All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2007 // With the boom in the insurance sector, market for insurance products has started to grow. Americans witnessed the most devastating events in the recent past. The 9/11 terrorist attacks or hurricane Katrina are examples of...
May 16 2007 // USI Holdings Corp. today announced the acquisition of Miami, Fla.-based benefits broker, Steven E. Goldin Insurance, Inc. Goldin provides benefits products and services to mid-sized businesses throughout Southeast Florida....
May 16 2007 // Nationwide managing general agency Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., has completed the purchase of the renewal rights to the brokerage business of Creative Insurance Underwriters in Florida. “It was...
May 16 2007 // The newly elected chair of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York, Inc. believes the same standards that first established IIABNY 125 years ago are still evident today. Advancing business interests...
May 15 2007 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation issued a Notice and Order to Show Cause to Coventry First LLC alleging violations of the Florida Insurance Code and for “engaging in fraudulent or dishonest...
May 15 2007 // Dallas-based PWIB Texas announced that Holly Mendez has joined the firm as senior broker/underwriter. Mendez formerly was associated with other leading insurance wholesalers, having served in the industry in brokerage and...
May 15 2007 // The parent company of ACE INA Holdings Inc., a Pennsylvania insurance company, will pay a record $9 million to settle allegations of bid-rigging and market collusion, according to Acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner...
May 11 2007 // An Alexandria, La., insurance agent has been arrested and issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of his licenses for allegedly misappropriating premium money from policyholders and failing to remit premiums...
May 10 2007 // Cadence Insurance Services of Colorado Springs, Colo., has become a member of the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance, a network of independent insurance agencies. The company was the 2,200th Independent Strategic Member...
May 10 2007 // The answer is not as obvious as you may think. In the age of the internet, most insurance leads are internet generated. Yes internet insurance leads are generated from websites, but not all websites are equal. There are...
May 10 2007 // A former Bucks County, Pennsylvania insurance broker has been arrested by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office for allegedly defrauding four insurance premium companies and the state’s bureau of...
May 10 2007 // Twenty-nine year old Peter Webb served his country in the U.S. Marines for eight years. Since then, Sergeant Webb has spent four years serving small businesses as an account manager and producer for an Oklahoma City...
May 9 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire Inc. recently said it supports two insurance department proposals and offered further recommendations to clarify fiduciary and licensing rules affecting agents.The...
May 9 2007 // Parker W. Rush, president and CEO of Dallas-based regional insurer The Republic Group, is slated to speak at the May membership luncheon of the Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio.The luncheon will take place May...
May 8 2007 // The companies of American Modern Insurance Group, a national specialty insurance leader, are sponsoring a sweepstakes designed to demonstrate the ease of use of their on-line modernLINK suite of applications, most notably...
May 8 2007 // Melissa Champany of the Florida Association of Insurance Agents recently received the 2006 InsurPac Young Agent Award at a luncheon in Washington, D.C.Champany was recognized for her efforts in launching a 2006 educational...
May 8 2007 // A Columbus, Ga., insurance agent has been charged with three counts of insurance fraud for allegedly keeping premiums paid to her for property and taxicab liability coverage instead of forwarding the payments to an...
May 8 2007 // “The Big I” associations of Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, and Washingto are co-sponsoring Insurance Skills Center’s Agribusiness Conference in Denver on June 25-26, 2007. The Rocky...
May 8 2007 // The results of the 2005 market share study by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, Inc. (the Big “I), again show that the independent agency system remains strong with plenty of growth...
May 7 2007 // It will take the collective clout and leadership of agents everywhere to move more carriers and transactions to real time.Agents have the future of the agency system at their fingertips, literally. Many of those who have...