All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 7 2011 // A group of 30 brokers from across the U.S. and Canada are set to visit Lloyd’s this week as part of an annually organized broker program. They will come to London for five days to “learn about the Corporation...
Jun 6 2011 // Insurance agents are warning contractors in New York City that they may not be able to obtain increased coverage requirements called for by city regulations set to go into effect next week.Many of those new coverages are...
Jun 6 2011 // The Catlin Group Limited announced a “major initiative by the Catlin Syndicate at Lloyd’s and Catlin UK to improve the service provided to brokers.”Catlin explained that as part of the new services its...
Jun 6 2011 // The Final Straw?“It’s only a large U.S. event that can turn things around. The U.S. is the biggest insurance market with the biggest exposures.” —Amit Kumar, an analyst at Macquarie in New York. The...
Jun 6 2011 // Tina Wrotenbery joined Hub International Rigg (Hub Rigg) as a senior employee benefits consultant. Wrotenbery will move into Hub’s existing offices in Houston and will report to Charlie Reynolds, president, Employee...
Jun 6 2011 // Learn the business. Put your customers’ interests first. Take care yourself.Those are three messages Mark Z. Moores thinks young people entering the insurance business should take to heart. He should know. Some 30...
Jun 6 2011 // The big state agency that oversees insurance producers in New York will soon become a whole lot bigger – and that’s left a lot of agents in the Empire State wondering just how it will affect them.Later this...
Jun 6 2011 // Agents and adjusters have completely different roles in the insurance industry. But as intermediaries between insurance companies and their customers they have one critical thing in common: They often get called into...
Jun 6 2011 // The IMA Financial Group Inc. promoted three in the company’s employee benefits division to vice presidents.Gregg Kamas was promoted to vice president of IMA Financial Group and national practice leader of health risk...
Jun 6 2011 // After handling insurance coverage claims for years, a distinct pattern has emerged: sometimes the insurance agent gets “caught in the middle” of a dispute between the policy holder and the insured. Often,...
Jun 6 2011 // Marsh & McLennan Cos. appointed Daniel S. Glaser to the newly created position of group president and chief operating officer. Glaser previously had been chairman and CEO of Marsh. He will continue to report to Brian...
Jun 6 2011 // The sweeping federal health care reform law enacted last year is having a major bottom line impact on insurance agents. New rules preventing insurers from including commissions in medical loss ratios means some agents are...