All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 14 2011 // Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and its Trusted Choice agents have donated a total of $200,000 to the State Firemen’s and Fire Marshals’ Association (SFFMA) to assist volunteer fire departments.The...
Sep 13 2011 // As fires tear through Texas, businesses and homeowners struggle to determine their losses. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, this year’s fire losses are Texas’ worst on record. The Texas Forest...
Sep 13 2011 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage headquartered in Walnut Creek, Calif., has hired Catherine Torsney to join its Manhattan office in New York as senior vice president and director of its fine...
Sep 12 2011 // Coverage for open houses, mold, network risks and privacy claims are now part of Victor O. Schinnerer & Company’s real estate E&O policy. Schinnerer includes the three new coverages at no additional...
Sep 9 2011 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak is seeking a waiver on a major provision of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Doak requested an adjustment from the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
Sep 9 2011 // A Fargo, N.D., insurance agent accused of using client money for personal matters has lost his state license. North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm said he had revoked the license of Jeffrey Neppl. He said Neppl...
Sep 9 2011 // Independent agent Joyce Sigler has been named co-chair of the Real Time/Download Campaign.Sigler is vice president of administration at Jones & Wenner, an insurance agency in Fairlawn, Ohio. In her role with the...
Sep 9 2011 // Nearly all of the proposed questions for Massachusetts’ 2012 state ballot have been given preliminary approval.Attorney General Martha Coakley certified Wednesday 23 of the 31 initiative petitions filed with her...
Sep 9 2011 // The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA), a non-profit making organization founded to represent UK Managing General Agents, was officially launched on the 1st of September with an initial 40 Full Members...
Sep 6 2011 // Insurance Noodle, part of Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has added has added the management and professional liability products of ACE Commercial Risk Services to the offerings of its online quoting...
Sep 5 2011 // David J. Bresnahan has been named president of Lexington Insurance Co., the surplus lines unit of Chartis Insurance. He is succeeding Peter Eastwood, who is moving into his new role as president and chief executive officer...
Sep 5 2011 // The Minnesota Supreme Court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against an insurance agent over “negligent procurement of insurance coverage.”Robert M. Swendra of the Robert M. Swendra Agency Inc. representing...
Sep 5 2011 // David J. Bresnahan has been named president of Lexington Insurance Co., the surplus lines unit of Chartis Insurance. He is succeeding Peter Eastwood, who is moving into his new role as president and chief executive officer...
Sep 5 2011 // The high net worth insurance market remains a stable market for agents and the insurers specializing in this exclusive class.“From a market opportunity perspective we are seeing a market that continues to be fairly...
Sep 5 2011 // Insurance binders are contracts of temporary insurance pending the issuance of a formal policy or proper rejection of the application by the insurer. The binder serves only as a temporary or interim policy until a formal...
Sep 5 2011 // Top 100 Agency Profile Rank: No. 15 Agency Name: INSURICA Insurance Management Network Main Office: Oklahoma City, Okla. Additional Locations: 26 Year Founded: 1959 Total No. of Employees: 244 employees at the end of 2010;...
Sep 5 2011 // Unitrin Inc. is counting on added success as it takes on a new name — the well-known and legendary Kemper name — for the future of the company.Effective Aug. 25, Unitrin Inc. officially became Kemper Corp. and Don...
Sep 2 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has revoked the resident insurance agent license of Sheri Lyn Sharp, of Burlington, Ky., for violations of Ohio insurance law.Sharp wrote...
Sep 2 2011 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York and the Council of Insurance Brokers of Greater New York have filed a formal appeal of a trial court ruling that upheld a controversial state regulation.Attorneys...
Sep 1 2011 // LevelFirst is a new diversified wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, that serves retail agents in the Southwest and across the country.President and CEO of LevelFirst, Robin Stough,...