All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2023 // Four Miami insurance agents have been charged with submitting false life insurance applications and collecting commissions from John Hancock Life Insurance Co., state officials said Monday.Alexander Faneites, Nicolas...
Oct 23 2023 // Jensten, the London-based independent insurance broking and underwriting group, has completed the acquisition of Berns Brett following regulatory approval.Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. With offices in...
Oct 20 2023 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois ((IA of IL) presented awards to top agents and agencies during the association’s annual convention held in Peoria last week.Connor & Gallagher OneSource (CGO) of Lisle...
Oct 18 2023 // Allyson Padilla Named President of the Independent Insurance Agents of IllinoisAllyson Padilla of Blank’s Insurance Agency in Olney, Illinois, has been elected and was formally installed as the President of the...
Oct 18 2023 // King Insurance Partners, a brokerage headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, has continued its steady growth with the acquisition of Thetford Insurance Services in Tennessee and Kentucky. Thetford, a boutique firm based in...
Oct 18 2023 // Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Washington, D.C.-based Clements Worldwide.Clements is an international insurance broker serving expats, diplomats and military personnel as...
Oct 17 2023 // Global insurance broker NFP announced it has acquired Benefits & Co., the Florida benefits business of Clearscope, a benefits services and software firm with offices in New York and New Jersey.Based in Sunrise,...
Oct 16 2023 // Tampa-based Slide Insurance, which has made a practice of assuming Florida policies from other insurers in the last two years, said it has acquired renewal rights to 86,000 homeowner policies from Farmers Insurance.Farmers...
Oct 16 2023 // Independent insurance agents report unprecedented satisfaction with their carrier partners, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t keeping their options open due to the rising cost of premiums.According to the J.D....
Oct 16 2023 // The defendants in the corruption case involving U.S. Senator Robert Menendez include a former New Jersey insurance broker who was convicted of premium fraud in 2011 and lost his insurance license.Jose Uribe allegedly got...
Oct 16 2023 // Connecting the insurance ecosystem through the power of technology could answer the decades-old problem of duplicate entry for agents. Agents still must navigate through multiple carrier portals to complete a single quote,...
Oct 13 2023 // Big multistate operators often get the bend-over-backward treatment from all service providers, but what are insurance brokers looking to get the same treatment for their small-to-midsize client to do?It turns out,...
Oct 13 2023 // A media entrepreneur is trying to connect young people disturbed by the impact of social media on mental health with older power players to fight for change in how tech companies do business.The newly-formed Sustainable...
Oct 6 2023 // Global Insurance Brokers, a major provider of risk management, insurance, and reinsurance broking services in the Indian subcontinent, announced its acquisition by Aon plc.Financial details of the deal, which is subject to...
Oct 6 2023 // A New Jersey insurance agent and the owner of painting company were arrested this week on allegations of insurance fraud.Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll and Morris County Chief of Detectives Robert McNally...
Oct 4 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Insurance carriers often have their hands full trying to verify and make sure that all of their in-house and external distribution partners are in compliance with every...
Oct 3 2023 // Independent insurance agents report unprecedented satisfaction with their carrier partners, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t keeping their options open due to the rising cost of premiums.According to the J.D....
Oct 3 2023 // Almost two years after Progressive Insurance announced it would stop renewing some homeowners policies in Florida, Flo and crew have dropped another 100,000 HO and landlord policies in the state.The insurance giant and...
Oct 2 2023 // The presence of family run businesses continues to play a major role in the U.S. economy. From rural mom and popyshops to international conglomerates, family businesses are at the foundation of our economy. Ford Motor...
Oct 2 2023 // The votes are in for the 2023 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal.Employees in 2023 highlighted the importance of competitive salaries, employee benefits, training and education,...