All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 9 2009 // Chicago-based insurance broker Hub International Limited has acquired Mones & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc., one of the largest personal and commercial insurance brokers in western and northern Canada with...
Nov 6 2009 // Tony Campisi and Bill Kronenberg used to tease each other about merging their two Pennsylvania brokerage organizations. Just about a year ago, they started talking for real. On the last day of December, 2008, the deal was...
Nov 6 2009 // Willis Group Holdings announced plans to expand its successful Willis Commercial Network business model for serving independent brokers from its base in the UK to countries around the world.Willis selected Mark Radburn...
Nov 6 2009 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Company is going to have to pay the defense costs of the two former agents the insurance company fired, and then sued, according to a court decision handed down last week.The well-known dispute...
Nov 5 2009 // Tal P. Piccione, Chairman and CEO of international reinsurance brokerage firm U.S. RE Corp., announced that it “has formed a strategic, exclusive, and reciprocal alliance with San Segur, a prominent insurance and...
Nov 4 2009 // North Carolina officials said that Jennifer Hughes Puckett, a former insurance agent from Rockingham, appeared this week in Carthage at the Moore County District Court and pleaded guilty to 16 counts of embezzlement by an...
Nov 3 2009 // Insurance industry software provider Vertafore has released version 4.0 of its AMS360 management system with advancements that promise to simplify marketing and sales tasks for the more than 2,800 agencies currently using...
Nov 3 2009 // Raleigh, North Carolina-based BB&T Insurance Services, the nation’s seventh largest insurance broker, said it has expanded its southwest Florida operation with the acquisition of Oswald Trippe and Co. Inc. of...
Nov 3 2009 // The Smart Choice Agents Program, which currently serves 3,000 independent agencies in more than 30 states, announces the expansion of the program into Oregon. Kurt Van Sickle has been named the state’s...
Nov 2 2009 // Federal prosecutors say a Waterbury businessman has admitted to ripping off more than $1.3 million from clients that authorities say was used to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos.The U.S. Attorney’s office said...
Nov 2 2009 // A woman who faked being an automobile insurance agent, Leandra Delgadillo, 32, of Canyon Country has been arrested and booked into jail at the San Fernando Police Department on felony charges of fraud and grand theft.She...
Nov 1 2009 // Eagan Insurance Agency, based in Metairie, La., has added six insurance professionals to its staff.Joining the family business are Andrew Eagan and David Strassel, both members of the fifth generation of the Eagan family...
Nov 1 2009 // David Daniel was inaugurated as the chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) at the recent Big “I” Leadership Conference in New Orleans, La. He will lead...
Nov 1 2009 // I have been an insurance broker since 1974. However, my principal occupation is attorney, practicing in insurance law. I have had many conversations with insurance agency managers, insurance agents and customer service...
Nov 1 2009 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has issued a cease-and-desist order against insurance agent Robert Warren Spruill for violating the Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act and the Oregon...
Nov 1 2009 // Independent insurance agents have had plenty to fret about the past year, including falling revenues. Thus stability in the market and pricing for their errors and omissions (E&O) insurance meant there was one less...
Nov 1 2009 // Any producer, agent or broker can be exposed to the insolvency of one of their markets. Carriers providing insurance agents’ errors and omissions insurance (E&O) have developed a variety of responses to the...
Oct 30 2009 // Global professional services firm Towers Perrin has named Steve Levene practice leader for its retail insurance brokerage business.Levene’s responsibilities will include strategic risk management programs for...
Oct 30 2009 // Aon Corp. reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009, which show net income attributable to Aon stockholders was up slightly at $120 million or $0.41 per share, compared to $117 million or $0.40 per...
Oct 29 2009 // M.J. Hall and Company of Alaska Inc.’s Suzy Baird has been re-elected as Associate Director of the Alaska Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers Inc..Baird was also awarded the AAMGA award for outstanding...