All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2014 // Insurance software firm Vertafore has formed a partnership with flood insurance policy processing firm StoneRiver National Flood Services (NFS) to provide independent agents a new way to quote and cross-sell flood...
Mar 5 2014 // An insurance agent in northeast Iowa accused of creating fake life insurance policies to make more money has pleaded guilty to mail fraud. U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau says in a press release that 46-year-old Melissa...
Mar 5 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Tudor Risk Services, LLC located in Woburn, Mass. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 2009, Tudor Risk Services is a retail insurance broker...
Mar 4 2014 // The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday evening passed legislation to curb some of the premium increases in the nation’s flood insurance program that have been causing “sticker shock” for property...
Mar 4 2014 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), the global wholesale and reinsurance broker, announced a repositioning and rebranding of its marine insurance business in Asia.“Effective from 3rd March 2014, Latitude Brokers...
Feb 26 2014 // A 46-year-old insurance agent in northeast Iowa has been accused of creating fake life insurance policies so she could make more in commissions. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier says Melissa Williams, of Dike, is charged...
Feb 24 2014 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage hired Robert “Buddy” Taylor as casualty broker in the firm’s North Dallas office. Taylor, whose expertise has been in the trucking excess/umbrella arena, has more than 30...
Feb 24 2014 // In the first month of 2014, the 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 be launching as...
Feb 24 2014 // As the $4.2 billion marina industry continues to expand, independent agents who seek to leverage their specialization and partner with experienced carriers have a significant opportunity to grow their businesses.With the...
Feb 24 2014 // To be a high-performing firm, one needs to emulate what the best firms are doing and the traits that bring high-performance to fruition.This article focuses on the top five characteristics the best agencies have in common....
Feb 24 2014 // For the second year in a row, salaries and total compensation rose in independent insurance agencies across the nation. More agencies are offering health insurance and benefits offerings seem to be up – although at a...
Feb 24 2014 // This issue of Insurance Journal brings you the 8th Annual Agency Salary Survey results.Nearly 2,000 agency owners, producers and agency staff responded to this year’s exclusive survey, all wanting to know who’s...
Feb 24 2014 // Those in the insurance industry have another errors and omission (E&O) risk to consider these days, and they have technology to thank for it. Anyone in the insurance industry that possesses, stores, transmits or...
Feb 24 2014 // Laurie Infantino has been named education director of Insurance Journal‘s Academy of Insurance. The insurance education professional will focus on the quality of the instructors and the education content offered by...
Feb 24 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) named West Mayor Tommy Muska of Muska Insurance Services as its newest Trusted Choice Hometown Hero.Hometown Hero recognizes Trusted Choice insurance agents who go above and...
Feb 24 2014 // Texas Insurance Commissioner, Julia RathgeberTexas will be privatizing many functions in its workers’ compensation system if a proposal to adopt the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) Basic Manual,...
Feb 24 2014 // At a recent public hearing, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office expressed its opposition to the workers’ compensation average rate increase proposal and argued that the rate should be lowered...
Feb 21 2014 // Agents and brokers who are not selling trade credit insurance – also known as receivables insurance – are missing huge opportunities but also opening themselves up to errors and omission (E&O) exposures, according...
Feb 21 2014 // Channel Harvest Research, in partnership with Insurance Journal, has launched a new study of the independent agency system, probing agents’ attitudes toward insurance carrier relationships and, in particular, the...
Feb 20 2014 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers Association of Los Angeles recently installed new officers and directors for 2014. The new IIABA-LA lineup for officers: Ryan Wunderlich, Hub International Insurance –...