking and financial...
Mar 13 2014 // “Independent insurance brokers, attending the Brokerslink Asia Pacific regional conference in Thailand,” have been advised to “grasp with both hands the significant opportunities generated by the...
Mar 12 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma named Denise Johnson to lead the association upon the retirement of long time IIAO President/CEO Dan Ramsey.Johnson will join the IIAO on June 1 and take over the leadership...
Mar 12 2014 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a Tampa, Fla.-based national wholesaler and managing general agent, announced the expansion of their Staten Island, N.Y., operations with the addition of Eric Finkelstein as a...
Mar 11 2014 // A property/casualty insurance pre-licensing course will be offered in Louisiana April 4-5 and April 11-12 at McNeese State University.The classes will be held from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and are offered in partnership with by the...
Mar 10 2014 // Swett & Crawford, part of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford, named Jeff Bianchi as sales leader for its Woodland Hills, Calif. office. Bianchi will continue to be based in Swett’s San Francisco office and will...
Mar 10 2014 // The end of the world is coming. The world of Windows XP that is.A significant event is happening in the technology industry that will affect insurance agents. On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP....
Mar 10 2014 // Several turbulent years of increased claims, more regulation and additional oversight of directors and officers have not deterred carriers from the directors and officers (D&O) liability segment. As more carriers beef...
Mar 10 2014 // With few exceptions, an application is a necessary document to secure a proposal or to bind coverage, and can actually possess tremendous power. When an errors and omissions (E&O) matter develops, all of the various...
Mar 10 2014 // In January 2014, the Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) affiliates in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York conducted their second-annual Market Trends Survey and found that the heralded hard market may not...
Mar 7 2014 // Many breaches in data security may be going unreported by American businesses.That’s according to Kirk Arthur, supervisory special agent for the U.S. Secret Service’s San Francisco field office....
Mar 7 2014 // Insurance software provider Vertafore unveiled its next step cloud and mobile innovations for its premier agency technologies – Vertafore Agency Platform, Sagitta Suite and Vertafore Producer Advantage.The products were...
Mar 7 2014 // One year after enacting reforms designed to reduce the amount of homeowners business in the state’s insurer, state lawmakers are now looking to further shrink Citizens Property Insurance Corp. by targeting its...
Mar 6 2014 // Louisville, Ky.-based insurance broker AgentLink announced it has acquired 100 percent ownership of Consolidated Brokerage Services (CBS) in Indianapolis, Ind.Founded in August of 2005 and originally owned by John Carroll,...