All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 22 2010 // Warwick, RI – April 22, 2010 – Astonish Results is proud to announce the addition of Ganis Consulting as part of their insurance marketing and web services team. Ganis Consulting is an insurance agency...
Apr 22 2010 // Astonish Results has added Ganis Consulting to its insurance marketing and Web services team. Ganis Consulting is an insurance agency consultancy and business brokerage that helps agencies across the country with agency...
Apr 20 2010 // Momentous Insurance Brokerage Inc. of Van Nuys, Calif., has announced that Marifel Divinsky, former senior account manager from USI of Southern California, has joined the company as an account executive. Divinsky has more...
Apr 20 2010 // Many insurance industry professionals are living in a dream. Their fantasy is that the soft market is ending, but nothing could be further from the truth. As long as our economy stays weak, the soft market will continue.A...
Apr 20 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York (IIABNY) and the Council of Insurance Brokers of Greater New York (CIBGNY) say they will team up to sue the state over new rules that will require agents to disclose...
Apr 19 2010 // One way that agency owners can keep their employees happy in today’s tough times is by making their compensation more accountable to agency growth. Al Diamond, president of the Agency Consulting Group, says in...
Apr 19 2010 // January deal activity started out strong but continued to decline in February and further in March. Nonetheless, first quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity bested last year’s first quarter performance...
Apr 19 2010 // AmWINS Group, Inc. and Colemont Insurance Brokers announced that the two companies will be combined to form a specialty insurance distributor placing more than $4.8 billion in annual premiums with more than 1,800 employees...
Apr 19 2010 // Independent agency salaries maintained or decreased slightly in 2009, but employee morale may be registering at an all time low. And agents don’t expect things to change, at least not anytime soon.Average Salary...
Apr 19 2010 // To alleviate concerns about homeowner under-insurance, the California Department of Insurance has scheduled a hearing for May 17 in Los Angeles to discuss proposed regulations governing standards and training for...
Apr 19 2010 // It would probably be rather difficult to find many agents unaware of business interruption coverage. Most recognize that for their business customers, business interruption (BI) coverage is extremely valuable. It is, after...
Apr 19 2010 // The impact of recent high-profile natural catastrophes has brought to the forefront the need for businesses to have appropriate time element insurance coverage in place. With this raised awareness, agents and brokers are...
Apr 19 2010 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT), recently named Fred Pecina and Jeremy Sandusky partners in the agency. Pecina is based in the firm’s Ft. Worth office, and Sandusky works in MHBT’s Dallas office.Pecina,...
Apr 19 2010 // Those in the business of providing liability coverage to doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, may have just found themselves in a perfect storm of opportunity.Health care reform in the United States is a...
Apr 19 2010 // Central Insurance Companies of Van Wert, Ohio, announced the retirements of Michael E. Thompson and George J. Gress. Additionally, Central promoted Jana L. Ringwald to vice president of Commercial Underwriting for its...
Apr 19 2010 // Commercial insurance buyers continue to benefit from lower prices and steady or increasing insurance capacity in property/casualty markets, reports the nation’s largest insurance broker.In its newly published Lockton...
Apr 19 2010 // Pennsylvania-based insurance agency franchisor Keystone Insurers Group has more than 200 agency owner-partners and it’s not done yet, says Colin Buzzard, Keystone’s executive vice president of sales and...
Apr 16 2010 // Scanlon, Guerra, Burke Insurance Brokers of Woodland Hills, Calif., announced that it is becoming the master broker for California’s exclusive workers’ compensation self-insured group of home improvement and...
Apr 16 2010 // A trade group for New York City insurance agents says it is launching a legal challenge against the state’s insurance department over new rules that would require agents to disclose their pay to customers.Directors...
Apr 15 2010 // St. James Insurance Group, based in Orlando, Fla., has re-entered the commercial lines business after a five year absence.The program manager has appointed Dave Stricker, former senior vice president of All Risks Ltd., to...