All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2022 // A majority of independent insurance agents (53%) are expecting a significant increase in online commercial insurance buyers over the next three years, according to a survey from Semsee, a platform for small-commercial...
Jul 25 2022 // BMS Group, the independent specialist re/insurance broker, announce the acquisition of Calomex, the Mexico City-based specialist reinsurance broker, by BMS Re.The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in...
Jul 22 2022 // Two long-time New Hampshire insurance agencies— The Insurance Center based in Claremont and McCrillis & Eldredge in Newport— announced that their companies are joining forces.The combined organization will continue...
Jul 21 2022 // The Western Insurance Agents Association and the Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers have joined forces.The board of directors of PIIB, based on El Dorado Hills, California, voted to affiliate all its agency-cluster...
Jul 19 2022 // The Jensten Group has acquired UK broker Ravenhall Risk Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is subject to approval by the FCA, bolsters Jensten’s regional presence in Yorkshire and is the Group’s...
Jul 18 2022 // The Independent Insurance Association of Georgia has installed longtime member Michael Iverson as president of the organization. Iverson is CEO of the M.D. Iverson Group, an insurance agency in Fairburn, Georgia. He has...
Jul 18 2022 // I know a thing or two about helping agencies grow. In fact, I’ve helped hundreds of entrepreneurs create independent insurance agencies. From this experience, I’ve learned growth is a fairly straightforward...
Jul 15 2022 // Mathis, Tibbets & Mathis, a 36-year-old independent broker of commercial and personal property/casualty insurance, surety bonds and employee benefits plans, based in Memphis, has been acquired by...
Jul 13 2022 // New Jersey-headquartered Specialty Program Group (SPG) said it has acquired ESP Insurance Brokerage, a national insurance broker and program administrator for the sports, events and promotion marketing and entertainment...
Jul 13 2022 // Insurance broker NFP has established a captive management firm in Canada following Alberta’s establishment of a regime for captive insurance for organizations wanting to self-insure against risk instead of buying...
Jul 13 2022 // A New Jersey insurance agency has failed to convince two courts that a landscape gardening insurance policy for a long-time client was ambiguous enough to also cover tree removal.The agency also struck out with its...
Jul 11 2022 // Digital insurer Ranger said it just closed a $5.25 million seed round to further its development of a digital platform that promises to modernize the role of insurance agents, evolving their role into a home protection...
Jul 11 2022 // Dan Alexander has seen the worst of the Florida property insurance market from the inside-out – from agents who’ve quit to carriers that have gone insolvent or stopped writing new business, to having to manage...
Jul 8 2022 // A woman, stunned and speechless in the chaos of a July 4 parade massacre, walked up to Greg Ring and handed him a 2-year-old boy, covered in blood.Ring had fled the scene in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park with his...
Jul 8 2022 // Miller, the independent specialist re/insurance broker, announced the acquisition of Lead Insurance Services Ltd. Lead is based in Tokyo, Japan, and the acquisition cements a longstanding relationship between the two...
Jul 7 2022 // Acrisure Buys Brentwood Claims FirmAcrisure, a fintech company that runs one of the largest insurance brokerage companies, has acquired a Tennessee-based claims services firm. Brentwood Services Inc., which said it...
Jul 5 2022 // Howden, the London-based insurance broker, announced the acquisition of Wallace McLean, which further strengthens its local expertise and provides an enhanced platform for its strategic growth plans in New Zealand. Wallace...
Jul 1 2022 // It has been a few years. Policyholders may have forgotten about that last barbeque mishap in their backyard. Maybe the memory has gotten hazy about that one time their college roommate drove home when they should not have....
Jun 30 2022 // The Hilb Group announced that it has acquired Indiana-based Howe-LaGrange Insurance Agency and Reick Insurance Agency, expanding the company’s growing presence throughout Indiana and the Midwest. Based in LaGrange,...
Jun 29 2022 // Alexandra Bretschneider said it feels like she has been a part-time grim reaper the last two years.The cyber practice leader at broker Johnson, Kendall & Johnson said, “I am just constantly delivering bad...