All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 6 2012 // Protective Specialty Insurance Co. has launched a pair of new errors and omissions products for insurance agents. One product will cater to life insurance agents, and the other will be tailored to property/casualty...
Mar 6 2012 // Markel International announced from its London headquarters that it has acquired the portfolio of business of Quay Underwriting (QU), a managing agent based in Dorset.Markel said QU “provides a wide range of...
Mar 5 2012 // Preferred Concepts LLC, a national insurance program administrator and specialty broker, appointed Georgeanna Munger as vice president to manage the company’s ezumbrella.com business unit. Georgeanna Munger Munger...
Mar 5 2012 // Flower Mound, TX, 03/01/12 – Webcetera, L.P., the company behind the innovative EZLynx® platform, has released a major update to their flagship software. EZLynx® 3.0 is a substantial upgrade to the industry leading...
Mar 5 2012 // Can technology positively impact a billion people in just 10 years? Possibly, if insurance is available.Consider taking a low-use personal automobile — which might sit idle most of the time — and making it available to...
Mar 5 2012 // When Jessica Scorpio, 24, began her quest for insurance for Getaround.com, a peer-to-peer car sharing organization, she ran into a few closed doors.“I definitely spent my whole 22nd year banging on insurance...
Mar 5 2012 // The business of selling earthquake insurance to homeowners may have just gotten a bit easier.The California Earthquake Authority has launched its annual “Marketing Value Program,” in which the quasi-private...
Mar 5 2012 // The number of great insurance agencies is ever-growing and, with few exceptions, these agencies are being headed by great individuals. It is all part of a natural process where the weaker players perish and the strongest...
Mar 5 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. has named John Rossetti vice president of the employee benefits group in the firm’s Albuquerque, N.M. office.Rossetti was previously an account...
Mar 5 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 5 2012 // With interest rates low and looking like they will stay low for some time, property/casualty insurance companies will have to focus on making their profit on underwriting rather than on investments.However, P/C insurers...
Mar 5 2012 // W. Martin Yung has been selected chief executive officer for JDW Insurance, headquartered in El Paso, Texas.Yung is a shareholder and a member of the board of directors. He has served as president of the firm since...
Mar 5 2012 // Linda Hall started as director of Alaska’s Division of Insurance on March 3, 2003, and nine-years later she’s calling it a day as the top authority on insurance in the land of the midnight sun.The state has...
Mar 5 2012 // Officials said the telephone and the Internet have spurred an almost twofold increase in the number of insurance agents licensed to do business in North Dakota in the past decade. State insurance department data show an...
Mar 5 2012 // Agent advocacy may be the number one reason independent insurance agents join professional associations, one veteran agency owner says, but the benefits of participation are many and varied. Powered by...
Mar 5 2012 // Peering across the market, it’s easy to see the telltale signs of a market in transition, the completion of one cycle and the beginning of another. This time around, dusting off the old underwriting “hard...
Mar 5 2012 // Don’t be surprised if in the not-too-distant future on a television commercial you see Flo, adorned in her white apron, drop her price scanner and pick up a smartphone, on which she takes a picture of a...
Mar 1 2012 // More than a third of New Jersey counties and towns are wasting millions of dollars on health insurance brokers and premiums when switching to the state’s plan would be cheaper, a new audit has found.The report from...
Mar 1 2012 // It hasn’t been the best of times for America’s Main Street businesses. Often facing overwhelming competition from big box stores, many small businesses face an uphill battle from the outset and more than a few...
Mar 1 2012 // Data protection agencies in European countries have concluded Google Inc.’s new privacy policy is in breach of European law, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said on Thursday.France’s data protection...