All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2011 // Atlanta-headquartered wholesale intermediary Swett & Crawford hired Chris Hendrix as a new casualty broker at its Philadelphia-North office. Hendrix comes to Swett from Southern Cross Underwriters (CRC) where he spent...
Nov 1 2011 // A tax lien program that has collected more than $2 million in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers’ compensation premium payments, Ohio Lt. Governor and Dept. of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced. The...
Nov 1 2011 // A lawsuit against Charles Schwab Corp. over auction-rate securities that was filed by former New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was thrown out by a state court judge.The 2009 lawsuit accused the San Francisco-based...
Nov 1 2011 // The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) said it is offering insurance agents free training seminars on flood insurance in several locations across Pennsylvania.The seminars will cover basic insurance issues and also...
Oct 31 2011 // The Halloween night is filled with frightful risks. Fortunately. insurance agents can play a helpful role by advising their clients about coverage and accident prevention.• The Insurance Information Institute says...
Oct 31 2011 // As real estate professionals know well, most signs point to slow progress in real estate industry growth. Professionals are left to manage their costs, make cuts where possible, keep up-to-date on industry trends, fight...
Oct 31 2011 // Insurance broker William Gallagher Associates Inc. will pay $1.7 million as a settlement with Connecticut regulators over allegations that it overcharged a client.The state regulators accused the Massachusetts-based broker...
Oct 31 2011 // BrokersLink, a major independent international insurance broker network, announced that new brokers had joined the organization in Israel, Indonesia, South Korea and the Caribbean. Its members’ managed premium...
Oct 28 2011 // Aon Corp. reported a profit jump for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011. Net income increased 38 percent to $198 million, compared to $144 million for the prior year quarter.Total corporate revenue increased 51 percent...
Oct 28 2011 // Between 2005 and 2010, more than 350 million personal records were exposed in reported data breaches alone. Those numbers include data, privacy and security breaches by cyber-criminals accessing sensitive company and...
Oct 28 2011 // The London market’s ambition to enable brokers to trade globally with it more easily has taken a significant step closer with phase one of e-Accounts now operational.Brokers using the system can “send and...
Oct 27 2011 // The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) has agreed to a request from state lawmakers to withdraw the ballot initiative it filed in August to prohibit the use of credit scoring, education, and occupational...
Oct 27 2011 // Insurance agencies are under pressure to quickly adopt new technologies in order to keep up with competitors, according to a newcomer to the insurance industry who is now positioned to help agencies do just that.Reid...
Oct 25 2011 // Workers’ compensation rates decreased an average of 1.1 percent and a median of 1.5 percent at renewal during the third quarter, according to Marsh. The New York-headquartered brokerage firm released the data on Oct....
Oct 24 2011 // Barbara Carey has joined Tustin, Calif.-based managing general agent Yates as an underwriter and broker. Carey spent the last eight years as senior broker and vice president of another California wholesale brokerage. Carey...
Oct 24 2011 // A Minnehaha County, South Dakota, grand jury has indicted a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy on four counts of grand theft.Court documents say that while licensed as an insurance producer, 41-year-old Rob Hotchkiss...
Oct 21 2011 // A Berks County, Pennsylvania, resident has been charged with theft of more than $255,000 in insurance premiums from clients.The charges were brought against Joseph Maurer, 58, who owned and operated Commonwealth...
Oct 20 2011 // Today may be a good day to sell disaster insurance in the Western United States.A massive earthquake drill set for 10:20 a.m. PDT today is designed to raise awareness of the disasters that can be posed by a massive...
Oct 20 2011 // Misty Baker has joined the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas as director of health insurance information. In this newly created role, Baker will serve as a member resource for agency personnel working in life and...
Oct 20 2011 // Vicki Cota has been named underwriter/broker at Gumtree Wholesale Insurance Brokers Inc. in its Springfield, Mo., office. She previously served as professional liability underwriter for Bohrer-Croxdale & McAdoo...