All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 15 2008 // A 59-year-old former New York insurance broker who sold insurance despite having his license revoked in 2002 was sentenced to five years’ probation yesterday for pocketing $90,000 in premiums from businesses in...
Oct 15 2008 // The Phoenix office of Lockton Companies LLC appointed insurance industry veteran J. Robert Howard as producer for all property and casualty lines.Howard’s credentials include more than 20 years in the insurance...
Oct 14 2008 // The very strengths in its balance sheet, surplus, underwriting and personnel that have made the Commercial Insurance unit of American International Group (AIG) a market leader are keeping it competitive even while the...
Oct 13 2008 // The Massachusetts insurance commissioner, addressing a concern of some insurers, is considering eliminating the unique right under which Bay State drivers have been able to appeal auto premium surcharges they consider...
Oct 10 2008 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents & Brokers is offering a new errors and omissions program for its members. The program offers rates as low as $1,500 per year, broad coverage and various options through the American...
Oct 10 2008 // HSBC Insurance Brokers Limited announced that it has established a branch office and received regulatory approval from the Qatar Financial Center (QFC) Authority to provide insurance broking services to corporate customers...
Oct 10 2008 // Angelo Ganguzza, vice president of Boca Raton, Fla.-based LIG Insurance Agency and Kimberly “Kim” Langston Gray, managing partner of Langston Insurance Agency in central Florida, accepted election to the...
Oct 10 2008 // American International Group’s meltdown may serve at least one (if not more) positive purpose: spotlighting the difference between the insurance professional and the non-professional.Insurance professionals will have...
Oct 10 2008 // Galveston, Texas-based American National Insurance Company and its subsidiary, American National Property and Casualty Company learned shortly after Hurricane Ike that one of its agents had failed to forward to the Texas...
Oct 10 2008 // AMG, an independent privately-owned brokerage general agency based in Houston, has announced it is now managing general agent for Starmark to offer healthcare for small businesses.Starmark features a wide range of...
Oct 10 2008 // Real time technology is giving agencies immediate access to carrier information on their clients, allowing agencies to quickly and efficiently transact quotes, billing inquiries, endorsements, loss runs, policy views, and...
Oct 7 2008 // A federal appeals court in Mississippi rejected Ecru insurance agent Ken Nowlin’s claim that his 30-month sentence for his role in a kickback scheme was too harsh.Nowlin was sentenced in February. He pleaded guilty...
Oct 7 2008 // With the passage of the $700 billion rescue package, the financial industry will face greater congressional scrutiny in coming weeks and months.Further-reaching regulation is almost certain. Previously obscure corners of...
Oct 7 2008 // Narragansett Bay Insurance Co. has entered into a renewal rights agreement with Adirondack Insurance Exchange that should bring to the company 4,500 Long Island homeowner’s policies with approximately $10 million in...
Oct 6 2008 // The Los Angeles-based Sullivan Group has announced the formation of Sullivan Brokers, Wholesale Insurance Solutions Inc., a national wholesale brokerage firm with an emphasis on professional, management and health care...
Oct 6 2008 // A Fargo insurance agent has pleaded not guilty to stealing more than $5 million from clients. Larry Atkins is charged with 78 felony counts, including engaging in fraudulent practices and selling unregistered securities....
Oct 6 2008 // National insurance program administrator Venture Insurance Programs named Michael DeMarco executive vice president for its Preferred Club Program. He will be responsible for the overall success of the insurance program for...
Oct 6 2008 // National insurance program administrator Venture Insurance Programs named Michael DeMarco executive vice president for its Preferred Club Program. He will be responsible for the overall success of the insurance program for...
Oct 6 2008 // An autopsy says the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator that was found in South Carolina in May was so badly decomposed that medical examiners can’t determine how she died. The autopsy report released...