All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 18 2008 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents named three new board members at its annual conference held June 13-15. Each will serve on the board for a term of three years.Robert S. Ludwig, AIC, vice president of...
Jun 18 2008 // Woodbridge, New Jersey-based wholesale brokerage NIP Group has named Jerry Barry president of its specialty brokerage division, and promoted Dean Mortilla to vice president.Barry moves to the division after serving as...
Jun 18 2008 // Kimberly Muesse, a senior account manager with the Lockton Companies in Katy, Texas, won the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Accredited Customer Service Representative of the Year award at the trade...
Jun 17 2008 // Quarterly earnings from bank insurance brokerage hit their second-highest level in first quarter 2008.Bank insurance brokerage earnings in the first three months of 2008 were $1.078 billion, up 8.6 percent from $993.3...
Jun 17 2008 // Three pieces of legislation will be heard in the Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance committee on Wednesday, June 17, 2008.Assemblyman Jared Huffman’s AB 2800 would allow insurance companies to require drivers to...
Jun 17 2008 // Sarah Marsh has been promoted to broker/underwriter at M.J. Hall and Co. Inc. Marsh has been the marketing representative for M.J. Hall for the past two years. She will focus on property and casualty business for the...
Jun 17 2008 // Texarkana life-long independent insurance agent Don Morriss, was named winner of the highest award given by the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) at the 111th Annual Conference & Trade Show.Morriss is...
Jun 16 2008 // Insurance broker Aon Corp. reported that the five government agencies to its 2005 settlement have agreed to an amendment that will permit companies it acquires to continue to accept contingent commissions on existing...
Jun 16 2008 // Thomas F. Motamed has stepped down as vice chairman and chief operating officer for The Chubb Corp. to become chairman and chief executive officer of CNA Financial Corp., a position he will assume as of June 8,...
Jun 16 2008 // When buying a new or used car, cost is always an issue and car insurance shopping is always a stressful task. Just as some banks now have insurance agencies connected to mortgage lending, a new day has dawned when shoppers...
Jun 16 2008 // This year, 2008 marks the second year that Demotech, Inc., as Insurance Journal‘s Official Research Partner, has published our Company Classification System, including the list of Super Regional Property/Casulaty...
Jun 16 2008 // Huntsville, Ala. insurance executive Wayne Parker and Huntsville attorney Cheryl Baswell Guthrie will be in a runoff for the Republican nomination for the 5th Congressional District seat.Parker nearly won without a runoff...
Jun 16 2008 // PeopleDallas-based Colemont Insurance Brokers promoted Su Young to vice president in Colemont’s Texas office. Young joined Colemont in 2001 as part of the Texas financial services team and is located in Houston. She...
Jun 16 2008 // This year, 2008 marks the second year that Demotech, Inc., as Insurance Journal‘s Official Research Partner, has published our Company Classification System, including the list of Super Regional Property/Casulaty...
Jun 16 2008 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, appointed Pete McPartland president and CEO.McPartland comes from General Casualty in Sun Prairie, Wis., where he led insurance operations for QBE...
Jun 16 2008 // Insurance broker Aon Corp. reported that the five government agencies to its 2005 regulatory settlement agreement agreed to an amendment that will permit companies it acquires to continue to accept contingent commissions...
Jun 16 2008 // Many insurance brokers and agents who perform services for premium finance companies may unwittingly violate certain disclosure requirements under the California Insurance Code because they are unaware that the obligations...
Jun 16 2008 // This year, 2008, marks the second year in a row that Demotech Inc., as Insurance Journal‘s official research partner, published our company classification system, including the list of Super Regional...
Jun 16 2008 // It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens probably was not referring to the insurance industry’s soft market, when he wrote “A Tale of Two Cities,” but his words ring as...
Jun 16 2008 // Once upon a time, there was a very nice man who moved his entire family from one state to another. The move meant leaving his many friends and business contacts behind. Included in these lost contacts was his insurance...