All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 29 2011 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Harleysville Insurance announced on Thursday, Sept. 29, that they have agreed to a merger.Nationwide Mutual will acquire Harleysville Group for $760 million. Nationwide Mutual will pay...
Sep 29 2011 // Monsanto Co. has lost a bid to close part of a lawsuit alleging the company caused health injuries to residents living near a plant that made the Vietnam War-era U.S. military defoliant “Agent Orange.”Monsanto,...
Sep 29 2011 // Xchanging, the London-based business process and technology services provider and integrator, announced that it has “gained full control of Xchanging Broking Services Limited, the Enterprise Partnership it formed...
Sep 28 2011 // San Diego, Calif.-based Align Financial Group LLC has partnered with private equity firm Excellere Partners, of Denver, to form Personable Holdings Inc., an independent, non-standard auto insurance provider.Personable...
Sep 28 2011 // Northeastern independent agents with Harleysville appointments said they are leery about the reported Nationwide/Harleysville deal and have lots of questions.According to a report by Bloomberg last Friday, giant Nationwide...
Sep 28 2011 // The three major credit-rating agencies won the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that five Ohio pension funds lost hundreds of millions of dollars on risky mortgage debt because they relied on flawed ratings that made the...
Sep 28 2011 // Imperial Holdings’ shares plunged as much as 75 percent Wednesday, a day after federal investigators raided the offices of the company, which makes lump-sum payments to buy life insurance policies and structured...
Sep 27 2011 // A Metairie, La., insurance agent has been arrested for insurance fraud, state officials say.The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit arrested Angela Bodenheimer, 49, on one count of insurance fraud, the...
Sep 27 2011 // The National Young Agents Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big ‘I’) has named its state counterpart in Michigan as the 2011 Outstanding Young Agents Committee...
Sep 26 2011 // James LaLonde has been promoted to manager of insurance solutions at Burns & Wilcox.LaLonde previously served as an insurance solutions analyst II in the insurance solutions group of the IT department. He is the lead...
Sep 26 2011 // Former president and co-founder of title insurance agency Liberty Title, Brian Madden, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for misappropriating and embezzling escrow and other client funds from Liberty Title and two...
Sep 22 2011 // Ames & Gough, an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving design professionals, law firms and other professional organizations and consulting firms, has promoted four officers.Ames &...
Sep 21 2011 // The Central Insurance Companies, headquartered in Van Wert, Ohio, was recently awarded the 2010 Best Practices Award of Excellence from the National Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big...
Sep 21 2011 // Independent reinsurance broker Holborn Corp. has appointed Arthur Dougherty as a senior vice president in the firm’s New York City headquarters. Dougherty is an industry veteran, having worked more than three decades...
Sep 21 2011 // A former northeastern Pennsylvania insurance executive has been sentenced to 5 1/2 to 16 1/2 years in state prison in what prosecutors said was a pyramid scheme worth at least $7 million. Brian Murray, 68, former head of...
Sep 21 2011 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC) is the largest independent (i.e. privately owned by its employees and private equity funds) global wholesale and reinsurance broker. Over 1,400 professionals work in some 60 offices...
Sep 19 2011 // Houston, Texas“We already knew we were the best place to work. We just wanted to let everyone else know, too.” Gerri Rougeau is echoing what she and her team of 24 staff, 8 producers, and three managers already...
Sep 19 2011 // XL Insurance has made six key appointments to its North America Construction team. The latest additions to XL Insurance’s North America construction team include:Lawrence Lejfer — Vice president and senior...
Sep 19 2011 // Belchertown, Mass.“Our boss is the bomb,” says Michelle Tetrault, her voice barely above a whisper as if she’s afraid of revealing a closely guarded secret. “They broke the mold with him. He’s...
Sep 19 2011 // The results are in from the 2011 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal. Ammerman Insurance Agency, Leesburg, Fla. The Graham Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Mesirow Financial, Chicago,...