All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 11 2013 // Weak computer passwords and vulnerable software have left some Kansas state agencies vulnerable to hackers gaining access to confidential data or internal breaches, according to a new information technology audit.Some of...
Dec 11 2013 // Agency producers are not spending enough of their time on the sales-related activities that they and their managers think they ideally should.Instead they are spending more time than they think they should on...
Dec 10 2013 // New research by market research consultancy London-based Finaccord forecasts that the market for professional indemnity insurance across ten European countries – namely, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,...
Dec 10 2013 // When insurance agent Kelly Fristoe recently spent 30 minutes helping a client pick a mid-level health plan and the federal marketplace website froze, he called the government’s hotline and tried to finish the...
Dec 9 2013 // ING U.S. Inc. will begin selling fixed annuities through Allstate Corp. agencies as the largest publicly traded U.S. auto and home insurer ceases to offer its own brand of the retirement products.The deal gives ING U.S....
Dec 6 2013 // Trinity Risk LLC, a program manager and wholesale broker specializing in owner operator lines of insurance, has opened a new office in Kansas City, Mo., and hired Amy Milburn as account executive. An experienced trucking...
Dec 6 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin and the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. joined efforts in December to collect food and money for the Capital Area Food Bank located in Austin, Texas.Food and money were...
Dec 6 2013 // Southwest Insurance Agents Alliance named Patrick Zerarka regional vice president of western Arizona and southern Nevada.Zerarka is responsible for membership service, development, and insurance company relations for all...
Dec 6 2013 // Revenue and earnings growth for U.S. insurance brokers in 2014 is expected to improve modestly over 2013, according to a report by Fitch Ratings.Fitch issued a stable rating outlook and positive sector outlook for the...
Dec 5 2013 // Five Star Professional has named local Naperville insurance agent, Thomas D. Evans from Esser Hayes Insurance Group, as a recipient of the 2013 Five Star Home/Auto Insurance Professionals Award. This is the second year...
Dec 5 2013 // Northwest Georgia insurance agent Bruce Thompson has been elected to represent District 14 in the Georgia state Senate.Thompson won about 68 percent of votes in Tuesday’s general election runoff over Cartersville...
Dec 5 2013 // In 1981, President Ronald Reagan instructed federal agencies that they could issue regulations only after demonstrating that their benefits justified their costs. With modest changes, Reagan’s successors, both...
Dec 3 2013 // Carrollton, Texas-based Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a provider of agency marketing, rating and management software and services, announced that AgentCon, its user group conference, will be held for the first...
Dec 3 2013 // Despite significant optimism about key market fundamentals, year-over-year agency valuation increases and agency performance metrics, ownership perpetuation continues to be the biggest long-term challenge to...
Dec 3 2013 // ECC Insurance Brokers Inc. named Debbie Elliott senior vice president of financial services. Elliott will be in charge of opening and developing the ECC office in Denver, Colo. Before ECC Elliot was the assistant vice...
Dec 2 2013 // Chicago-based national wholesale insurance broker R-T Specialty said it has completed its merger with another wholesale broker Westrope, based in Kansas City, Missouri. The deal was first announced Nov. 1. Terms were not...
Dec 2 2013 // The insurance industry’s Real Time/Download Campaign, which aims to improve workflows for independent agencies, has named Elizabeth Kittell as campaign director. Liz Kittell Kittell has independent agency and...
Dec 2 2013 // Insurance organizations that are local or regional are a part of the largest segment of employers in the American economy. Why should they exist and succeed in a world where bigger is associated with better?Their success...
Dec 2 2013 // Suppose you walked into a store to look for a new television. If the store only carried one brand, would you shop there? Of course not, but that’s just what today’s insurance behemoths want you to do when you...
Dec 2 2013 // Agencies involved in the sales and service of employee benefits know that the issue of errors and omissions (E&O) is very real — and that proper steps must be taken to minimize that exposure. Many in the employee...