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IBA West Installs New Officers, Directors

Jan 28 2011 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has installed new officers and directors. Tim Minaka Jr., senior vice president of FIA Insurance Services in Pasadena, Calif., was installed as president.Other officers...

New K-12 Accident Medical Program Offers Options for Public Schools and Students

Jan 28 2011 // Fort Wayne, Ind. – January 28 2011 – K&K Insurance, a division of Aon Underwriting Managers and a managing general underwriter offering insurance products and services to the sports, leisure and...

UK’s Managing General Agents Take Further Steps to Create Association

Jan 27 2011 // The next step in the launch of the UK’s Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) was successfully achieved this week, following the final meeting in a round of consultative discussions with key stakeholders,...

Boehner to Address Agents Before D.C. Lobbying Day

Jan 26 2011 // House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will give the keynote address to members of the Big “I” during the group’s annual D.C. conference later this year.Boehner is scheduled to speak on Thursday, April 14,...

UK’s Amlin Acquires J R Clare Underwriting Agencies

Jan 26 2011 // UK-based specialist insurer Amlin plc announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Amlin Corporate Services Limited, has agreed and has completed the acquisition of J R Clare Underwriting Agencies Limited (JCUA) from John...

Asterisk Financial, Burns & Wilcox Introduce Personal Guarantee Insurance

Jan 25 2011 // Burns & Wilcox has been selected by Asterisk Financial Inc., the creator of Personal Guarantee Insurance (PGI), to be its wholesale partner to offer PGI directly to brokers and agents.Today, most small and medium-sized...

MHBT Names New Partners

Jan 25 2011 // Dallas-based MHBT, one of the largest privately owned insurance and risk management firms in the United States, recently announced that Ryan Bowles, Dan King, Jim Moss and Travis Sartain have been named partners in the...

Sidelining Agents

Jan 24 2011 // In their zeal to control health care costs, federal and state policymakers may be pushing health insurance agents and brokers to the sidelines and potentially out of business. If this happens, they will be shortchanging...

Sidelining Agents

Jan 24 2011 // In their zeal to control health care costs, federal and state policymakers may be pushing health insurance agents and brokers to the sidelines and potentially out of business. If this happens, they will be shortchanging...

Massachusetts Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $43K in Premiums

Jan 24 2011 // A Massachusetts insurance agent has pleaded guilty to pocketing $43,000 in premiums.Richard Coscia Jr., of Winthrop, an employee of Coscia Insurance Agency, pleaded guilty to over two dozen charges, including insurance...

Durham and Bates Agencies Names Hurst President, CEO

Jan 24 2011 // Portland, Ore.-based Durham and Bates Agencies Inc. has selected William D. Hurst as CEO and president. Hurst, an internationally known marine insurance broker, and leader of Durham and Bates’ Marine Practice for 25...

2010 Ends with a Bang

Jan 24 2011 // Following a year of historically low merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2009, market, economic and political dynamics fueled the fourth most active year of M&A activity in the past 11 years, and the busiest...

Six Keys to Harleysville’s Turnaround

Jan 24 2011 // Six years ago, Harleysville Group was in need of a big change. The Pennsylvania-based insurer had just come out of the worst performing year in its history. That’s when newly appointed CEO Michael Browne — who...

Calif. Commissioner Jones to Enforce Medical Loss Ratio Rule

Jan 24 2011 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has signed an emergency order to enforce the medical loss ratio. The MLR rules require insurers to annually disclose the percentage of premium revenue spent on reimbursement for...

Medicare Set Asides in Workers’ Compensation

Jan 24 2011 // One of the most important services a broker provides its customers is workers’ compensation claims review. Successful resolution and prompt closure of workers’ compensation claims have a direct impact on...

Sidelining Agents

Jan 24 2011 // In their zeal to control health care costs, federal and state policymakers may be pushing health insurance agents and brokers to the sidelines and potentially out of business. If this happens, they will be shortchanging...

Court: Only English Required in Arizona Uninsured/Underinsured Form

Jan 24 2011 // The Supreme Court of Arizona has ruled that the state’s uninsured motorist (UM) and underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage selection or rejection form only needs to be filed in English — even when dealing with...

People

Jan 24 2011 // National wholesale broker USG Insurance Services, Inc. has added Jason Holloman as a property broker specializing in large commercial and catastrophe-exposed risks. He will be based in USG’s office outside...

China’s Continental, Korea’s Daewoo INS Join Assurex Global Broker Network

Jan 24 2011 // Assurex Global, the worldwide broker network, announced that it has added two new firms to the network: Continental Insurance Brokers Limited (CIB), with headquarters in Beijing, China, and Daewoo INS Korea Corp. in Seoul,...

Crump Adds Domitrovich as Assistant VP-Broker in Chicago

Jan 21 2011 // Crump Insurance Services has hired Matthew Domitrovich as assistant vice vresident, broker in its Chicago office. Domitrovich has more than four years’ experience placing casualty risks. He previously was with...