All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 18 2010 // Property/casualty insurance advocacy groups, including the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America...
Oct 18 2010 // Currently, the insurance industry is on the brink of a demographic shift, and as more young professionals begin to enter the field and veterans begin to retire, a whole new set of expectations arises regarding technology...
Oct 18 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...
Oct 15 2010 // The Builder Agent Network has expanded their offerings available to Texas home builders and general contractors to include trade contractors. Builder Agent Network (BAN) is a managing general agent for several insurance...
Oct 15 2010 // Three insurance producer groups have joined forces to form the Texas Coalition of Health Insurance Agents to monitor, respond to and communicate on the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care...
Oct 14 2010 // State Insurance Department officials say they have begun a criminal investigation into the businesses of a Fayetteville man who killed himself in August. The Fayetteville Observer reported that a spokeswoman says the state...
Oct 14 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) and its Trusted Choice agencies announce that Todd Kilkenny has joined the association as director of agency management resources. Kilkenny will be responsible for...
Oct 14 2010 // The National Young Agents Committee (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) presented the second annual Young Agents State Liaison of the Year award to Steve...
Oct 13 2010 // A Winnsboro, La., agent was served by the Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section Investigators with a cease and desist order, a summary suspension order and a $10,000 fine notice for alleged misrepresentation.The...
Oct 12 2010 // What if you could get all the benefits of attending an insurance trade show without any expense or leaving your office?Find New Markets, connect with existing markets, learn from the experts in the lecture hall, network...
Oct 12 2010 // The insurance industry called the passage of the Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act on July 21, 2010, a “big win” thanks to provisions in the massive reform bill that would modernize regulation...
Oct 12 2010 // Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired ReSource Intermediaries, Inc., a reinsurance advisory and brokerage firm based in San Francisco.The move paves the way for New York-based Integro to become...