All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2013 // Speaking at the 1st Asia Insurance Brokers’ Summit in Singapore, José Fonseca, Chairman of BrokersLink and CEO of the MDS Group, told delegates that independent brokers can become the powerhouses of the global...
Feb 25 2013 // Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series to explain insurers’ requirements for building updates and to help agents advise clients on mitigating risks inherent in older buildings. Later articles...
Feb 25 2013 // Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling...
Feb 25 2013 // Recently re-elected North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is more focused on reform of the homeowners insurance market than he is on auto insurance. As was the case four years ago when he first assumed...
Feb 25 2013 // Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance AgencyThree Minnesota insurance agencies — Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud — have joined forces to become...
Feb 25 2013 // Monster Insurance, OneBeacon InsuranceMarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, announced that MarketScout subsidiary, Monster Insurance, entered into an agreement...
Feb 25 2013 // Managing sales in an independent agency is a team sport. From top level managers to office and support staff – every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win the sales game.When one person fails...
Feb 25 2013 // Sometimes, independent insurance agents can get too sophisticated for their own good.I was reminded of this recently. My agency is fairly large, and I like to think that it is on the cutting-edge in many areas, such as...
Feb 22 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the department’s top fraud and enforcement cases for 2012.During the calendar year, the department processed 7,274 allegations of...
Feb 21 2013 // Charles Schwab Corp. can ban its clients from bringing class action lawsuits, a securities industry regulatory panel ruled Thursday in a sweeping decision that is likely to influence other U.S. brokerage firms to follow...
Feb 21 2013 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma is requesting members to submit questions for a panel discussion on proposed changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system.IIAO will host a panel to discuss...
Feb 20 2013 // Atlanta-based benefits broker Digital Insurance has acquired Benefit Services & Design (BSD) of Raleigh, North Carolina. The 30-year-old BSD has been merged with the Raleigh office of Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA), a...
Feb 19 2013 // The New York Court of Appeals recently found that the insured’s failure to read the insurance policy does not bar claims for broker negligence in failing to procure requested insurance.Almost one hundred years ago...
Feb 19 2013 // Jeff Dailey, chief executive officer of Los Angeles, Calif.-based Farmers Group Inc., on Tuesday announced several executive leadership team appointments he says better aligns the leadership team around Farmers core...
Feb 18 2013 // Two North Carolina men have been sentenced for their roles in a massive crop insurance fraud. A federal judge last Wednesday sentenced insurance agent William Larry Rogers to 9 years in prison for conspiring to make false...
Feb 14 2013 // Ironshore Inc. has acquired Excess Risk Reinsurance (ERR) Inc., a managing general underwriter specializing in the Employer Stop Loss insurance sector.ERR will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ironshore Insurance...
Feb 14 2013 // Acknowledging that sometimes banks chisel clients and bank employees chisel banks may sound obvious to you, but for the Federal Reserve this is a pretty big step forward.Jeremy Stein, a member of the Board of Governors of...
Feb 11 2013 // Florida lawmakers’ first draft of a property reform emphasizes depopulating and diverting policies from Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-backed property insurer that has 1.3 million policyholders.The...
Feb 11 2013 // A 2011 decision by Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner to return a federal health care grant came just days after a prominent conservative encouraged state officials to reconsider their approach to President Barack...
Feb 11 2013 // The year is a prime time for agents and brokers to begin preparing their clients for Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements coming in 2014.Don’t assume that you can wait until the beginning of the plan year to...