All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 19 2012 // If someone were to hand you a blank check to enhance your bottom line, would you let it sit on your desk and collect dust? Or, would you fill in a number ending with a few zeroes and take some extra cash for doing no extra...
Mar 19 2012 // There is less consensus when it comes to rating the performance of key players in the state’s insurance marketplace, however. Some public officials get better grades than property/casualty insurance executives as a...
Mar 19 2012 // Earlier this month, an appeals court in New York agreed with the lower court’s ruling and said the insurance regulators have the authority to require brokers to disclose the source of their compensation. The rule,...
Mar 19 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Companies said Vanessa Wittman, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, is leaving to take a senior role at online search giant Google. Wittman is expected to assist...
Mar 19 2012 // If someone were to hand you a blank check to enhance your bottom line, would you let it sit on your desk and collect dust? Or would you fill in a number ending with a few zeroes and take some extra cash for doing no extra...
Mar 16 2012 // A director of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York told lawmakers and regulators this week that New Yorkers are dealing with unnecessary hassles when they make flood insurance claims.William Oliver...
Mar 16 2012 // An insurance agent in Oklahoma has been charged with embezzlement, authorities say.Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak and Comanche County District Attorney Fred Smith say an investigation of Amanda Sue Wilson of...
Mar 15 2012 // The Risk & Insurance Management Society is applauding the New York appeals court for upholding the broker disclosure rule.“Consumers deserve the same transparency and information from their insurance brokers...
Mar 15 2012 // A South Dakota sheriff’s deputy and former insurance producer who pleaded guilty in an insurance fraud case has been sentenced to about 2 1/2 months in jail and 2 1/2 years of probation. Forty-two-year-old Rob...
Mar 15 2012 // Brady Polansky has joined Minneapolis, Minn.-based Project CAP — created through alliance of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”), Trusted Choice, state associations...
Mar 12 2012 // I have been analyzing agencies for a long time and I believe it is extremely safe to say that no two agencies are the same. At least I have never found two agencies to be the same. This is the problem with so many popular...
Mar 9 2012 // A former insurance agent who stole more than $1 million from elderly clients has been sentenced to 75 months in prison.Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim was arrested in March 2011 after an investigation by the state insurance...
Mar 9 2012 // Independent global broker BMS Group announced that it has launched a new global construction initiative, to be headed by Gavin Madell, who has over twenty years’ experience in the field.BMS said the new team...
Mar 9 2012 // When it comes to the captive insurance industry, slow and steady growth is just fine with the state of Missouri. But it’s not like the state is reluctant to encourage captives to form or relocate there. Far from...
Mar 8 2012 // Connecticut officials are encouraging other states to consider suing credit-rating agencies that gave high grades to risky mortgage-backed securities that plummeted in value when the housing market collapsed in...
Mar 8 2012 // The widows of two U.S. Border Patrol agents killed in a train accident near Gila Bend have sued the railroad and the irrigation district that owns the land crossed by the tracks.The lawsuit filed in Pima County Superior...
Mar 8 2012 // A former Pittsburg, Kan., insurance agent will have to pay back more than $137,000 to victims of forgery and theft following a Kansas Insurance Department (KID)-led investigation involving non-payment of clients’...
Mar 7 2012 // So much that is said and written about Florida’s insurance climate is negative. Is there anything good to say about Florida’s insurance market?That’s one of the questions in a brief Florida-only survey of...
Mar 7 2012 // Orange, CA, 03/01/12 – The Broker’s Insurance Group (B.I.G) announced the BIGGIE award winners at its inaugural gala on February 23. Over 200 professionals from carriers, suppliers, and agencies came together to...
Mar 7 2012 // The independent insurance agent trade group, Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana Inc., announced a new slate of officers for 2012. They are: President James Mansfield, Mansfield Insurance Agency Inc., Lawrenceburg,...