All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 30 2012 // Contingent commission payouts to insurance agencies are estimated to be 12 percent higher in 2012 than 2011, a new study says.The study by the Ward Group also found that carriers are continuing to increase their volume and...
Jan 27 2012 // Time is running out to find out who’s worth what in the independent agency system!Insurance Journal is once again polling insurance agents and brokers nationwide in its annual Agency Salary Survey. Survey results...
Jan 27 2012 // Be careful if you ask Michael Jans, president of Bend, Ore.-based Agency Revolution, about marketing. He may throw the Yellow Pages at you.Jans isn’t a temperamental thug, he’s just passionate about talking...
Jan 27 2012 // Appalachian Underwriters has added three brokers to its property and professional practice group.Shane Holden has 20 years of insurance and risk management experience at the retail level. Most recently, he worked for...
Jan 27 2012 // The H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, parent company of wholesale broker and underwriting manager Burns & Wilcox, has purchased Chesterfield Group Ltd., a London-based insurance broker and underwriting organization with...
Jan 26 2012 // A pair of industry experts espoused the benefits of insurance exchanges and small agencies today and in the future during the recent Insurance Industry Roundtable run by the WIAA Education & Research Foundation in...
Jan 26 2012 // The U.K.-based broker BMS Group said it has opened an office in New York City. BMS Group CEO Carl Beardmore The firm said the Park Avenue office in Manhattan will be the base of Group CEO Carl Beardmore, who will now be...
Jan 26 2012 // Insurance distribution is changing and agents and brokers—retailers and wholesalers—have to define the value they offer and what type of relationships they will have with carriers and customers in the years ahead,...
Jan 26 2012 // U.S. insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of THB Group plc of London.THB, an independent insurance and reinsurance broker and risk management business, serves clients...
Jan 25 2012 // “Listen to me now, understand me later.”State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, gave a well-received Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, chest heaving and heavy on the former California governor’s thick...
Jan 25 2012 // A former Fargo insurance agent has been sentenced to three years in prison and five years on supervised probation for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from three women. Fifty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Neppl was...
Jan 24 2012 // Grass Valley, Calif.-based Networked Insurance Agents has signed on with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Insurance Exchange, a significant step for LexisNexis into the West, the collaborative insurance placement platform...
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
Jan 23 2012 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The soft market is turning, perhaps not dramatically but it is turning, says Jerry Sullivan, chairman, The Sullivan Group, in Los Angeles. If carriers decide they must raise prices, will...
Jan 23 2012 // Woodbury, N.Y.-based Sterling & Sterling appointed Leslie Nylund as president of the insurance brokerage. Nylund will be responsible for the firm’s operations, including sales, employee benefits, client services...
Jan 23 2012 // The economy, the promised-land of a hard insurance market and the need to master technologies dominated discussion at the first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable in Irvine, Calif.The daylong event was attended by 23...
Jan 23 2012 // Be careful if you ask Michael Jans, president of Bend, Ore.-based Agency Revolution, about marketing. He may throw the Yellow Pages at you.Jans isn’t a temperamental thug, he’s just passionate about talking...
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
Jan 23 2012 // Earlier this month, the U.S. Labor Department published its November 2011 data on detailed insurance industry employment figures. These latest figures show that in November, employment at insurance carriers rose overall,...
Jan 23 2012 // A pair of industry experts espoused the benefits of insurance exchanges and small agencies today and in the future during the Western Insurance Agents Association first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable on Nov....