All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2008 // CNinsure Inc., a leading independent insurance agency and brokerage company operating in China, is acquiring majority interests in Changsha Lianyi Insurance Agency Co., Ltd. (Lianyi) and Jiangmen Fanhua Zhicheng Insurance...
Jan 31 2008 // Calif. Broker Wood Gutmann & Bogart Opens Redlands Office Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers, based in Tustin, Calif., announced that it is now the broker of record for Pacific Risk Management and Services...
Jan 31 2008 // As the issue of credit scoring continues to be the subject of state legislative proposals, insurance agents in Colorado are celebrating the defeat of a bill that would have prohibited property/casualty insurers from using...
Jan 31 2008 // Farmers Group Inc. says it plans to recruit and train 400 new agents in the Milwaukee and Madison areas in an expansion that the insurer says could ultimately create 1,000 new jobs in Wisconsin.The company will invest...
Jan 30 2008 // Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers, LLC, a Los Angeles-based wholesale and specialty insurance broker focusing on high-risk, hard-to-place coverage, has opened a new office in Scottsdale, Ariz., to help meet the...
Jan 30 2008 // Itasca, Illinois-based insurance brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported a drop in profit for the fourth quarter and announced it would sell its global reinsurance operation and its small Ireland-based wholesale...
Jan 29 2008 // A new decision by a Pennsylvania court could have far-ranging implications on what happens to an insurance agency’s book of business if a carrier terminates its contract.The decision, rendered last week by Judge...
Jan 29 2008 // Columbus, OH, Jan 29 2008 – InsuranceLeadz.com, Inc. has just launched a new comprehensive lead verification service called LeadReady™.LeadReady™ allows InsuranceLeadz.com to instantly review and check every lead...
Jan 29 2008 // Massachusetts independent agents are facing a challenge to hang onto their whopping 86 percent market share in personal lines as the state embarks upon a new competitive auto insurance system that will bring some of the...
Jan 29 2008 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) confirmed today that it has reached settlements with nine states and the District of Columbia relating to their investigations into alleged bid-rigging and price-fixing and...
Jan 28 2008 // EADS, the European consortium that designs and builds the Airbus coimmercial aircraft, has selected Willis Group Holdings as the insurance broker for a new Airbus A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, China – the...
Jan 28 2008 // Independent insurance agents in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania now have access to a five-component, Web-based resource created to simplify agency management.The HR Solution includes an audit survey, employee handbook...
Jan 27 2008 // Swett & Crawford appointed Meredith Dyson as senior vice president. Dyson, who will assist the company with its marketing efforts and other related activities, will be based in New York.Most recently, Dyson was with...
Jan 27 2008 // Continuing education is a fact of life for all agents and brokers. Because states require CE credits, it translates into the reality of a continuous, and often repetitive, obligation — a career-long commitment of time...
Jan 27 2008 // Continuing education (CE) is a fact of life for all agents and brokers. Since states require CE credits, the reality can be a continuous and often repetitive obligation — a career-long commitment of time and attention...
Jan 27 2008 // Taken as a group, the nation’s largest public insurance brokers did better in 2007 than 2006, although the continuing soft market will make it harder for them to improve a lot on the 2007 performance in 2008,...
Jan 27 2008 // In the largest survey of its kind, fewer than half of California’s 10,000 business insurance agents see California’s business economy improving, either for themselves or for their clients, in 2008.The study...
Jan 27 2008 // An insurer’s success rests largely in the expertise of its underwriters. As the U.S. Department of Labor noted in its Career Overview series, “Great trust is placed in underwriters as an insurance company may...
Jan 27 2008 // Managing insurance cycles to maintain profitability is a tricky proposition. Higher premiums produced by hard markets provide more income, but it may be difficult to find coverage for troublesome risks. Plus, customers are...
Jan 27 2008 // Zurich named Kevin Dunham senior vice president and global relationship leader for the western region of its Global Corporate in North America Business unit. Dunham is based in Glendale, Calif., and will manage accounts...