All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 21 2021 // The Villages Insurance Partners of Florida has added Alexis Ball-Sheats to its team of Personal Lines Risk Consultants. Ball-Sheats will be one of three licensed risk consultants at the agency’s Mulberry Grove...
Jan 21 2021 // A former Kansas insurance agent from Johnson County has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud charges and agreed to repay nearly $86,000 in restitution, the state’s attorney general’s office reported.Kansas...
Jan 21 2021 // Three Maryland independent insurance agencies contracted with Erie Insurance have filed complaints with the Maryland Insurance Administration alleging Erie engaged in discriminatory practices against low-income and...
Jan 15 2021 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Commercial Insurance Brokers Inc., based in El Paso, Texas.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Commercial Insurance Brokers is a locally...
Jan 15 2021 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA), acquired Bush Insurance Agents & Brokers of Cambridge Springs, Penn., on December 31, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 1918, Bush Insurance is a...
Jan 14 2021 // NFP, a New York-based insurance broker and consultant, announced the acquisition of EdgeHill Insurance Brokers Ltd., in a transaction that closed on Dec. 16, 2020.Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed....
Jan 14 2021 // Insurance technology firm Applied Systems has agreed to acquire EZLynx, an agency management system vendor and pioneer in real-time comparative rating .Applied said the acquisition is complementary and will expand its...
Jan 14 2021 // Global broking business, Brokerslink, starts 2021 with the continued the expansion of its global network and the addition of independent broker JDB in North Macedonia.Trading since 2009, JDB is a growing broker with a...
Jan 13 2021 // Appalachian Underwriters Inc. (AUI) has added Dustin Hickman to its brokerage department as a casualty broker in Dallas.Hickman joins the AUI organization as part of the Energy Practice Group, specializing in heavy...
Jan 12 2021 // Insurance broker Aon has ended its business relationship with the Trump Organization, Insurance Journal has learned.The Trump Organization is the hotel, luxury residence and golf course business of the Trump family that is...
Jan 12 2021 // Pathpoint, a digital excess and surplus lines insurance broker, said it is offering a new capability to independent retail agents: access to multiple cyber insurance quotes through a single online application containing...
Jan 12 2021 // In its recently published report to the legislature, the windstorm insurer of last resort for properties along the Texas coast has proposed several operational changes, including one that would allow it to develop...
Jan 12 2021 // Licensed insurance agents Robert Farmer, 65, of Camarillo, Calif., and Marion Urcan, 67, of Agoura Hills, Calif., were arraigned this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court on multiple counts of grand theft after...
Jan 12 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of specialist UK insurance broker The Bollington Wilson Group.The transaction will close...
Jan 11 2021 // New Dawn Risk, the international specialist insurance intermediary, announced the launch of a new division focused on the UK market. It will provide liability and specialty solutions direct to insurance buyers, as well as...
Jan 11 2021 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s Agents of the Year report. This report features 25 agents who define what it means to be a successful independent agent today. These agents are more than top sellers. While they have...
Jan 7 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...
Jan 7 2021 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, a full-service, independent insurance brokerage firm, has merged with Porter & Curtis LLC, a consultative commercial property/casualty insurance broker, effective December 31, 2020.Porter...
Jan 6 2021 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Wisconsin (PIAW) has hired Natalie White as the association’s new communications director.White joins PIAW after several years of working in the Wisconsin Legislature. In addition...
Jan 5 2021 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), a London-based specialist insurance broker, announced it has acquired KBIS British Equestrian Insurance, a well-established broker within the equestrian market.Financial details of the...