All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 27 2010 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) and one of its co-founders John Hahn and industry investor Jeff Cappel, announced the formation of Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services LLC (WTC), a boutique wholesale...
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors.Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Aug 27 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced that former insurance agent Jamie Smith of Bowling Green, Ohio, has been convicted on one count of felony theft in the Lucas County Court of Common...
Aug 25 2010 // It takes more than a bad economy and declining prices to weaken property/casualty insurance brokers.Moody’s Investors Service says in its new Industry Scorecard report that the insurance brokerage sector remains...
Aug 25 2010 // For the past two weeks I have been discussing challenges faced by small agencies in small towns. This week I want to begin the discussion about various solutions I have seen these agencies us that have aided them in...
Aug 25 2010 // Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the boat.” But it doesn’t take a master angler to know that once you...
Aug 25 2010 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents has appointed three new members to its Board of Directors. The appointments were made during FAIA’s 106th Anniversary Convention and Education Symposium.“The FAIA...
Aug 24 2010 // One in five of the Louisiana sheriffs, school boards, parish councils and other storm-ravaged local government agencies who borrowed federal funds after hurricanes Katrina and Rita won’t have to repay a dime of the...
Aug 24 2010 // Insurance brokerage deals in the second quarter of 2010 barely bested the number of deals during the second quarter of 2009 bringing year-over-year activity slightly ahead of last. Forty-six transactions were announced...
Aug 24 2010 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work?Insurance Journal is once again on the lookout for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you...
Aug 23 2010 // Lawsuits by the Connecticut Attorney General accusing three credit ratings agencies with giving artificially low credit ratings to municipalities can proceed in a Connecticut state court, a judge ruled.In a ruling made...
Aug 20 2010 // A decision by a federal court in Philadelphia has reopened some of the racketeering and antitrust lawsuits that were dismissed three years ago against insurers and brokers who allegedly participated in a bid-rigging scheme...
Aug 19 2010 // Ohio’s oldest independent and largest employee-owned risk management and insurance brokerage firm has opened an office in Akron. Oswald Companies serves more than 50 clients collectively in Akron and...
Aug 19 2010 // Scott Brock has been appointed as CEO of Goss Reinsurance Brokers Inc., the reinsurance brokerage division of U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc.Brock will work with Chris Turner, president of Goss Re, to provide highly...
Aug 19 2010 // Over the course of the past decade, our firm, C. R. Ekern & Co. has worked closely with over 25 percent of the Insurance Journal Top 100 Agencies. Providing either sales training, leadership training, or consulting to...
Aug 18 2010 // In my previous post “Insights Into Agency Cultures – Small Agencies in Small Town” I discussed some of the cultural challenges these firms face. Some owners of these firms recognize that they have issues....
Aug 18 2010 // Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft market conditions; insurance companies continue to tier agents based on future growth;...
Aug 17 2010 // H. Linwood Insurance Services Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., has named Terri Novy a senior broker. She has five years of insurance industry experious, having previously worked as a broker for State Farm Insurance.
Aug 17 2010 // Los Angeles based L.A.Xcess Insurance Brokers Inc. has hired Jodi Riggins as assistant vice president. She will be reporting responsible for marketing new business and servicing an existing book of business. Riggins began...
Aug 16 2010 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work?Insurance Journal is once again on the lookout for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you...