All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2021 // Roanoke Insurance Group is expanding to Canada to provide insurance and surety bonds to companies involved in logistics, transportation and shipping. The new entity, Roanoke Insurance Group Canada, Inc., (RIG CA), is an...
Mar 18 2021 // A Michigan former insurance agent charged with embezzling from an elderly client has been sentenced to 36 months’ probation – with six months under house arrest – and ordered to pay restitution, state officials...
Mar 18 2021 // Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips...
Mar 17 2021 // ATLANTA, Ga., March 17, 2021 — Breckenridge Insurance Services continues to grow its wholesale brokerage presence in the Southwest with the addition of broker Jodi Hughes, AINS, AU. Hughes has nearly seventeen years of...
Mar 17 2021 // Xenia Broking Group, the credit insurance and surety specialist, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Status Credit Insurance Brokers Ltd., a specialist trade credit broker, headquartered in East...
Mar 16 2021 // A former licensed insurance agent was arrested for the second time in Florida last month after allegedly selling insurance without a license.The Florida Department of Financial Services said Orestes Valentin Rodriguez is...
Mar 12 2021 // Some serious money has been sent the way of various insurance startups over the past week. Investors backed cutting-edge commercial lines and cyber insurance products as well as advances in texting communications, producer...
Mar 11 2021 // While carriers face growing financial losses in Florida’s distressed property insurance market, insurance agents are on the front lines trying to help their clients who are being hit with double-digit rate increases,...
Mar 10 2021 // Relation Insurance Services Inc. (Relation) has entered the Texas market with the acquisition of the assets of InSource Insurance Agency Inc. (InSource), in San Antonio, and Shepard Insurance Agency (Shepard),...
Mar 9 2021 // The Worldwide Broker Network (WBN), a global network of independent insurance and benefits brokers, has appointed Olga Collins as chief executive officer.Collins succeeds Francie Starnes, who will serve as CEO Emeritus...
Mar 8 2021 // Howden Broking announced that it has acquired independent superyacht insurance broker Sturge Taylor & Associates (STA Group).STA Group will become part of Howden and will operate under the new trading name Howden...
Mar 8 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut (PIACT) elected Shannon Rabbett, of Windsor, Connecticut, as president at the association’s annual business meeting, held virtually on March 4, 2021. She will serve as...
Mar 8 2021 // What if the COVID-19 pandemic had struck in 1980 instead of 2020? Without widespread internet connectivity, cloud software and video conferencing, the insurance industry may have been up a creek without a paddle (and...
Mar 5 2021 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), a London-based insurance broker, has agreed to acquire CLS Risk Solutions (CLS RS), subject to regulatory approval.Financial details of the acquisition — its fourth so far this year...
Mar 5 2021 // The largest wholesale insurance broker, Amwins Group, is getting even larger as it has agreed to acquire Worldwide Facilities, the fourth-largest wholesale insurance broker in the U.S.The addition of Worldwide broadens...
Mar 5 2021 // Fort Worth, Texas-based independent insurance and financial services firm, Higginbotham, has partnered with Mike Knotts, an insurance agency owner and broker in Bossier City, Louisiana, to establish its first...
Mar 4 2021 // A former Red Oak, Iowa, insurance agent is facing felony charges related to alleged insurance fraud.The Iowa Insurance Division said Dustin French has been charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False...
Mar 4 2021 // Costero Holdings, a privately held London-based brokerage, has acquired the independent broker Mar Risk Services Ltd. (MarRS), effective March 1, 2021.Headquartered in London, MarRS offers insurance advice and access to...
Mar 4 2021 // Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips...
Mar 3 2021 // The longtime mayor of the southern Illinois city of Columbia has resigned in the wake a federal indictment accusing him of public corruption, a city official announced.Last week, a federal grand jury indicted Mayor Kevin...