All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2012 // Among the top recommendations by a consulting firm hired by Texas insurance regulators to investigate and report on ways to restructure the state’s property insurer of last resort in coastal areas is to reduce the...
Oct 2 2012 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group L.L.C. announced Monday that its wholesale arm R-T Specialty L.L.C. has acquired assets and operations of Atlantic Star Intermediaries L.L.C. Terms of the transaction were not...
Oct 2 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) announced that Vaughn Graham of Tulsa, Okla., was installed as the newest member of IIABA’s Executive Committee at the...
Oct 2 2012 // London-based Catlin Underwriting Agencies Limited, a unit of Catlin Group Limited, announced that it is studying how technological innovations could improve service to brokers and clients in the Lloyd’s market.As...
Oct 2 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit of a ruling that allowed black brokers who accused it of bias to pursue their lawsuit as a class action.Without...
Oct 2 2012 // Stockbrokers involved in the planned stock market listing of British insurer Direct Line reported good interest from private investors in London’s first big retail share offering for six years, although some...
Oct 2 2012 // London-based R K Harrison Insurance Brokers and Conosur Corredores de Seguros Y Reaseguros (Conosur) announced that they have reached an exclusive agreement to cooperate on all new business emanating from Chile. The...
Sep 28 2012 // Maritime Program Group has created a new brokerage division and expanded their western facilities with the addition of three professionals and an office in Gladstone, Ore.Ron Hayes, director of brokerage, and Lina Jayme,...
Sep 26 2012 // By David Connolly President iQ ConsultingAn excerpt from an interview with a successful agency owner DC: Historically, what has consistently been the biggest challenge you face as an agency owner?Owner: “In our...
Sep 26 2012 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, appointed Amy Hotaling as vice...
Sep 26 2012 // A group of Texas-based managing general agents/brokers has formed the Texas Wholesale Insurance Coalition (TWIC) with the goal of enhancing their markets, attracting Texas retail agency partners, and gaining economic...
Sep 26 2012 // Chicago-based Hub International Limited announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Carrión, Laffitte & Casellas, Inc. (CLC), a full service insurance brokerage firm headquartered in San Juan,...
Sep 25 2012 // Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana (PIA), a statewide association of local, independent insurance agents, is the newest sponsor of the AIMS Society’s Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation...
Sep 25 2012 // A new study concludes that firefighters aren’t capable of responding to calls within nationally recommended time frames in certain parts of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County in New Mexico.The Albuquerque Journal...
Sep 25 2012 // The White House is preparing to direct federal agencies to develop voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for owners of power, water and other critical infrastructure facilities, according to people who said they had seen...
Sep 24 2012 // A Cincinnati, Ohio-area insurance agent has been sentenced for theft from Hamilton County residents, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced.Former Ohio insurance agent Cecil Young, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to four...
Sep 24 2012 // Starting a new business in a healthy economy is a challenge. Starting a new business — and succeeding — in a difficult economy is next to impossible. Yet that’s what Austin, Texas-based Walker Myers Insurance...
Sep 24 2012 // Congratulations to the winners of Insurance Journal‘s “2012 Best Independent Insurance Agencies to Work For” survey!As their employees put it: these agencies are doing all the right things. They provide...
Sep 24 2012 // IBA West is debuting InsurFEST next month in San Diego, Calif., a conference that focuses on leadership.The conference also affords IBA West members the opportunity to vote on a name change. The group, which represents...
Sep 24 2012 // The votes have been tallied and the results are in for the “2012 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For” survey by Insurance Journal. The owners of the “Best Agencies to Work For in 2012”...