All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2010 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The 2010 Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in August. This list utilizes...
Nov 14 2010 // In one way, today’s high unemployment rate is helpful in the agency business. It assists when it comes to recruiting new, youthful producers. There are tons of young, smart, educated people out there today who...
Nov 14 2010 // Connecticut-based managing general agency Business Risk Partners has named Mark Bradway as director of broker relations. He has worked in specialty liability for over a decade. He began his career at wholesale broker Swett...
Nov 12 2010 // Thomas E. Smith has joined Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Services as president. Most recently, Smith was Great American Insurance Company Division President of Great American Custom Insurance Services. Sullivan...
Nov 12 2010 // BrokersLink, a major independent insurance broker alliance whose members manage premium volumes in excess of $10 billion, has appointed Juan Ignacio Casanueva, Chairman of the Casanueva Perez Group in Mexico, to its board...
Nov 11 2010 // Aon Benfield announced that it is “advising re/insurers that rating agencies are likely to increase their scrutiny of catastrophe risk in Asia and that many companies will have to make substantial investments to...
Nov 10 2010 // If enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance this year in response to late filing of surplus lines insurance policies with the state stamping office were meant to capture the attention of managing...
Nov 9 2010 // Los Angeles, CA – 9 November 2010 – Thomas E. Smith has joined Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Services as President effective November 8, 2010. Most recently, Smith was Great American Insurance Company...
Nov 9 2010 // New York regulators have finalized guidelines for how agents and brokers are to reveal to clients their commissions, but at least one trade group says any changes to the rules thus far have been...
Nov 9 2010 // Maximum Independent Brokerage LLC, a Chicago-based excess and surplus lines wholesale brokerage, announced it is hiring the entire team of McAuley Woods Midwest office effective immediately. Adrian Smith, along with his...
Nov 9 2010 // Marsh announced that it has signed a mutually exclusive agreement with Anglo Arab Insurance Brokers (AAIB), “the only international broker to be licensed and registered to operate in Iraq with offices across the...
Nov 9 2010 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has revoked the licenses of two insurance agents.Hamm has barred a Fargo insurance agent Janet Lulay from doing insurance work in the state. He says Lulay accepted a check from...
Nov 9 2010 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund announced it has revised its broker of record policy, as well as filed for a 5.2 percent overall rate increase for 2011. The rate filing also includes changes that it...
Nov 8 2010 // Bond has been set at $17,500 for a Minot, N.D., insurance agent facing a felony theft charge. State Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says 57-year-old Alan Henning allegedly stole more than $800,000 by obtaining...
Nov 8 2010 // Managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler, U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has named Elizabeth Wafer an associate broker working with Ann Meyer, senior broker, in the Houston, Texas, office. Wafer brings with...
Nov 8 2010 // In what’s being called “a major victory for insurance agents and brokers,” the California Office of Administrative Law has approved Department of Insurance plans to repeal certain portions of its privacy...
Nov 5 2010 // They go by many names — networks, alliances, franchises, clusters and aggregators — but all have similar goals. Aggregator groups have been around the insurance industry for more than three decades but in the past few...
Nov 5 2010 // An insurance agent has pleaded guilty to conning a Grand Forks real estate company into paying more than $64,000 for nonexistent home policies.Forty-four-year-old David Glessner of Grand Forks reached a plea agreement with...
Nov 5 2010 // Bowing to pressure from insurers and agent groups, Massachusetts safety regulators have eased new, workers’ comp paperwork requirements for some out-of-state contractors.At issue is a form used by inspectors to...
Nov 3 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) said that its political action committee, InsurPac, distributed more than $1.7 million in the 2010 campaign cycle resulting in a...