All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2013 // This issue salutes the 2013 Best Independent Insurance Agencies to Work For.They all say it’s an honor to be recognized. Given that employees are the ones doing the rating, it is a well-deserved honor. They all say...
Oct 7 2013 // For most lines of insurance business, commission income is growing, and most insurance agents and brokers expect profits to be similar or better in 2013 compared to 2012. That’s according to the 28th Annual Market...
Oct 7 2013 // Professional liability, or errors and omissions as it is also known, is a unique line of business. After all, how many other lines of business have terms like claims made, claims made and reported, retro dates, tail...
Oct 7 2013 // A Marshalltown, Iowa, insurance agent accused of selling customers fake insurance policies has pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.In exchange for the guilty plea four...
Oct 7 2013 // The National Young Agents Committee (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) presented the Young Agents Council of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents...
Oct 4 2013 // Personal lines insurance brokerage Confie Seguros, has acquired three additional brokers — two in New York and one in Texas. Terms were not disclosed.The insurance brokerages acquired are: James S. Sullivan Agency and...
Oct 4 2013 // American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. has announced the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited.After Fairfax increased its offer, American Safety shareholders...
Oct 4 2013 // The insurance industry may have given the world a new word – “trialogue,” meaning a three way conversation. Oddly enough the first person to use it at the Federation of European Risk Management...
Oct 3 2013 // If and when the federal government resumes operations, a multistate producer licensing reform bill long pushed by the country’s insurance agent lobby could be among the few bipartisan pieces of business Congress...
Oct 3 2013 // U.S. Risk Pro, a division national MGA and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., and Western World Insurance Group have launched a new program for private company directors and officers liability. This...
Oct 3 2013 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that 13 of its 52 member agencies have been recognized as 2013 “Best Practices” agencies by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of...
Oct 3 2013 // On the same day that he turned over the presidency of FERMA to Julia Graham, London-based broker MDS announced that “Jorge Luzzi has been appointed as Executive President of Herco Global, the risk management company...
Oct 2 2013 // A study by a handful of university professors in Colorado claims user-based insurance tracking programs installed in millions of vehicles can collect data that shows where drivers are going, unbeknownst to most users of...
Oct 1 2013 // Insurance agents are still waiting to be convinced Idaho’s insurance exchange will benefit their businesses, though the board that established this Internet marketplace for individual and small business coverage...
Oct 1 2013 // Homeowners’ insurance needs to be more standardized because customers are confused about what their policies protect, New York’s financial regulator said.Few fully understand all the complexities of their...
Sep 30 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company announced last week that the company is planning to hire new insurance agents in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. The insurer would hire approximately 455 new...
Sep 30 2013 // Insurance agents who only focus on homeowners insurance customers are missing a golden opportunity to build long-term relationships with renter customers as their insurance needs grow due to life or circumstance...
Sep 30 2013 // New Hampshire independent agent Thomas J. Minkler has been inaugurated as the new chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”), with David Walker as...
Sep 26 2013 // Insurance Commissioner is inviting North Dakota’s insurance agents to attend the insurance department’s annual agent forums, scheduled for Oct. 7–11.Hamm, along with four other insurance department staff...
Sep 26 2013 // A Marshalltown, Iowa, insurance agent accused of selling customers fake insurance policies has pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.In exchange for the guilty plea four...