All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2008 // The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become outdated and is so abstruse that the industry’s ability to compete is being jeopardized.European risk managers face the same challenges as...
Jan 27 2008 // Every inexperienced agent and seasoned producer is hired with some general production goals in mind. In the first few weeks and months that follow, their managers diligently watch over their new hires, much like they check...
Jan 27 2008 // As insurance companies face larger, more frequent catastrophe losses, they are increasingly playing hardball with their insureds. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes can put pressure on a...
Jan 27 2008 // For excess and surplus lines brokers, identifying available insurance markets not sought by the standard market may be the key to surviving and thriving in the soft market.The answer to growth in a soft market is simple,...
Jan 25 2008 // J. Scott Penny, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown, Inc. and Kevin Mandrell and William Lantrip, principals of Diversified Insurance Brokerage Group, Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind. recently announced the...
Jan 25 2008 // Van Maroevich, president and CEO of MOC Insurance Services/Maroevich, O’Shea & Coghlan, and Peter Brown and Harry Humphrey of Farallon Associates Insurance Brokers, both based in San Francisco, announced the...
Jan 24 2008 // New York agents looking to spruce up their advertisements better pay attention to the list of insurers they represent.And their insurers’ addresses. That’s because any agent or broker that lists in advertising...
Jan 24 2008 // The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3959, sponsored by Financial Services Committee Chairman, Barney Frank (D-Mass.), and Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), legislation that would gradually phase-out some of the subsidies...
Jan 24 2008 // A California legislator on Wednesday introduced a lending-regulation bill that seeks to mandate the obvious — that people who want to buy a home can actually afford the mortgage, property taxes and insurance.The...
Jan 24 2008 // Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes today unveiled AgentFinder, a Division of Insurance Web site designed to make it easier for Massachusetts consumers to find insurance agents and insurance products in...
Jan 23 2008 // January 23 2008 – Orange, CA – G.J. Sullivan Co., a member of Los Angeles-based The Sullivan Group, has appointed Sharon Haenig as Commercial Lines Manager for its office in Orange, CA. Sharon will be...
Jan 23 2008 // The Young Agents of North Carolina have raised $70,000 to fund the construction of a Habitat for Humanity house. The Young Agents are partnering with Habitat for Humanity of Wake County.During the past year, the...
Jan 23 2008 // John Miller, chief executive officer of Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates announced the recent addition of Michael Ludt of Irvine, Calif., as a broker for the Healthcare/Medical Malpractice Division for the Mountain...
Jan 23 2008 // A Bernalillo County, N.M., grand jury has indicted an Albuquerque insurance agent on multiple charges of insurance fraud, embezzlement and racketeering. Jorge Gimenez, 58, was being held in the Bernalillo County...
Jan 22 2008 // The Bermuda-based Everest Re Group announced that it has completed the previously announced detailed study of its potential asbestos exposures, and will take a “net pre-tax charge of $311 million related to the...
Jan 22 2008 // Dallas-based insurance wholesaler, RISC, announced the addition of Martin Sommers to its brokerage team. Additionally, RISC promoted Mike Lehde to senior vice president and Jack Bailey to vice president.Sommers has more...
Jan 22 2008 // A glass-eating gypsy, a teacher who faked terminal cancer, and an insurance agent who killed homeless clients are among the top insurance swindlers of 2007. These convicted thieves were inducted into the Insurance Fraud...
Jan 18 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...
Jan 17 2008 // Burns & Wilcox recently announced that Jeffrey Brown has joined the company’s Farmington, Mich. office as a broker. Brown will be responsible for placing business for large complex risks, including large...
Jan 17 2008 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported that a Shreveport bail bond agent has been arrested, issued a cease and desist order, a revocation of his license and fine for the felony crime of filing false public...