All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2007 // Former franchisees challenge Brooke agent dealingsBut fast-growing franchisor denies misleading any agents Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that...
Oct 8 2007 // PeopleThe Property Casualty Insurers Association of America has named Deputy Secretary of Commerce David A. Sampson to serve as the association’s president and chief executive officer. Sampson takes over the reins on...
Oct 8 2007 // Overland Park, Kan.-based insurance agency franchisor Brooke Corp. has been hit with a number of lawsuits that raise questions about its business dealings with agents who bought into its nationwide operation, which now...
Oct 8 2007 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance investigated complaints earlier this year against Brooke from former franchisees in that state and cleared the company of all wrongdoing except for a few minor licensing snafus. The...
Oct 8 2007 // California clarifies surplus lines rules for retail agentsCalifornia retail agent-brokers not transacting insurance on behalf of surplus line broker organizations are not required to follow a new law affecting surplus...
Oct 8 2007 // The wise program manager takes yet another step forward and commits their organization to multiple niches.As the property casualty market softens, insurance carriers will strive to figure out new ways to maintain recent...
Oct 8 2007 // Some of today’s most successful program managers have pulled the plug on association endorsements. They’re not anti-association but they have decided that these endorsements are not always worth the trouble or...
Oct 8 2007 // House-passed flood insurance bill provides optional windstorm coverageThe U.S. House of Representatives has passed a measure updating the nation’s flood insurance program that will give homeowners the option of...
Oct 8 2007 // The business owner policy (BOP) of today is not the BOP of yesterday, industry experts agree. When the first BOP coverage was introduced in the late 1970s, it was mostly utilized by direct writers whose niche in the...
Oct 5 2007 // Irvine, CA, Oct. 05, 2007 – Superior Access, the nation’s leading online insurance distributor, launched its most advanced web application to date: Superior Access 2.0. Crafted to provide independent insurance...
Oct 5 2007 // Federal terror-fighting agencies can’t identify all the American research laboratories that could become targets of attackers, congressional investigators have found.The Government Accountability Office asked a dozen...
Oct 5 2007 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired BIS Insurance Services Inc. located in Sacramento, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1979, BIS Insurance Services is an employee benefits insurance...
Oct 5 2007 // Pennsylvania-based Harleysville Life Insurance Co. says it sees great opportunity—and a natural market connection—for developing employee benefits programs through the commercial lines business generated by the...
Oct 5 2007 // Insurance Skills Center and the Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa will present a two-day conference focusing on farm and agribusiness insurance risks, Oct. 22-23, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa.The Midwest Agribusiness...
Oct 4 2007 // Robert E. Fulwider was inaugurated as the new chair of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with C. Brett Nilsson, and J. David Daniel assuming the offices of chair-elect...
Oct 3 2007 // The Michigan Association of Insurance Agents recently announced Roger Stoor of the Lud Stoor Agency in Crystal Falls, Mich. has been named president. . As president, Stoor will work with the Association Board of Directors...
Oct 3 2007 // In a move that it says underscores its commitment to achieve a leadership position in Switzerland, Willis AG, the Swiss branch of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, has acquired Burkart Risk Consulting &...
Oct 3 2007 // Dallas, Texas-based U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., the seventh largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, expanded its operations by opening a brokerage operation in Sydney, Australia.The...
Oct 2 2007 // The same federal judge who early in September dismissed all federal antitrust charges against Marsh & McLennan Companies and a group of other brokers and insurers has now thrown out all related federal charges of...
Oct 2 2007 // Chicago-based Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance, Inc. (SUA) recently announced that the company has entered into a new Partner Agent contract with First Light Program Managers, Inc. (“First Light”) to...