All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2009 // Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be drunk drivers, robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists.They got their producer licenses in...
Aug 21 2009 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing a partnership to facilitate capacity...
Aug 20 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work?Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
Aug 19 2009 // Robert Benmosche, the newly appointed chief executive of AIG, has started to cut up the insurer’s restructuring plan, deciding it is better to hold on to an investment advisory unit that is part of the...
Aug 19 2009 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario met with yesterday with directors of the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group board of directors to discuss a number of key insurance issues in the Keystone State.Of...
Aug 19 2009 // The Galveston (Texas) Fire Department is still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Ike, and in addition to flood damage to various firehouses, several of the department’s portable radios were damaged or...
Aug 18 2009 // At first glance, Kathryn Soderberg would seem an unlikely candidate for an insurance agent whose expertise in marketing to Hispanic customers lands her gigs on radio talk shows and leading Hispanic market training sessions...
Aug 18 2009 // Unsurprisingly, the industries whose reputations have been most badly hurt in the last 12 months are car manufacturers (down 31 points), banks (down 24 points), and investment and brokerage firms (down 27 points),...
Aug 18 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has issued a cease and desist order to Floyd Sheridan, a Baltic, S.D., insurance agent who is alleged to have sold, solicited or negotiated insurance to a Barnes County, N.D....
Aug 18 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work?Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
Aug 17 2009 // Stockbridge, Georgia-based wholesale insurance broker, Gresham & Associates, has promoted Marianne Curington and Kittie Thomas to be associate brokers. Curington and Thomas have served 11 and 7 years respectively in...
Aug 17 2009 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has issued a bulletin expressing concerns over a new ruling in the US state of Illinois that allows brokers to resume taking contingent commissions.The...
Aug 17 2009 // Lloyd’s has announced that Miller, a Lloyd’s broker, and Aspen Re were the first to send a message – an energy quotation request, using ACORD data standards – across its Lloyd’s Exchange...
Aug 17 2009 // Colorado’s dominant workers compensation insurer last week defended its spending on travel and entertainment for its agents, telling Colorado lawmakers it’s good for morale and helps lower costs in the long...
Aug 17 2009 // A Shreveport, La., area agent has been issued a cease and desist order, license revocation notice and fine notice for alleged misrepresentation, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported.Tanya Mclain Weems was served...
Aug 17 2009 // When asked to pen a piece to end this issue, I asked myself, “what is the best way to end an issue focused on recreation and leisure?” I truly have no idea; agents have no time for such frivolity. Our time is...
Aug 17 2009 // There are far easier ways to spend one’s leisure hours than slogging through tough early-morning runs, pedaling through sunburns and saddle sores and accidentally swallowing gulps of salt-, lake- or chlorinated...
Aug 17 2009 // Thanks to automation advances, insurance agency tasks that took hours can be done in a matter of minutes. Multiple data entry and one-by-one Web site visits have been replaced by management system-based processing, with no...
Aug 17 2009 // Insurance Journal magazine has won gold and silver editorial awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors’ western regional awards competition, recognizing the magazine for its editorial...
Aug 17 2009 // It’s summer, do you know where your homeowners insurance customers are? Perhaps they’re out on a lake somewhere, playing on rented jet skis or blowing with a gentle wind in a borrowed sailboat. Do they know...