All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 16 2013 // A former Bixby, Okla., insurance agent has been sentenced to ten months home confinement after pleading guilty to wire fraud that allowed him to illegally take commissions earned by other insurance agents, the Oklahoma...
Jul 16 2013 // Warwick, RI April 2013 – Astonish, a leading technology, digital marketing, and training provider for insurance agencies, encourages local insurance agency principals, CEOs, and presidents in California and surrounding...
Jul 15 2013 // Reinsurance brokers Holborn Corp. of New York and W.J. Lehrke Co. of Edina, Minnesota, have agreed to merge.Details were not disclosed. The combined firm is operating under the Holborn name, and all current Lehrke...
Jul 12 2013 // United Valley Insurance Services and Leavitt Group Enterprises have agreed to a merger, giving the two firms a collective 150 insurance agencies and counting under one owner.The deal was announced late Friday. Under the...
Jul 12 2013 // Georgia’s top insurance regulator and two senior staffers accepted $100-per-head meals and, in one case, a round of golf last month funded by the industry they oversee, according to recent financial disclosures.That...
Jul 11 2013 // The Kaufman Financial Group named Denis Brady president of Burns & Wilcox Brokerage, an independent business unit that will be solely dedicated to wholesale insurance brokerage. Brady joins Burns & Wilcox Brokerage...
Jul 11 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Delia (Dee) Randall, personal lines ACSR at Duncan Fraser & Bridges Insurance Agency in Pampa, the Accredited Customer Service Representative (ACSR) of the...
Jul 10 2013 // Could it happen to us? Tourism, manufacturing and resources companies surveying an unpredictable world are increasingly having to consider insurance against political risks, and the insurance industry is gearing up to...
Jul 9 2013 // Insurance and employee benefits advisor, Lockton, has opened a new operation in Milwaukee, Wis., appointing two veteran employee benefits consultants as senior executives.John O’Connor and Bill Crowley have joined...
Jul 8 2013 // A Harris County District Court has convicted Leon “Randy” Sinclair III, of Houston, of first-degree felony Misapplication of Fiduciary Property, according to the Texas Department of Insurance. Sinclair was...
Jul 3 2013 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance — the new commercial P/C insurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway — appointed Lori Spoon Rafkin as senior vice president, customer and broker engagement. Spoon Rafkin was...
Jul 2 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) announced that Dallas independent insurance agent Bill Henry, chairman and CEO of MHBT Inc., is the winner of the Drex Foreman Award presented at IIAT’s 116th Annual...
Jul 1 2013 // This post is part of a series on insurance marketing and training sponsored by Astonish.Aaaaaah! Nope, that is not the call of Tarzan that you hear. That is the sound of excitement coming from myself and insurance agents...
Jul 1 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Don Whitaker, president and owner of Whitaker Insurance Associates Inc. in San Antonio, to serve as chair for 2013-2014 during IIAT’s 116th Annual Conference...
Jul 1 2013 // Hispanic market-focused insurance agency network Confie Seguros announced the acquisition of CW Baker Insurance Agency and Lewiston Insurance Agency, two providers of standard and preferred personal insurance located in...
Jul 1 2013 // Steadfast Group Ltd., Australia’s largest network of insurance brokers, plans to raise as much as A$562.8 million ($515 million) in the country’s biggest initial public offering since 2010.The Sydney-based...
Jul 1 2013 // Carriers can be instrumental in helping agencies grow through referrals, expanded coverages, and clear business line or geographic expansion planning. And despite the challenges facing the industry and the broader economy,...
Jul 1 2013 // I wrote two columns in the summer of 2012 that elicited more online comments and emails than any article, out of the hundreds, that I’ve written.One column’s subject was that producers are paid to produce. If...
Jul 1 2013 // The past two years have seen interesting developments unfold on both sides of the Atlantic with regard to managing general agents and their representation, albeit electing to move in slightly different directions.In May,...
Jun 28 2013 // A former Dickinson, N.D., insurance agent convicted of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a client has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. A jury in April found Scott Biggs guilty of five counts of felony theft...