All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2008 // Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in which veterans’ personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses, investigators have...
Feb 24 2008 // Two independent agencies from South Central states were among the six insurance firms from across the country recognized in January 2008 as “Top Performing Agencies” by the Independent Insurance Agents &...
Feb 24 2008 // For years, property casualty (P/C) agencies have been making the jump into offering personal insurance — life, long-term care and disability — as an adjunct to their traditional products. Brokers have realized that the...
Feb 24 2008 // In February 2002, Insurance Journal reported that Congress and the Bush Administration had reached a deal whereby the trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement could finally be implemented....
Feb 24 2008 // While American International Group Inc. sought to downplay its miscalculation of losses on a derivatives portfolio as not “material to the company,” Wall Street was abuzz with speculation over whether the...
Feb 24 2008 // San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC named Jim O’Connell principal. He also will serve as director of development for programs, specialty insurance solutions. In that role, he is responsible for both regional and...
Feb 24 2008 // There are always hidden issues that can blow up in any industry. The marina industry is no different.Many marinas are tenants of port districts, counties, cities, state lands, and federal lands whose often stringent...
Feb 24 2008 // Top 100 Agency Profile RANKING: No. 4 Keystone Insurers Group Headquarters: Northumberland, Pa. Year Founded: 1983 Additional Locations: 204 locations 2006 Premium Volume: Total: $912.5 million % Commercial: 60 percent %...
Feb 24 2008 // Commissions have a long history as the incentive of choice for insurance brokerage firms. They create a clear link between revenue and compensation. They also provide an equation that agents, on their first day, can do in...
Feb 24 2008 // Stock Prices: Brokerage stocks mimicked the overall uneasiness of the stock market during January. Hilb Rogal & Hobbs (NYSE:HRH) traded down 11.2 percent while Arthur J. Gallagher traded up 5 percent. Overall the...
Feb 22 2008 // Lockton Companies added Mary Guzman to its Atlanta brokerage team as senior vice president and producer for all property and casualty lines.The addition of Guzman expands Lockton’s Atlanta-based professional...
Feb 22 2008 // A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a civil lawsuit against major U.S. chemical companies brought by Vietnamese plaintiffs over the use of dioxin, or “agent orange,” during the...
Feb 22 2008 // Accident Fund Insurance Company of America recently recognized agencies by presenting its 2007 President’s Club Awards.The award is presented each year to a select number of independent insurance agencies that work...
Feb 22 2008 // Insurance Journal is polling insurance agents and brokers nationwide in its quest to find out who’s worth what in the independent agency system. More than 1,600 agencies nationwide have already responded to Insurance...
Feb 20 2008 // Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that its subsidiary, Risk Placement Services Inc., acquired Leicht General Agency, headquartered in Houston. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in...
Feb 19 2008 // A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services have taken slightly different views of France’s AXA Group’s agreement to purchase 100 percent of the share capital of the ING Group’s...
Feb 19 2008 // Marsh got a chance to deliver some good news, when the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) ranked it number one out of China’s top 20 intermediaries based on annual invoiced revenue.The survey published in...
Feb 19 2008 // A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling against the Sioux Falls man who held an insurance executive hostage in 1991.Eric Castaneira, who served 10 years for kidnapping, filed a lawsuit against the...
Feb 19 2008 // Insurance Journal is polling insurance agents and brokers nationwide in its annual quest to find out who’s worth what in the independent agency system. Nearly 1,000 agencies nationwide have already responded to...
Feb 14 2008 // This winter’s flooding has prompted state insurance regulators to require a training course for agents selling flood coverage.Those already selling insurance will have to take a continuing-education course of at...