All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 15 2007 // GAINSCO Auto Insurance, which specializes in minimum-limits personal auto policies, announced it has introduced a new monthly auto policy for Texas customers. The new product, which provides a single month of personal auto...
Nov 15 2007 // A notice published in the Federal Register seeking comments for a broad Treasury Department review of financial regulation is biased in favor of federal regulation of insurance and foreign business entities, according to...
Nov 15 2007 // Manhasset, N.Y.-based NIF Group, Inc., a program administrator and specialty brokerage firm, recently announced that NOVA Casualty will offer a new market for social service agencies. NIF Group will underwrite the program...
Nov 14 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group today announced that one of its companies – Keene, N.H.-based Peerless Insurance – intends to return to the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market next year after a 20-year...
Nov 13 2007 // Lloyd’s has released a research report on China’s rapidly developing insurance market, which it said “explores the key trends in the Chinese non-life insurance market and the opportunities they present...
Nov 13 2007 // The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA) recently announced that it had signed an agreement to join the SeaPass Multi-Carrier Hub™ platform, as a commercial lines tool for independent agents for real-time...
Nov 13 2007 // Carpenter Moore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., announced the addition of two broker-executives to its errors and omission liability practice. Ted Doolittle has been named managing director,...
Nov 12 2007 // Mississippi Insurance agent Ken Nowlin is objecting to a pre-sentence report that suggests he may have to pay restitution to Lafayette County in a kickback scheme involving the county’s health care coverage.In July,...
Nov 12 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that the Texas Sign Association (TSA) purchasing group, TSA Comp Group Inc., is now open group. Qualifying on-premise sign product manufacturers, sign supply distributors and...
Nov 12 2007 // Louisiana’s taxpayer-backed property insurance company will seek a new broker for reinsurance coverage because its current broker failed to disclose that it hired a daughter of the insurer’s embattled former...
Nov 12 2007 // The Marsh & McLennan Companies, or MMC, has seen its once dominant position atop the brokerage world assailed by changing conditions, Eliot Spitzer, more competition and its own internal restructuring.Although MMC...
Nov 12 2007 // Cary, N.C.-based Agency Ideas, the publisher of Agency Ideas Newsletter, an independent subscription-only sales and marketing newsletter for property/casualty agents, has introduced ProducerIdeas.com, a membership-only Web...
Nov 9 2007 // A Eugene, Ore.-based insurance agent who is the focal suspect in an ongoing investigation by Oregon State Police and the Insurance Division, part of the Department of Consumer & Business Services, was arrested by the...
Nov 9 2007 // A day after a similar bill was introduced in the Senate, the House of Representatives passed federal legislation to help hurricane and disaster-prone states make property insurance more readily available to residents...
Nov 8 2007 // Chicago-based Hub International Ltd.’s California subsidiary has acquired FLF Inc. d/b/a Diversified Risk Insurance Brokers Inc. (DRIB), a northern California-based insurance brokerage. DRIB’s operation in...
Nov 8 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. selected Kathleen Scaglione as the Hudson Valley Regional Awareness Program’s Executive of the Year. The award was presented at the fifth-annual Hudson Valley...
Nov 8 2007 // The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) has selected the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents’ “PIA Branding Program” as a recipient of two awards in its...
Nov 8 2007 // Progressive Insurance is changing the indoor and outdoor signs at thousands of its agencies across the country to highlight its affiliation with the businsses.Earlier this year, Progressive announced that it was returning...
Nov 7 2007 // Professional Insurance Agents of Florida elected Phil Zelman president of the board effective Oct. 1. A member of PIA since 1999, Zelman is vice president and co-owner of NCF Insurance Associates in Coral Gables, Fla., and...
Nov 7 2007 // November 7, 2007 – QualCorp, Inc. signed agreements to license their new QueryPlus Reporting Tool to Lassiter-Ware Insurance. Nancy Burton sees the tremendous benefit and advantage of having the QueryPlus Reporting...