All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Dec 15 2021 // Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has acquired a stake in Ardonagh Group in a transaction valuing the U.K. insurance broker at $7.5 billion.The sovereign fund joined as a new investor in Ardonagh alongside several other large...
Dec 14 2021 // SIB Corp., operating as StoneRidge Insurance Brokers (SIB), the Canadian provider of insurance and consulting services, has acquired John Stark & Co. (Stark), to expand its personal, commercial and life insurance...
Dec 10 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.Sabrina Alkire is a broker who it can...
Dec 9 2021 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has ordered a New Orleans insurance agent and her company to stop their insurance business after the agent allegedly failed to remit premiums she collected from clients.Vilia Ann Ragas...
Dec 9 2021 // A Snohomish, Washington, insurance agent was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in the theft of premium payments from clients.Vicki Boser, owner of InsuranceTek, Inc., pleaded guilty in...
Dec 8 2021 // Filhet-Allard Maritime, the France-based insurance broker for the commodities trading, shipping and industrial markets, has acquired a controlling stake in Latitude Brokers, a specialist marine broker based in Asia with...
Dec 8 2021 // Howden, the London-based international insurance broker, announced that further to its merger with Malene Insurance Brokers in February 2019, Malene will operate as Howden Takaful Brokers, a fully dedicated Takaful...