All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2011 // Bolton & Co. based in Pasadena, Calif., named Brett Schulz assistant vice president in the Property & Casualty division.Schulz brings more than 12 years of professional experience working with businesses to...
Jun 20 2011 // The American Agents Alliance announced it has submitted for title and summary an automobile insurance discount initiative that would allow consumers to receive a discount for having continuous automobile insurance,...
Jun 20 2011 // For apartment owners, the insurance market remains as competitive as it gets. Despite the sometimes heavy exposures that encompass the habitational risk, the vast majority of apartment owners see the cost of coverage...
Jun 17 2011 // Pasadena, Calif.-based insurance broker Bolton & Co., has named Jonathan Schreter assistant vice president in the Property & Casualty Division. Schreter began his insurance career with Hoffman and Brown in 2004...
Jun 17 2011 // California is expected to pass surplus lines regulations before July 21, 2011. On that date, the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (NRRA) becomes effective, and only the “insured’s home...
Jun 17 2011 // State figures show the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety had the worst workers’ compensation record among state agencies over the past five years.The department had $10.8 million in...
Jun 16 2011 // In a major victory for victims of Allen Stanford’s alleged Ponzi scheme, U.S. regulators have concluded that they should be compensated by a brokerage industry-backed fund.The decision announced Wednesday by the U.S....
Jun 15 2011 // U.S securities brokers would be more closely scrutinized by accountants and be subject to stricter rules for how they handle their customers’ assets under a plan proposed by federal regulators Wednesday.The proposal...
Jun 14 2011 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and its Trusted Choice agencies, insurance representatives and other insurance professionals from across the state will gather in Houston, June 22-24, for IIAT’s 114th...
Jun 13 2011 // A 47-year-old Harlingen man was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for a scheme to defraud a Rio Grande Valley hospital of more than $3.8 million by selling it nonexistent and altered insurance...
Jun 13 2011 // New Hampshire-based Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced it signed 33 new members in May. Of these, 24 are liberated “captive agents” new to the independent agency system – bringing new...
Jun 10 2011 // New York agents are cheering a new Senate bill that guarantees a role for producers in the state’s health insurance exchange.A bill introduced yesterday by Sens. James L. Seward (R-Milford) and Kemp Hannon (R-Garden...
Jun 10 2011 // Don’t miss your chance to participate in the 2011 Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report.The extended deadline is now Friday, June 17! Insurance Journal’s Top 100 identifies the...
Jun 10 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor revoked the resident insurance agent license of Jeffrey Hum, of Toledo, Ohio, for violations of Ohio insurance law.A department review revealed that...
Jun 9 2011 // Ohio insurance regulators have revoked the non-resident insurance agent license of Karen Sloan, who resides in Green Pond, N.J., for violations of Ohio insurance law. The Ohio Department of Insurance said it has discovered...
Jun 9 2011 // A federal judge signaled that she would approve a settlement calling for Wells Fargo & Co. to pay $32 million to about 1,200 female brokers who claimed they were paid less than men and denied promotions because of...
Jun 8 2011 // The Ohio Department of Insurance Fraud, Enforcement and License Division, with help from Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office, has identified nearly 2,230 agents and agencies that owe the state of Ohio $21.7...
Jun 8 2011 // Two investigators with the Louisiana Department of Insurance were shot and killed on June 7 while attempting to collect case information from an insurance agent in Ville Platte.Authorities believe that John Melvin Lavergne...
Jun 7 2011 // The American Agents Alliance announced it has submitted for title and summary an automobile insurance discount initiative that would allow consumers to receive a discount for having continuous automobile insurance,...
Jun 7 2011 // The LexisNexis Insurance Exchange, a system that promises to improve how property/casualty agents, brokers and carriers collaborate on commercial lines accounts, is becoming available industry-wide.The system simplifies...