All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 14 2010 // The Hilb Group, a Virginia insurance brokerage launched in 2009 by the founder of what became one of the world’s largest brokerages along with his son, has added its first two partners as it begins building a...
Jul 14 2010 // Corporate risk and finance managers, faced with the lingering effects of a global financial crisis, dramatically downsized staffs and reduced budgets are becoming increasingly concerned about managing those expenditures as...
Jul 9 2010 // Long-time Portland, Ore.-based independent insurance agencies Rogers, Fitzwalter & Powell Inc. has relocated to join forces with Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker Inc. EPB&B President Marc Baker, announced that...
Jul 8 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West’s (IBA West) education division, Insurance Skills Center (ISC), has entered into an agreement with Cheryl L. Koch, president and CEO of Agency Management Resource Group, for...
Jul 8 2010 // “Brokers are now significantly more positive about conducting business at Lloyd’s than two years ago,” according to a survey of the Lloyd’s market from part of the Gracechurch London Market Study...
Jul 8 2010 // A West Monroe, La., agent has been served by Department of Insurance Fraud Section Investigators with a cease and desist order, a summary suspension order and fine notice for alleged misappropriation and...
Jul 7 2010 // A group of New York insurance agents has launched a new trade group for Latin insurance producers as well as brokers who serve the Hispanic community in the Northeast.LABA is not the first group geared toward insurance...
Jul 7 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
Jul 7 2010 // InVEST, the insurance industry’s career education program, has awarded $56,500 in scholarships to 58 college-bound students pursuing insurance-related degrees, including 10 students from New York.Patrick Moore, chair...
Jul 7 2010 // Farmers Group of Cos. has introduced an institutional business owners policy (iBOP) for institutions across America, which will be offered by Farmers agents in Texas.iBOP is designed to serve a spectrum of religious...
Jul 7 2010 // Washington agents and brokers are being advised to update the licensing business address with the Office of the Insurance Commissioner.In October, the OIC will launch a new search feature on its Web site to help consumers...
Jul 6 2010 // When uttered together by a client, the five words in the headline of this article are — potentially — very dangerous words.Note the following claim and ask yourself, “Could this happen in my agency?” The...
Jul 5 2010 // The Connecticut Insurance Department is warning producers against placing coastal homeowners in the surplus lines market if an admitted insurer has offered to renew their policies. Doing so violates Connecticut law, and in...
Jul 5 2010 // Print it yourself. That’s what New Jersey’s insurance regulator is telling insurance agents about their insurance licenses. The department has issued a new bulletin advising agents and public adjusters in the...
Jul 5 2010 // Rightly or wrongly, the six-year-old battle over the payment of contingent commissions is reshaping the way the insurance-selling industry gets paid. It’s a practice that, at least for the big brokers, is vanishing....
Jul 5 2010 // Rightly or wrongly, the six-year-old battle over the payment of contingent commissions is reshaping the way the insurance-selling industry gets paid. It’s a practice that, at least for the big brokers, is vanishing....
Jul 5 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011.Other newly...
Jul 5 2010 // Congress’s inability to act leaves many in flood prone areas vulnerable – for the second time this year and the fourth in 12 months’ time.When it rains it pours, as the saying goes. By extension, one...
Jul 5 2010 // How much of our decision-making is really up to us? It turns out many decisions might be made before we can even act. When new employees were given a choice to join a 401(k) plan, 49 percent signed up. But being...
Jul 5 2010 // After years of doing business exclusively though wholesale brokers, United States Liability Insurance Group (USLI) is expanding its distribution to work directly with retail insurance agencies.“We are expanding our...