All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2010 // Independent insurance agents often rate a carrier with great field representatives higher than others – sometimes elevating them to their “Top 3” carriers. While the performance of insurance company field...
Jul 5 2010 // It’s no secret. Insurance is a relationship business. And the agent-wholesale broker relationship is no exception. The continued soft market hasn’t stifled relationships either. Wholesale brokers are still a...
Jul 1 2010 // Tower Group Inc. has completed its acquisition of the personal lines business of OneBeacon Insurance Group for $167 million.The completed transaction includes the acquisition by Towers of Massachusetts Homeland Insurance...
Jul 1 2010 // NationAir Aviation Insurance President Jeff Bauer announced that the West Chicago, Ill.-based company has been selected by XL Insurance to serve as a broker in the Cessna Affiliates Insurance Program. The program offers...
Jul 1 2010 // A New Jersey grand jury has indicted a Burlington County insurance agent for pocketing payments from three clients, according to Attorney General Paula T. Dow.Lee Schaffer, of Marlton, was charged with insurance fraud,...
Jul 1 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 1 2010 // NetComp Insurance, a newly-formed program manager based in Columbia, S.C., has opened its online program (www.netcompinsurance.com) for small to-mid size workers’ compensation business to all independent agents in...
Jun 30 2010 // Print it yourself. That’s what New Jersey’s insurance regulator is telling insurance agents about their insurance licenses.The department issued a new bulletin advising agents and public adjusters in the state...
Jun 30 2010 // Rockwood Programs, Inc. has revised its life/accident and health insurance agents’ errors and omissions (E&O) offering by embedding $100,000 limit general liability coverage in the product.These coverage...
Jun 29 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), headquartered in Northumberland, Penn., has added three Indiana franchisees to its growing list of partner agencies. Hummel Insurance Group, Associated Agencies and Rosemeyer Agency bring the...
Jun 25 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...
Jun 24 2010 // Breckenridge IS, Inc., a specialty underwriter and program management company based in Cleveland, has acquired Overby-Seawell Co., a Kennesaw, Georgia-based specialty financial services insurance broker to...
Jun 24 2010 // Price Forbes & Partners, an independent, London-based specialist insurance broker, announced the expansion of its business through the establishment of a Treaty Reinsurance Division.Starting October first, the...
Jun 24 2010 // Charles Binns, Divisional Director of Professional Risks at London-based broker Cooper Gay, told delegates at last week’s BrokersLink Global Conference that the introduction of new laws in a number of countries,...
Jun 24 2010 // The deadline is here! Last chance to join the ranks of the industry leaders among privately-held retail independent insurance agencies by completing this quick survey for the 2010 Insurance Journal Top 100 P/C Independent...
Jun 24 2010 // ICW Group, a super regional property and casualty insurance company based in San Diego, has been named the 2009-2010 “Company of the Year” by the Nevada Independent Insurance Agents (NIIA). The award was based...
Jun 23 2010 // Corpus Christi, Texas independent insurance agent Wallace C. (Wally) Goodman has won the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ Drex Foreman Award, and Landon Ogilvie, partner at Gans & Smith Agency in Longview,...
Jun 22 2010 // Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma say a gubernatorial veto will keep numerous agencies, including some of the state’s largest, from saving millions in health care costs. Legislation that supporters say would have...
Jun 22 2010 // Jacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Co. has officially launched operations as a medical malpractice insurance company in Florida.The company, which sells insurance directly to physicians community without the use of...
Jun 22 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...