All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2010 // Dallas-based Towerstone Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and managing general agency, announced that Rachel Blais, Jennie Conditt, J.B. Hill, Amy McCarty and Ryan Taylor have joined the company. Conditt is an assistant...
Feb 10 2010 // The New York Insurance Department has officially released a new set of rules that will require insurance agents and brokers to provide some detailed information to clients about how agents are paid.The new regulation,...
Feb 10 2010 // A trade group for New York insurance agents says it will sue the state over newly issued rules that would force agents to reveal to clients how much they are paid.The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York...
Feb 9 2010 // New York regulators are expected to release new rules tomorrow that require agents to disclose to clients some aspects of their compensation, although the rules are more palatable to agents than previous proposed...
Feb 8 2010 // Five more insurance agencies have joined the Keystone Insurers Group in Kentucky, bringing to 11 the total number of KIG agencies in the state.The latest to join are Hayes-Utley-Hedgspeth, Moore Insurance, Cambridge...
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
Feb 7 2010 // Conducting a target marketing campaign used to be cumbersome and expensive. Today, with an up-to-date agency management system, getting started is a snap. It still takes persistence to succeed, but getting going...
Feb 7 2010 // There’s a common perception that homeowners insurance rates in Texas go up and up, and never come down. That’s not necessarily true, however, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas. They say...
Feb 7 2010 // In 2009, independent insurance agents and brokers faced a “perfect storm” with the economic downturn, premiums at a fraction of what they used to be, and unemployment and home foreclosure rates up. But 2010 may...
Feb 7 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has disbanded its Pacific Northwest Chapter and joined forces with the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Washington (Big “I” Washington). According...
Feb 7 2010 // It’s no secret that nonprofits are feeling the effects of a battered economy. Donations are down. State and federal funding is also down. In the wake of necessary cost-cutting measures, insurance providers say they...
Feb 7 2010 // Ask any agent who has suffered through an errors and omissions (E&O) suit, and he or she will provide sage-like insight into the professional and even personal trials created by such an ordeal.I recently met an agent...
Feb 7 2010 // A prolonged soft market coupled with the worst economic period since the Great Depression as well as uncertainty related to national health care reform, caused insurance brokerage buyers and sellers to struggle with how to...
Feb 7 2010 // Main Street business often means different things to different people, but it generally refers to small commercial establishments that would be found in towns and villages across the United States. The Small Business...
Feb 7 2010 // Top 100 Agency Profile Agency Name: Marshall and Sterling Enterprises Inc. Headquarters: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Year Founded: 1864 Additional Locations: 17 2008 Total Premium Volume: $342 million Property/Casualty: $289...
Feb 5 2010 // iPeople LLC will launch a new merger and acquisition service for insurance agencies, brokerage firms and managing general agents throughout the United States. iPeople, a Washington, D.C.-based insurance consulting firm,...
Feb 5 2010 // Most Massachusetts insurance agents who were appointed as exclusive representative producers (ERPs) under the state’s previous insurance regime have obtained voluntary contracts with insurers or have merged with...
Feb 5 2010 // February 7 — Super Bowl XLIV Sunday — may be the most hyped-up day of the year for football fans, and it’s also the most exciting day of the year for many pizza parlors that see record sales that day. Yet...
Feb 4 2010 // California-based Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers (WSS) has announced changes in the personnel for the WSS Brokerage Division. In the Pasadena, Calif., office, Philip Tiomico, who has been with WSS since 2008,...
Feb 4 2010 // Chicago-based ASPN, the Agency Specialty Products Network Insurance Agency LLC, formed a new alliance with San Francisco-based ISU International and the ISU Network, one of the nation’s largest group of independently...