All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group (KIG) is continuing its expansion in Kentucky. The company announced it has added Rowland Insurance and Rudd Insurance to its growing list of partner agencies in Kentucky.These two firms join...
Feb 16 2010 // Two insurance agents in Nebraska have been handed sentences for unlawful conduct, the Nebraska Department of Insurance reported.A previously licensed insurance agent, Bobby L. Hoeft, sentenced by District Court Judge Vicky...
Feb 16 2010 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court has sided with the state’s insurance commissioner in a heated lawsuit brought by the state’s insurance agents and Arbella Mutual Insurance Co. over how new companies are assigned...
Feb 12 2010 // A North Carolina insurance agent has been sentenced to 48 months supervised probation with one year of electronic house arrest after pleading guilty to five counts of embezzlement, according to state officials. Insurance...
Feb 11 2010 // The more personal lines business an agency places with a particular carrier, the more satisfaction the agency reports having with that same carrier. That’s according to a new industry study which states that insurers...
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...
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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...