All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 21 2010 // A West Monroe agent was served by the Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section investigators with a cease and desist order, license revocation and $5,000 fine notice for alleged misappropriation.Jennifer Dianne...
Oct 20 2010 // The question I continue to be asked is how do I make sure that employees will take care of my customers the same as I do. We have previously discussed training the receptionist. However, before you consider adding the...
Oct 20 2010 // Tom Bolt, Lloyd’s Underwriting Performance Director, outlined plans in a speech last week to reorganize Lloyd’s claims handling procedures. He received immediate, and no doubt expected, support from...
Oct 20 2010 // Montgomery Insurance Co. Regional Vice President Nancy Newmister has been named the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina’s (IIANC) Company Professional of the Year.The award was presented to Newmister...
Oct 20 2010 // Allstate Insurance Co. said it has launched a recruitment campaign to sign on 40 new agency owners in Michigan by the end of 2011.In addition, the insurer said new and existing Michigan Allstate agencies are projected to...
Oct 19 2010 // Michigan insurance officials say they have identified 41 out of a possible 76 American Benefit Concepts (ABC) insurance agents responsible for selling fraudulent investment products in several multi-million dollar...
Oct 18 2010 // Sean McGovern now heads Lloyd’s operations in the U.S. and Canada – the first and third largest sources of business for its underwriters. Lloyd’s not only wants to hold on to that business, but also to...
Oct 18 2010 // The nation’s flood insurance program is extending the availability of lower cost policies for some property owners who have been recently remapped into higher-priced areas.Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the...
Oct 18 2010 // A key trade group for insurance agents in New York is lauding a proposal by regulators to reform the coastal homeowners insurance market in the state.The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY)...
Oct 18 2010 // A trade group for agents in several Northeast states are urging Massachusetts regulators to shelf new paperwork requirements for out-of-state businesses’ workers’ comp coverage.Massachusetts Division of...
Oct 18 2010 // A former partner in a New Jersey insurance brokerage firm has admitted stealing more than $20 million in a fraudulent loan scheme. Forty-eight-year-old Gavin Gatta of Wayside pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark...
Oct 18 2010 // As John Lennon and Paul McCartney could tell you, sometimes you just need a little help from your friends. And in the insurance agency business – where building relationships are key to success – that friend...
Oct 18 2010 // Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger recently revoked the licenses of three Crawford County insurance agents and warned area citizens who may have been customers of the agents to check with their insurance...
Oct 18 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh has added five industry veterans – four from competing broker Aon – to its private equity and mergers and acquisitions practice.James O’Brien, Jason Hawkins and Craig Warnke join...
Oct 18 2010 // Modeling an insurance agency business after a sandwich shop might sound like a strange idea, but that’s what John Rost, founder, president and CEO of Fiesta Auto Insurance, aims to do. Following a strategy similar to...
Oct 18 2010 // This is the David versus Goliath story of how the Mallory Agency, a small independent insurance agency in LaGrange, Georgia, has faced off against bigger agencies and won. Its weapons: “face time,” professional...
Oct 18 2010 // Texas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB) announced that Jan Holcombe joined the company as vice president of personal client services.Holcombe brings more than 20 years of experience as an insurance counseling...
Oct 18 2010 // Unlike many voters, the hundreds and thousands of independent insurance agents and brokers in California know the November 2 election will be a pivotal one. After all, on that day, Californians will select a new insurance...
Oct 18 2010 // About the Commercial Lines Leaders: The 2010 Commercial Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property/Casualty Indepdendent Agencies as reported in August. This list...
Oct 18 2010 // Today, people continue to migrate to the Internet to accomplish many of their day-to-day tasks. And as we move into the second decade in the 21st century, where are you and your agency as it relates to this shift?In the...