All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2021 // JBA Risk Management Ltd. announced its collaboration with Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Services (RSIS), an African-based reinsurance broker that will use the JBA global flood modeling capability to provide flood risk...
Sep 22 2021 // Acrisure, the global insurance broker and fintech services provider, announced it has entered the real estate services business through its acquisition of Tempo Title, one of the largest private title insurance and...
Sep 21 2021 // Aston Lark, the Goldman Sachs-based insurance broker, announced two acquisitions in one day: Deanspoint Insurance Brokers, which trades in Ireland as Abbey Murphy Insurance, and The Health Insurance Company, based in...
Sep 21 2021 // U.S.-based specialty insurance corporation H.W. Kaufman Group announced its expansion into South America through the acquisition of Prospect Brokers Chile, based in Santiago, Chile.Financial details of the deal were not...
Sep 17 2021 // Alera Group acquired The Brokerage Commercial Insurance Services Inc. in in Newport Beach, Calif. The Brokerage Commercial Insurance Services employees will continue serving clients in their existing roles. Terms of the...
Sep 15 2021 // Is your agency a Best Place to Work? Then nominate your agency as a “Best Agency to Work For” award today.The deadline tomorrow, September 16. To nominate your agency, you must be a current employee of the...
Sep 14 2021 // Additional felony charges have been filed against Robert Andrew Lotter, 64, of Newport Beach, Calif., and Charles Albert Major, 72, of Irvine, who were arrested in November after allegedly defrauding their clients with...
Sep 9 2021 // Former insurance agent Steven Gordon, 67, of Camarillo, Calif. was arraigned on Thursday on 21 felony counts of grand theft, forgery, identity theft, and credit card fraud after allegedly stealing more than $1 million from...
Sep 6 2021 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Robert Stoddard, 66, of San Clemente, Calif., was arrested in August after a California Department of Insurance investigation found he allegedly stole $1.2 million from more than 20...
Sep 2 2021 // A broker hands an underwriter an application for a cannabis operation.No red flags so far, but then the underwriter takes a look for himself and finds a converted residence smack in the middle of a neighborhood, complete...
Sep 2 2021 // Global insurance broker Aon said it has increased its stake in Aon India Insurance Brokers Pvt Ltd. from 49 percent to 100 percent, acquiring the remaining share from Catamaran Ventures. Aon acquired a 49% stake from...
Sep 1 2021 // Ardonagh Advisory Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of The Ardonagh Group, announced it has acquired Usay Group Ltd., one of the largest consumer personal medical insurance and protection insurance brokers in the UK.Financial...
Aug 31 2021 // National specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of employee benefits specialty broker Benevestco, Inc., a Resource Sevens company. Terms of the deal were...
Aug 30 2021 // A Camarillo, California, insurance agent was arrested on Aug. 26 and charged with allegedly stealing more than $1 million from clients, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.Steven Franklin...
Aug 23 2021 // Tysers, the London-based insurance broker, has launched Tconnect – a cross-functional, cloud-based platform designed to consolidate processes and automate the end-to-end lifecycle of a policy.The launch of Tconnect...
Aug 23 2021 // Insurance and reinsurance veteran Chris Harrington joined the Los Angeles-based reinsurance intermediary G. J. Sullivan Co., Reinsurance, as vice president. Based in Chicago, Harrington will report to John Threlfall,...
Aug 20 2021 // Formerly licensed insurance agent Robert Stoddard, 66, of San Clemente, Calif., was arrested this week after a California Department of Insurance investigation found he allegedly stole $1.2 million from more than 20...
Aug 20 2021 // Digital auto insurer Root saw its loss ratio spike in the 2021 second quarter as higher costs for repairs, used vehicles and miles driven rose above pre-pandemic levels.But the Ohio-based insurer continues to report growth...
Aug 19 2021 // Insurance brokerage competitors Willis Towers Watson and Alliant Insurance Services are battling in court over what Willis alleges is a conspiracy by Alliant to steal its employees, trade secrets and clients.Willis...
Aug 17 2021 // Buoyed by the hard market and rebounding economy, Independent insurance agents and brokers grew overall by 7.1% in the second quarter, surpassing the 6.9% organic growth reported eight years ago in the second quarter of...