All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2012 // Need for Risk Mitigation Grows Along With Wider AdoptionInsurance agencies are in the business of managing risk for clients. But as mobile becomes mainstream, they’re facing new risks of their own. Agencies see...
Oct 22 2012 // I have spoken at more than 200 insurance industry events. I have met with thousands of agency owners, producers and CSRs. In more than two decades of working with insurance agencies, the No. 1 need has never changed:...
Oct 22 2012 // Today, as in the past, agencies need to set the stage for future sales (both new and renewal) with continuous marketing efforts.These actions typically include brand building, highly targeted solicitations and everything...
Oct 22 2012 // TWFGTexas-based The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) announced a substantial expansion of its network, adding new branches in multiple states, from California to Virginia. Many of the new branch managers are former...
Oct 22 2012 // MJ Insurance, Mead & CompanyProperty/casualty and employee benefits agency, MJ Insurance, has acquired Indianapolis-based Mead & Company. Mead & Company is a multi-generational family business operated by the...
Oct 22 2012 // Allstate Insurance Co. is reopening brick-and-mortar offices in Massachusetts after a quarter century of absence.Back in 1987, the Northbrook, Ill.-headquartered Allstate closed its offices in Massachusetts and pulled out...
Oct 22 2012 // Bollinger, The Morville AgencyShort Hills, N.J.-based insurance brokerage Bollinger Inc. has acquired The Morville Agency of Newton, N.J. The Morville Agency specializes in insuring New Jersey public entities. The...
Oct 19 2012 // Members of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) have elected David Purinai, who is president of MSH Insurance in Rocky Mount, N.C., as the association’s new chairman of the board of directors...
Oct 19 2012 // Affinity Healthcare, the consumer, association and group program business of Aon Risk Solutions, is now providing open access to its Affinity Health Care programs to insurance brokers nationwide.Over the years, Aon...
Oct 18 2012 // The number of independent insurance agencies has increased, newer agencies are growing and the system as a whole is dynamic, according to the 2012 Agency Universe Study.The study also documents that independent agencies...
Oct 18 2012 // New York-based brokerage Frank Crystal & Company is rebranding the firm as Crystal & Company. The family-owned and operated firm was established in New York’s Wall Street in 1933 and has since grown to more...
Oct 18 2012 // Independent insurance broker network BrokersLink has added 13, bringing its total to 70 in almost 100 countries, managing premium volumes in excess of $14 billion from 300 offices globally, the company said. The network...
Oct 17 2012 // OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. is selling its Essentia Insurance Co. unit to Markel Corp., according to company announcements this morning.Essentia focuses on the collector car and boat business that the company writes...
Oct 16 2012 // Warwick, RI, 10/16/12 – Astonish is a digital marketing solutions and insurance sales training company focused on growing local insurance agencies into successful, selling powerhouses prepared to serve the modern...
Oct 15 2012 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been elevated...
Oct 15 2012 // The vice mayor of a small Contra Costa County, California, city faces an uncertain future after he was found guilty of felony embezzlement of insurance premiums.Clayton Vice Mayor Joe Medrano is also an insurance broker...
Oct 15 2012 // Carrollton, TX, 10/15/12 – Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a leading provider of marketing, rating and management software and services, announced that more than 2,000 agencies are currently using Insurance...
Oct 14 2012 // The family of a 32-year-old mother of five shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he rode on her car’s hood in suburban San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim against the agency, saying the agent had a...
Oct 14 2012 // If all goes well, workers’ compensation reform in California may yield even greater savings than originally believed.That is according to State Fund President and CEO Tom Rowe, who gave the keynote speech on Friday...
Oct 10 2012 // The property/casualty sector of the insurance industry gave an estimated $500 million in charitable funding in 2010, according to a 2011 study by McKinsey & Company. The research report noted: “Most of this...