All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2007 // San Diego-based Cavignac & Associates has named Matthew Noonan a new broker in the employee benefits department. Prior to joining Cavignac & Associates, Noonan served worked with John Burnham Insurance, in San...
Dec 21 2007 // A Michigan-based insurer has been fined $230,000 by the Conneticut Department of Insurance for failing to make sure agents were licensed and appointed to sell policies in the state.Foremost Insurance Co., which specializes...
Dec 21 2007 // Cullman County, Ala., Commissioner Wayne Willingham won the Republican nomination for Alabama House District 12 and advances to the general election Jan. 29 against Democrat James C. Fields.In light voting in the...
Dec 20 2007 // Wells Fargo & Co.’s Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. reports it has bought four insurance agencies.The insurance brokerage acquired Technology Insurance Services Inc., Redwood City, Calif; Rogers &...
Dec 18 2007 // The rating agencies have generally been positive about ACE’s acquisition of Aon’s Combined Life Insurance Company and Munich Re’s purchase of Sterling Life. The specific reactions were as follows:A.M....
Dec 17 2007 // Rockwood Programs Inc. has expanded its life, accident and health insurance agent’s E&O product offering to include two new endorsements. One enhancement expands coverage to include incidental property and...
Dec 17 2007 // Editor’s Note: The original version of this story incorrectly identified Mark Solomon, Jr. as being associated with All Auto Insurance Agency Inc. in Richardson and a TIP Board member. Mark Solomon, Jr. is head of...
Dec 17 2007 // Two companies are suing West Virginia’s workers’ compensation writer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. over agent commissions.Aero-Fab Inc. and The Bunch Co. allege that Brickstreet is billing companies for the...
Dec 17 2007 // The Latin American Agents Association has announced its Valor Award winners, honoring the “unsung heroes” of the insurance industry, the men and women who help front-line producers achieve success without any...
Dec 14 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers announced Judd O’Neal’s promotion to broker in the company’s Chicago office. Judd joined Colemont in November 2006 as part of a property brokerage team after four years with a...
Dec 13 2007 // Texas Insurance Professionals recently received the Outstanding Sales Achievement Award from the Utica National Insurance Group.Utica Special Programs Vice President/Director Curtis Pearsall praised Mark Solomon Jr., of...
Dec 12 2007 // The number of reported house fires and fire-related deaths in Michigan increased last year, with many homeowners not maintaining working smoke alarms, according to a report released today by the Michigan Association of...
Dec 12 2007 // A settlement in the amount of $435,298.25 has been reached between Reba Irons of Fort Smith, Ark., and Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America in a case involving John Phillip Middleton, an insurance agent who sold...
Dec 11 2007 // Colemont Insurance Brokers recently announced that it had promoted Andrea Watkins to broker in Colemont’s Chicago office. Watkins joined Colemont in 2004 as part of a casualty brokerage team. Previously she spent two...
Dec 11 2007 // New Jersey insurance agents would no longer be required to offer auto insurance quotes from all of their companies under a bill recently passed by the state’s legislature.The bill, which carries the backing of both...
Dec 10 2007 // North Carolina officials arrested a Linwood, N.C., insurance agent charging her with with five counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent and three counts of providing false statements on an insurance...
Dec 7 2007 // Improvements to New York’s coastal property insurance program and a prohibition against denying some late-reported claims top the list of issues the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York said it will...
Dec 6 2007 // Massacusetts insurance agents dealing with the switch to managed competition are expecting a lot of business movement as a result of the competitive system, with almost one-third (30.7%) predicting they will lose accounts...
Dec 6 2007 // Kentucky insurance agents can now offer their customers a product that combines accident forgiveness and discounts with rating tiers.Illinois-based Encompass Insurance’s new Encompass Edge, with its advanced rating...
Dec 6 2007 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Investigators and Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputies charged three Jefferson Parish men with aggravated burglary, aggravated false imprisonment, impersonating a police...