All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2011 // The Allstate Corp. said it has obtained all required regulatory approvals and closed its acquisition of Esurance and Answer Financial from White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd.The purchase price was approximately $1...
Oct 7 2011 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced it has acquired S. A. Freerks & Associates Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Mo. Founded in 1979, S. A. Freerks & Associates (SAFA) is a managing general agent and wholesale...
Oct 7 2011 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Michigan-based JM Wilson Corp. as recipient of its 2011 Managing General Agency of the Year Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in...
Oct 6 2011 // Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced it has added 11 new member agencies from the Midwest. The new Midwest agency members include: Insurance Agency of Michigan of Waterford, Mich.; Independent Insurance...
Oct 6 2011 // A Massachusetts independent agents group said it is confident that banning auto insurers’ use of credit scores and other socioeconomic factors will become a state law in coming months.The Massachusetts Association of...
Oct 4 2011 // Ark Assurance Group in Tyler, Texas, has joined SBMP Inc. Ark Assurance was established in 1977 and is owned by Criss Sudduth and John Hinsley Jr. SBMP is a group of agencies based in Texas and currently has 30 locations...
Oct 4 2011 // The U.S. House of Representatives today passed legislation that keeps the government – and the federal flood insurance program– running until Nov. 18, 2011.The House vote (352-66) extends the National Flood...
Oct 4 2011 // Lockton Companies, a Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered insurance broker, hired Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard for its Washington, D.C., brokerage team as a producer. Prior to joining Lockton, she was construction practice leader in...
Oct 4 2011 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that makes several changes to various state insurance code sections regarding agent licensing and training, administrative processes and previously enacted legislation.Assembly...
Oct 4 2011 // Great Northern Insurance of Sterling Heights, Mich., and Davidson Insurance Agency of West Plains, Mo., have joined the ISU Network, the San Francisco-based organization announced.Established in 2010, ISU Great Northern...
Oct 3 2011 // LexisNexis Risk Solutions has acquired the Sales Portal from MarshBerry, the insurance consulting and merger and acquisition advisory firm. The Sales Portal is a sales management automation tool used by larger brokerages...
Oct 3 2011 // Wholesale broker Burns & Wilcox has purchased Kimbrell Insurance Group Inc., a wholesale broker and underwriting manager in South Carolina.Kimbrell was founded in 1986 and is located in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area....
Oct 3 2011 // Lord Peter Levene, chairman of Lloyd’s, is leaving the company after nine years at the helm. He is the longest serving Lloyd’s chairman in 125 years and oversaw tremendous change at the international insurance...
Oct 3 2011 // At the same time they are trying to figure out what their customers, markets and the economy are going to do, today’s intermediaries are also having to navigate changing relationships among carriers, wholesalers and...
Oct 3 2011 // Many businesses and homeowners are struggling to determine the extent of their damages from what is shaping up to be the worst year in Texas history for fire losses.In handling the crisis, policyholders must quickly...
Oct 3 2011 // Sports and leisure activities are one of the most ubiquitous pass times the world over. Whether you participate, or just watch, virtually no one is far away from some form of sporting activity. It’s why sports, as a...
Oct 3 2011 // Thirty-three year-old Scotsman Paul Thomson was on the last leg of his “five-year plan” to get into the insurance business in the U.S. He went through Harvard Business School. He got the financial backing of...
Oct 3 2011 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices Ltd. (NAPSLO) began serving the surplus lines industry and its wholesale broker members in 1975. Just six years into the association’s history a young...
Oct 3 2011 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented the Federal Legislator of the Year Award to U.S. Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., at its annual convention in Indianapolis.Biggert currently serves as...
Oct 3 2011 // A Massachusetts independent agents group said it is confident that a ban on auto insurers’ use of credit scores and other socioeconomic factors will become a state law in coming months.The Massachusetts Association...