All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2011 // Agents across the country — except in Texas and neighboring states — agree that construction and related trades have been hardest hit by the recession. Restaurants appear to be the second hardest hit.In terms of lines...
Feb 7 2011 // Just weeks into the New Year, the experts’ predictions appear to be “more of the same” for at least the first half of 2011: super soft pricing combined with increased availability of limits and coverage....
Feb 4 2011 // Breckenridge IS Inc. has acquired a majority interest in REcentis Intermediaries LLC, a specialty reinsurance broker with offices in Westlake Village, Calif. and Sydney, Australia.REcentis has expertise in energy, casualty...
Feb 4 2011 // Distinguished Programs Group LLC (Distinguished), headquartered in New York, has acquired a controlling interest in GreenLine Underwriters (GreenLine), a Dallas-based program administrator focused on delivering insurance...
Feb 1 2011 // Troopers with the Lafayette Field Office of the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit recently arrested a Ville Platte insurance agent for unfair trade practices.In October 2010, troopers received a criminal...
Feb 1 2011 // New York insurance agents are lauding a new legal opinion from state regulators that will allow producers to recover any money lost when clients bounce checks.The Independent Insurance Agent and Brokers of New York...
Feb 1 2011 // Insurance agents and brokers can now legally prove who e-mailed what to whom and when.Applied Systems TAMOnline and VisionOnline agency management systems now include a service known as RPost Registered Email. RPost helps...
Jan 28 2011 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the property insurer of last resort along the Texas Gulf Coast, reports that in the second quarter of 2011 it will begin paying agents’ commissions monthly.TWIA will require...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...