All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 7 2020 // PointeNorth Insurance Group, LLC (PNIG), a locally owned and operated independent insurance agency in the Southeast, has increased its footprint with the merger and acquisition of three insurance agencies: The Stastka...
Dec 7 2020 // A Buckeye, Ariz., woman who ran an insurance brokerage firm but kept premiums her clients intended to pay for their policies has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in state prison.The Arizona Department of Insurance announced...
Dec 3 2020 // 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...
Dec 3 2020 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued a reminder to insurance companies, agents, and marketers of discount healthcare programs that materially misrepresenting the terms and conditions of an insurance policy or...
Dec 3 2020 // BMS Group, the independent specialist re/insurance broker, announced its Spanish subsidiary, BMS Mediación Iberia Correduría de Seguros y Reaseguros, S.L.U. (BMS Iberia), has acquired Montymarq Asociados Consultores y...
Dec 3 2020 // The Travelers Companies has agreed to acquire InsuraMatch, a national digital independent insurance agency, from the Plymouth Rock Group of Companies.The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021 after...
Dec 3 2020 // BMS Group, the independent specialist re/insurance broker, announced the appointment of Aidan Pope as executive chairman of its Latin American and Caribbean business, effective on Jan. 1, 2021.Pope will focus on growing...
Dec 2 2020 // Ballantyne Brokers Ltd., an independent London broker, announced it has started business. Founded by veteran London market brokers, Ross Ballantyne and Richard Spragg, the leadership team also includes David Ledger, former...
Dec 2 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has announced that Steve Borkowski and Caparo Insurance of Conshohocken, Penn., have joined the firm, becoming Liberty’s first partnership in the northeast U.S. The Liberty...
Dec 1 2020 // AmWINS Group Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International Specialty Brokers Ltd. (ISBL), a Bermuda-based P&C wholesale...
Nov 30 2020 // A former Genesee County, Michigan, insurance agent has been sentenced to prison for embezzling more than $90,000 from her clients and providing them with phony home and automobile insurance certificates, according to the...
Nov 25 2020 // Texas is proposing changes to continuing education (CE) requirements for agents and adjusters, and is seeking comments on the proposals.Among the CE changes proposed by the Texas Department of Insurance are: An expanded...
Nov 25 2020 // Global broking business Brokerslink has launched a dedicated international insurance programme management platform to drive the continued growth and digitalization of its international portfolio across the...
Nov 25 2020 // Crest Insurance Group LLC of Scottsdale, Ariz., has added Taylor Bouve as a commercial broker. Bouve has more than six years of experience in insurance. He was previously an account executive at Sunbelt Insurance Holdings...
Nov 24 2020 // While Minnesota insurance regulators saw an uptick in the number of fraud case referrals during 2019, agent and broker fraud referrals were down significantly that year, the most recent for which insurance fraud statistics...
Nov 24 2020 // Insurance technology provider Zywave announced the acquisition of Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a leading provider of marketing, rating and management software and services to the insurance industry.Zywave said...
Nov 24 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Inc. in Woodland Hills, Calif., offered the perfect Hollywood ending for founder Bill Johnson.Johnson started the brokerage fresh out of college in 1987, then took a break to get into...
Nov 23 2020 // Howden, the international insurance broker, announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Safeonline, a London-based cyber and tech specialist broker and Lloyd’s coverholder.The acquisition underlines the...
Nov 23 2020 // Kemper Corp. has agreed to pay $370 million in cash for specialty auto insurer American Access Casualty Company and its related captive insurance agency, Newins Insurance Agency Holdings. Driving the deal: Growth potential...
Nov 23 2020 // Ki, the first fully digital and algorithmically driven Lloyd’s syndicate, announced the onboarding of its first trading partners to its proprietary digital platform, providing access to its algorithmic underwriting...