All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2009 // National managing general agent Burns & Wilcox has promoted Anthony Cugini to manager of the company’s Houston office. He is responsible for increasing sales across all product lines, including professional...
Jan 11 2009 // Alaska — Ignition Interlock Devices – HB 19, which took effect Jan. 1, 2009, limits driver’s license privileges relating to the crime of avoidance of ignition interlock devices when a person knowingly...
Jan 11 2009 // The California Department of Insurance is reminding producers of new licensing laws that took effect Jan. 1, 2009, as a result of the passage of Assembly Bill 2044. Several changes resulted from the bill, including many...
Jan 11 2009 // It has been said that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” That also raises the question, what happens to the boat when the tide goes down? The answer is that when the tide falls — or when the waters get...
Jan 11 2009 // Top 100 Agency Profile RANKING: No. 7 Agency Name: The Hylant Group Headquarters: Toledo, Ohio Year Founded: 1935 Additional Locations: 11 other offices in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee 2007 Property/Casualty...
Jan 11 2009 // Commercial construction insurance brokers from the northeast to the west coast, from Texas all the way to North Carolina, say the market and their business right now are not as bad as might be expected from reading daily...
Jan 9 2009 // Nicholas Schroeder is the first executive director of the new Surplus Lines Association of Minnesota (SLAM), a non-profit organization of brokers of insurance that is placed with companies that are not licensed in...
Jan 6 2009 // Nine states have reached a $7 million settlement with New York-based insurance broker Marsh, Inc., Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., resolving a four-year investigation into Marsh’s role in a nationwide bid...
Jan 5 2009 // An Arkansas insurance agent accused of bilking retiree investors out of tens of thousands of dollars and converting the money to his own use is being sought by the Arkansas Securities Department.Terry Mitchell of...
Jan 5 2009 // 2008 can be described as a year like no other in the property/casualty insurance world. This year we saw the near death of the world’s largest and most successful insurance company, AIG. The soft market continued to...
Jan 5 2009 // Ask agents and executives in the insurance industry about the new year and they’ll say they expect that the market will harden, at least slightly. In fact, 73 percent of agents predict prices will firm, according to...
Dec 29 2008 // A new electronic system to verify automobile insurance in Oklahoma is operational, but not yet reliable.A law passed in 2006 takes effect Jan. 1, 2009, allowing law enforcement agencies and tag agents to check for...
Dec 29 2008 // Los Angeles-based Worldwide Facilities Inc., has hired new brokers in its Property & Casualty and Financial Services departments. Joe Smith has joined the company as a directors and officers broker in the Seattle...
Dec 29 2008 // Short Hills, New Jersey-based insurance agency Bollinger Inc. has acquired BK International Insurance Brokers of Greenwich, Connecticut.The acquisition is the second this month and the fourth this quarter for Bollinger,...
Dec 23 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long reports that Kenneth Rick Morrow of Marion, a licensed insurance agent, was arrested last week and charged with nine counts of embezzlement, nine counts of obtaining property...
Dec 23 2008 // A trade group for Massachusetts insurance agents has asked the state’s top regulator to force Progressive Insurance to take down its Web site, which agents say routinely gives inaccurate quotes — particularly...
Dec 23 2008 // The nation’s longest serving insurance commissioner, former Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale, will share his unique post-Katrina insights on the regulatory challenges in the aftermath of large-scale...
Dec 23 2008 // Clancy Marie Johannsen has been promoted to branch vice president of the El Segundo, Calif., office of Insurance Specialty Group, LLC ‘s Professional Liability Group.Frederick J. Fisher, executive vice president and...
Dec 21 2008 // A new study by an industry trade group has found that the decade-long contraction in the number of insurance agencies has ceased during the past two years — a move industry insiders say is driven by a slowdown in...
Dec 21 2008 // Transactions involving agencies and brokerages other than the Brown & Brown, Arthur J. Gallagher and Hub International (see below) deals in the months announced or completed: January California: R.E. Chaix &...