All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 15 2008 // The nation’s bank holding companies experienced a slight increase of 0.5 percent in their total insurance revenue from $43.5 billion in 2006 to $43.7 billion in 2007.Citigroup Inc. (N.Y.), Wells Fargo & Co....
Apr 11 2008 // OneBeacon Insurance Group and Hagerty Insurance Agency and Hagerty Classic Marine Insurance Agency, collector car and classic boat insurance agencies, are now collaboratively providing property and casualty insurance...
Apr 11 2008 // Why do retail agents and brokers choose a particular wholesale broker or managing general agency to work with over another? What’s more important to a retailer — service or price?Insurance Journal invites...
Apr 11 2008 // The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated Nevada’s insurance producer countersignature law in what could be the final nail in the coffin for these requirements on nonresident producers.U.S. District Judge...
Apr 10 2008 // Massachusetts will permit auto insurers to sell six-month policies in another change under the state’s newly operational managed competition system that gives insurers more freedom and drivers more...
Apr 10 2008 // Lincoln, CA – April 10, 2008 – Agency Management Resource Group, a training, education and consulting firm serving independent insurance agencies, has announced the launch of the nation’s first producer...
Apr 8 2008 // SAN DIEGO – (April 8, 2008) – Due to the success of it’s inaugural Exchange conference, MyNewMarkets.com, has scheduled two additional conferences in San Diego, California on September 4, 2008 and Dallas,...
Apr 8 2008 // If you run your business as if you will choose to perpetuate you’re maximizing value,” says John Wepler, president of the consulting firm Marsh Berry & Co. Then, whether you decide to sell your agency to a...
Apr 8 2008 // The University of Kansas men’s basketball team may have been the big winner at last night’s NCAA championship — but when it comes to the NCAA’s bonanza of sponsorship benefits from basketball and...
Apr 7 2008 // Collectify LLC has released its new Collectify Home Inventor Edition software at special pricing to insurance professionals so they can provide it as a value-added service to personal lines insurance clients.During 2005...
Apr 7 2008 // A Harlingen, Texas, insurance agent is accused in a federal indictment of providing cash, plane tickets and condo rentals to some Edcouch-Elsa school district officials in exchange for public contracts.Arnulfo Olivarez was...
Apr 7 2008 // Agents across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states are worried about how they and their customers will fare as the region’s economy continues to slow.“An agent’s business is a direct reflection of his...
Apr 7 2008 // Agents who have lived and worked through previous recessions say business fundamentals that make sense in any economic environment ring doubly true in down times.“To weather the storm, agents need to do what they...
Apr 7 2008 // It starts with the housing market. Then it seeps into construction, typically residential followed by commercial. Then it travels to manufacturing, then retail, then hospitality. It differs by region. It might be worse in...
Apr 7 2008 // Quite a few insurers’ names have been bounced and bandied about like basketballs on TV lately, and it’s not by accident; it’s a high profile benefit of some of the industry’s major players having...
Apr 7 2008 // In the face of growing economic turmoil the Bush administration is calling for an overhaul of system of regulating the nation’s financial services industries — including insurance. The reform proposal announced...
Apr 7 2008 // When it comes to dealing with a recession, independent agents in Michigan carry the dubious distinction of having more experience than their counterparts in other Midwest states.Michigan has been knee deep in a recession...
Apr 7 2008 // State Farm insurance agent Darin Morton has had a fully functioning fire truck parked in front of his office in the Charlotte, N.C. suburb of Pineville for six years.But The Charlotte Observer reports that...
Apr 7 2008 // It starts with the housing market. Then it seeps into construction, typically residential followed by commercial. Then it travels to manufacturing, then retail, then hospitality. It differs by region. It might be worse in...
Apr 7 2008 // Southeast insurance agents do not all agree the economy is in a recession or on the causes of the slumping economy, but they do agree the dominoes are in place that could trigger a serious economic chain reaction.Roger...