All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 4 2007 // Despite a soft property and casualty (P/C) insurance market, the top 100 banks in insurance made substantial gains in the past year, says a new report distributed by the Bank Insurance & Securities AssociationThe...
Dec 3 2007 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers based in San Raphael, Calif., has appointed of Adam Cox as director of wellness, to implement a fitness and wellness program for all employees. In this role, Cox will be charged with...
Dec 2 2007 // Insurance agents in Massachusetts support the state’s move to managed competition in private passenger auto insurance but oppose insurers’ use of credit scoring in rating or underwriting.They are expecting a...
Dec 2 2007 // In a poem written 2,000 years ago by Horace, he used the phrase “carpe diem,” which is commonly translated as “seize the day.” Although interpretations of this phrase vary, one interpretation can...
Dec 2 2007 // The insurance industry survives on relationships built between agents and carriers. The two parties can strive for a harmonious partnership with few problems. Yet when communications break down and there are disagreements,...
Dec 2 2007 // As the financial services industry has evolved since deregulation, there has been a rise in “bancassurance: the joint effort of banks and insurers to provide insurance services to the bank’s customer...
Dec 2 2007 // On Agents and Brokers“Let me be clear about how I feel about agents and brokers. The agents and brokers are in the trenches every day, fighting for consumers. They’re the ones that have to deal with the...
Dec 2 2007 // Kyle Stevens was elected president and CEO of Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers based in Pasadena, Calif.Stevens was promoted to chief operating officer in 2005 and was charged with overseeing all offices of the...
Dec 2 2007 // While the position of California Insurance Commissioner is elected and there are already rumblings that he’d make a good gubernatorial candidate in 2010, current California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says...
Dec 2 2007 // Only the most naive person would say it is not necessary to hire an attorney for a civil litigation. It is that same naiveté that might cause owners of a business to represent themselves in a transaction that is, most...
Nov 29 2007 // FBI agents who searched the law offices of Mississippi attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs on Tuesday left with copies of the office’s computer hard drives, a lawyer for the firm said Wednesday.Joey...
Nov 29 2007 // Chatsworth, Calif.-based Compass Insurance Group of Agencies has hired Paul D. Laufer as senior broker to spearhead the growth of Compass Insurance Group of Agencies. Over the past five years, Laufer was with a local...
Nov 27 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers recently promoted Matt Carpenter to broker in the company’s Chicago office. “Matt has performed exceptionally well for us already,” said Tom Dillon, president of...
Nov 27 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers appointed Matt Baxter to the position of assistant vice president and broker for Colemont-Atlanta. Baxter joined Colemont in 2004. Previous to joining Colemont, he worked for three years as an...
Nov 27 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that an independent licensed insurance agent pled no contest to a charge of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case. A Travis County district court sentenced...
Nov 27 2007 // A former Kentucky insurance agent has been indicted on fraud charges after allegedly forging signatures on 114 disability insurance applications.According to court documents, Ray W. Kennedy, 46, of Owensboro, Ky., received...
Nov 27 2007 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers based in Sacramento, Calif., will be collecting toys throughout the state to assist Infinity Insurance’s “Infinity Cares” seventh annual holiday toy...
Nov 21 2007 // North Carolina officials arrested a Fayetteville, N.C., woman and charged her with three counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim LongJessica Rachelle Forde, 32, worked as a...
Nov 21 2007 // Indiana Insurance, a member of Liberty Mutual Group, has been named the 2007 Company of the Year by the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (IIAI), an honor that the company also received in 2006.The IIAI Company of...
Nov 20 2007 // As the holiday shopping season unofficially kicks off this week, about 42 million American households plan to give or receive high-tech electronic products this year. However, about seven out of eight households...