All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2011 // Once again, Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report.Top Overall...
Jun 3 2011 // TKg has appointed David Senescu assistant vice president, casualty broker, in tKg’s Southern California office in La Quinta. In this role, Senescu will be responsible for the production of brokerage business in the...
Jun 1 2011 // Premiums for new federal health insurance plans that cover high-risk people with pre-existing conditions will drop by as much as 40 percent, federal health regulators said Tuesday.The government also will begin paying...
May 31 2011 // Ustun Inan Insurance, an agency celebrating its 29th year of business in Fremont, Calif., has joined The Iroquois Group, according to agency principal Ustun Inan.Inan has been in the property and casualty insurance...
May 31 2011 // The Texas Legislature has passed a measure that requires regulatory approval of property and casualty certificate of insurance forms provided to insureds as proof of coverage.Certificates of insurance are widely used in...
May 27 2011 // Confie Seguros has acquired two New Jersey insurance brokerages – Royale Insurance and First Americano Insurance Agency. The agencies’ founder and CEO, Remberto Perez, will continue to serve as head of the two...
May 26 2011 // Georgia’s PointeNorth Insurance Group and Love, Douglas & Pope Inc. have merged. Effective June 1, the company will operate as PointeNorth Insurance Group.The merger is the third transaction of the year for...
May 26 2011 // A Georgia insurance agent who took premiums from a nonprofit pleaded guilty in Bibb County Superior Court to one count of insurance fraud.Broadus W. Marshall Jr. of Macon was sentenced to 10 years of probation, 500 hours...
May 26 2011 // Learn the business. Put your customers’ interests first. Take care yourself.Those are three messages Mark Z. Moores thinks young people young people entering the insurance business should take to heart. He should...
May 25 2011 // The number of independent agents using real-time upload increased 16 percentage points from 2009 to 2011, says a new industry study.In IVANS’ 2009 Insurance Agents, Carriers & Technology Survey, only 36 percent...
May 25 2011 // Authorities have identified the fatal stabbing suspect fatally shot by Philadelphia police over the weekend. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports officers shot and killed 22-year-old Eric Radcliff because he lunged at them...
May 25 2011 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, has elected John V. Shropshire Jr., CEO of The Shropshire Agency in Lubbock, Texas, as its new chairman for 2011-2012.CAA’s new 2011-12 Management...
May 25 2011 // Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas (IIAD) Staffing Services division has teamed up with Work At Home Vintage Employees LLC (WAHVE) to provide domestic outsourcing services to supply back-office support to insurance...
May 25 2011 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers based in Walnut Creek, Calif., has joined German-based UNISONBrokers, a global broker network, to facilitate its placement and servicing of insurance business in foreign countries. Unison,...
May 24 2011 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired specialty insurance broker ITI Solutions Pte Ltd, located in Singapore. ITI’s speclaties include marine cargo, political risk, trade credit risk, and specialty lines. In...
May 23 2011 // This week, I was in Plymouth Meeting, Penn., instructing a class on generational differences to some 20 insurance professionals. What a great group of people! There were Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers in the room,...
May 23 2011 // A New Jersey insurance broker already charged in a bribery scheme with a former schools superintendent has been indicted on federal election fraud charges. Francis Gartland is accused of scheming with another man to...
May 23 2011 // The U.S. Justice Department has refused to pay $750,000 to a Michigan insurance company for a Ferrari that was wrecked in Kentucky while driven by an FBI agent.In a recent response to a lawsuit in Detroit, the Justice...
May 20 2011 // General Star Management Co. has launched an insurance agents and brokers E&O program, which will be offered through the National Specialty Programs unit of All Risks, Ltd., located Hunt Valley, MD. All Risks will be...
May 20 2011 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) says it is moving forward with a legal appeal of a court ruling that forced agents in the state to reveal their commissions to clients.The group plans to...