All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2011 // The three major U.S. credit rating agencies won the dismissal of lawsuits seeking to hold them liable as “underwriters” for helping banks structure securities transactions to achieve desired ratings.The 2nd...
May 11 2011 // Wholesale insurance broker All Risks, Ltd. reports that Don Deising has been hired to lead its Orlando, Florida operation as branch manager and senior broker. Deising will produce new business while leading the Orlando...
May 11 2011 // Catlin UK, part of the Catlin Group Limited, plans to unveil a new suite of products aimed specifically at UK brokers at this week’s BIBA (British Insurance Brokers Association) conference in Manchester.The products...
May 10 2011 // Mark Z. Moores, president of St. Paul-based Moores Insurance Management Inc., and has been named president of the Minnesota Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (MIIAB) professional association.He previously...
May 10 2011 // Property/casualty insurers appear to be in no rush to adopt a controversial revised catastrophe model that dramatically raises certain estimates of potential hurricane losses in the country.California-based modeling firm...
May 10 2011 // Pennsylvania House lawmakers have approved new legislation that would allow insurers to write workers’ comp coverage to owners and principals of businesses.Agents in the state had sought the change to correct a...
May 10 2011 // MMA Insurance, the wholly owned UK subsidiary of French multi-national insurer, MMA IARD Assurances Mutuelles, has appointed Derek Bradshaw as Development Manager, to drive commercial growth through its broker partners.He...
May 9 2011 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Lawson-Hawks Insurance Agency Inc. (LHI), a Mountain View, Calif.-based insurance brokerage firm, and Mark Tauber Insurance Brokerage Inc., a Brooklyn, New York-based...
May 9 2011 // Homeowners’ insurers in Florida are breathing a sigh of relief after succeeding in a months-long battle to obtain property insurance reforms designed to reduce costs and stabilize the market.After watching state...
May 9 2011 // Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced that six new independent agencies in the Midwest have joined the alliance. They are among 21 new members that SIAA signed in April.Of April’s signed members, 18...
May 9 2011 // While you may answer the question posed in the headline by saying that most of your commercial customers have business interruption coverage, the issue here is not whether they have the coverage, but whether they are...
May 9 2011 // The California Senate Insurance Committee has blocked a restitution bill that would have given explicit authority to the state Insurance Commissioner to order restitution as part of an administrative enforcement action...
May 6 2011 // California Assembly Member Anthony Portantino, 44th District, has proposed a bill aimed to level the playing field for brokers who help to secure workers’ compensation insurance from the State Compensation Insurance...
May 6 2011 // A Bismarck, N.D., insurance agent accused of falsifying insurance applications to qualify for weekly bonuses has lost his agent license.North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm revoked the license of Michael Krebs....
May 6 2011 // Hampton, N.H., based The Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA) announced 21 new member agencies in April. Of April’s signed members, 18 are liberated “captive agents” new to the independent agency...
May 4 2011 // Woe to the employer who is not attentive and actively engaged in health and safety.” That’s the warning the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is giving employers in the Golden...
May 4 2011 // Commercial property/casualty pricing declined again with an average decline 3 percent in the first quarter of 2011. But according to a new industry survey, the pace of pricing declines may be slowing down.The market showed...
May 4 2011 // Members of the armed services and their sponsors will find it easier to keep or obtain an agent’s license under a new law approved by Kentucky lawmakers.Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear has signed into law HB 301 that...
May 4 2011 // Among the enforcement actions for March 2011 announced by the Texas Department of Insurance are a number of fines imposed on surplus lines wholesalers for failing to report surplus line premium in a timely...
May 3 2011 // Bank insurance brokerage fee income in 2010 reached a record level as it rose 7.9 percent from $12.36 billion in 2009 to $13.33 billion in 2010, according to a new report.The report, compiled by Michael White Associates...