All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 3 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says a Baton Rouge agent has been served with two cease and desist orders, and two fine notices, for alleged insurance fraud, bank fraud, issuing worthless checks, filing false public...
Feb 3 2010 // Young insurance agents, 40-and-younger, what are you thinking?Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun. It’s your...
Feb 3 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) on Feb. 2 presented its 2010 Independent Leadership Award to Joe Straus III, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.Speaker Straus was elected to the House of...
Feb 2 2010 // Texas insurance agents — want to show your customers that the common perception that homeowners rates in Texas always go up but never come down is false? Look to your agency management system, say educators from the...
Feb 1 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 1 2010 // Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun.Who are you? What do you really think about your career? About your industry?...
Feb 1 2010 // Dallas-based Lipscomb Insurance Group has partnered with Ronnie Cathey to form Lipscomb & Cathey.Cathey’s expertise includes real estate and marine insurance. Lipscomb is a full service agency offering...
Jan 29 2010 // Greenhill Capital Partners LLC announced it has invested $20 million in Acrisure LLC, a Midwest insurance brokerage company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich.Formed in 2005, Acrisure has acquired 17 insurance agencies...
Jan 29 2010 // Corpus Christi independent insurance agent and former Texas Windstorm Insurance Association chairman, Lloyd L. Grove Jr., passed away Jan. 24 at the age of 81. Throughout his 50-year career Grove was actively involved in...
Jan 29 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), awarded the Ramsden/Sullivan Memorial Award to Robert B. Suhr and slated its officers and directors for 2010 at its annual meeting.Suhr is a Santa Clara, Calif.,...
Jan 29 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...
Jan 28 2010 // Law enforcement agents from Britain and Iceland searched the premises of Icelandic insurer Exista HF on Tuesday in a probe related to the trading of shares in other companies.The company said Tuesday its offices in...
Jan 28 2010 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID) reported that a former Kansas City-area insurance agent has been convicted on federal charges of insurance and mortgage fraud, and handed a 15-year jail term.Investigators from the KID...
Jan 28 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...
Jan 27 2010 // In a victory for ratings agencies, a U.S. judge Tuesday dismissed claims against Moody’s Corp. and McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s in litigation over nearly $100 billion of Lehman Brothers Holdings...
Jan 27 2010 // Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun.Who are you? What do you really think about your career? About your industry?...
Jan 26 2010 // Schenectady, NY – January 26, 2010 – docSTAR, the leading provider of insurance document management software, has released a brand new module called SubmissionXpress.SubmissionXpress is a powerful addition to...
Jan 26 2010 // Limestone Insurance, Lexington Insurance Agency, Inc., Durrett Insurance and Insuramax have joined Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), bringing KIG’s number of agencies in Kentucky to six. Keystone is the nation’s...
Jan 26 2010 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has revoked the licenses to sell insurance of Daniel Martin Deitz of Bloomingdale and his Schaumburg-based agency Danny Martin CLU and Associates (collectively “Martin”) and...
Jan 25 2010 // A 63-year-old former bookkeeper at a Dalton, Georgia insurance brokerage is facing federal charges she embezzled more than $1 million from her employer.Prosecutors say Carolyn Lynn Cherry of Chatsworth forged her...