All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2009 // A trade group for New Jersey Insurance Agents is applauding proposal that would let agents collect fees from commercial-lines clients for some specialized services.The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey (PIANJ)...
Feb 10 2009 // Independent insurance and financial services firm Higginbotham & Associates added two brokers to its Austin, Texas, office.Higginbotham named Chris Camero an executive vice president for group benefits and Travis...
Feb 9 2009 // Senior Market Sales, Inc. has partnered with CalSurance (Brown and Brown of California, Inc.) to offer errors and omissions insurance at discounted rates for life and health insurance agents who do business with Senior...
Feb 8 2009 // No Scapegoats in Mississippi“We will continue to work with all companies in providing an available, accountable and affordable market in Mississippi, and look for solutions, not scapegoats, in solving the insurance...
Feb 8 2009 // We Insurance Journal writers are fortunate in that we get to speak with a lot of good folks from company CEOs and agency principals to state regulators and experienced underwriters. They come in all accents, ages and...
Feb 8 2009 // Former Iowa Insurance Commissioner Therese M. Vaughan, Ph.D., has been named chief executive officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), effective Feb. 18, 2009.Vaughan replaces Catherine J....
Feb 8 2009 // A recent development may have agents feeling cautiously optimistic that they will have an opportunity go after a larger slice of the mid-sized business pie as Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group shuttles direct distribution...
Feb 8 2009 // In this hard economy coupled with the soft market, most agencies expect sales and revenues to go down. Even the best performers feel the downward trend in premiums.According to Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for...
Feb 8 2009 // The independent insurance agency system is enjoying a resurgence. For years, the number of agencies in the country had been declining but that trend, while not reversed, has been halted. The number in 2008 was 37,500...
Feb 8 2009 // A common practice by insurance carriers is to inform their agents that they should not send the company copies of certificates of insurance when they are issued. This is most likely the result of mail-flow issues with the...
Feb 8 2009 // Liberty Mutual Group is throwing in the towel on direct distribution of insurance to middle market businesses. Because it couldn’t beat independent agents and brokers — who dominate sales in this segment...
Feb 8 2009 // The independent insurance agency system is enjoying a resurgence. For years, the number of agencies nationwide declined, but that trend has halted. There were 37,500 agencies in 2008 — the same as in 2006, according...
Feb 8 2009 // 37,500The number of number of independent agencies nationwide, according to the “2008 Future One Agency Universe Study,” sponsored by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, Trusted Choice and...
Feb 8 2009 // A common practice by insurance carriers is to inform their agents that they should not send the company copies of certificates of insurance when they are issued. This is most likely the result of mail-flow issues with the...
Feb 8 2009 // In this hard economy coupled with the soft market, most agencies expect sales and revenues to go down. Even the best performers feel the downward trend in premiums.According to Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for...
Feb 8 2009 // There have been an increasing number of lawsuits brought against agents in situations where the client/policyholder does not have sufficient liability coverage limits to pay for the liability exposure caused by an...
Feb 8 2009 // Going for the big fish may bring in big returns but some agencies think having a strategic plan to go after all those little fish is just as important. Three of the largest agencies in the country say having small business...
Feb 8 2009 // While today’s economic environment presents some challenges for many companies large and small, independent agents who understand and embrace those challenges can help solve problems for their clients and even create...
Feb 8 2009 // Business owner policies, traditionally referred to simply as BOPs, were introduced in 1976 and significantly revised in 1987. The BOP evolved gradually since the 1987 revisions to include risk classification and sizes not...
Feb 6 2009 // Aon Corp., the largest global insurance brokerage by assets, reported that net income fell 95 percent in the fourth quarter as it incurred costs related to restructuring and its merger with Benfield Group.Net income was...