All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2022 // Federal cybersecurity officials are again warning of Russian cyber attacks and urging critical infrastructure networks in particular to be on alert.The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau...
Jan 10 2022 // Movo Investment Group Ltd., the parent company of the Movo Partnership network (Movo), announced it has completed the acquisition of three commercial brokers in the UK.Chiltern Insurance Group, based in Reading; FLS...
Jan 7 2022 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services, a national agency, has acquired six Florida agencies, greatly expanding Patriot’s footprint in the Southeast.Pennsylvania-headquartered Patriot said in a news release that it had...
Jan 6 2022 // Insurance Journal is now accepting nominations for its annual “Agents of the Year” report.Are you a top property/casualty independent insurance agent? Do you know someone who is? Then submit information to be...
Jan 6 2022 // Aston Lark, the London-based insurance broker that is soon to become part of Howden, announced Phoenix Healthcare (UK) as the latest addition to the group.Established in 1996 in Oadby, Leicester, Phoenix Healthcare is a...
Jan 5 2022 // Specialty broker Amwins announced the appointments of Sam Baig and Jeff McNatt as presidents of Amwins Brokerage, effective immediately.James Drinkwater, who has served as president of the brokerage division since 2008 and...
Jan 5 2022 // Canadian insurance broker Western Financial Group has acquired Wiesner Insurance Inc., a high-end full-service insurance brokerage located in southern Ontario.Originally founded in 1991 by Jason Wiesner, Wiesner Insurance...
Jan 4 2022 // Aston Lark, the London-based insurance broker that is soon to become part of Howden, announced the acquisition of UK broker Mainstay Insurance.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2013 by...
Dec 27 2021 // UK broker Ardonagh Group announced it has agreed to acquire Portuguese broker MDS Group.Headquartered in Porto, MDS has offices in Brazil, where it is the country’s largest independent broker, as well as Angola,...
Dec 27 2021 // King Insurance, a Florida-based insurance broker and employee benefits firm, has acquired three agencies in Florida and Georgia, bringing to 11 the number of acquisitions for the company this year. King, headquartered in...
Dec 22 2021 // Butler & Messier Insurance recently acquired two Cranston, Rhode Island, insurance agencies to add to its expanding statewide footprint.Effective October 1, 2021, Butler & Messier successfully closed on the final...
Dec 21 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by The Hanover Insurance Group.The U.S. program market has doubled in size over the past decade, with market research indicating even more accelerated growth in the future. This,...
Dec 20 2021 // A commercial insurance brokerage technology company that is up and running in the UK is targeting the U.S. after raising more than $7.9 million in a Series A funding round.Broker Insights, which is based in Scotland,...
Dec 20 2021 // The wholesale insurance market continues to grow premiums while providing value to retail agents and important options to their customers, according to a report commissioned by the Wholesale and Specialty Insurance...
Dec 20 2021 // Technology will continue to influence changes in insurance markets in 2022, especially among agents and digital carriers.So say the people at Agentero, a digital platform and network that uses data and analytics to enable...
Dec 20 2021 // A majority of insurance agents have a very positive outlook for 2022. About 70% expect their business growth to be on track in the new year, while nearly 20% expect that growth to be “off the charts.”According...
Dec 17 2021 // An Iowa insurance agent has overwhelmingly won a state Senate seat in a northwest Iowa special election.Spirit Lake insurance agent Dave Rowley, a Republican, won the special election Tuesday to fill the Senate District 1...
Dec 17 2021 // This is part of a series of articles from Insurance Journal’s annual Insuring Cannabis Summit on Oct. 14. You can find more articles from the summit at the bottom of this one.Having a niche makes one unique, an...
Dec 17 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Investing in technology can be daunting. The thought of setting up an entirely new system, or migrating from an old one, is enough to stop progress in its tracks for...
Dec 16 2021 // Juan Carlos Martinez, 56, of Yorba Linda, California, has been charged with 12 counts of grand theft, 34 felony counts of forgery, 34 counts of insurance fraud, and one count of money laundering, after allegedly collecting...