All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 5 2020 // The hotel industry was one of the first industries affected when COVID-19 forced the travel industry into standstill, and many predict it will also be one of the last industries to recover. Even as travel has ticked up...
Oct 5 2020 // The votes are in for the 2020 Best Independent Insurance Agencies to Work For. While 2020 has been an unusual year for agency employees – many of whom have worked remotely for months – the pressures that have...
Oct 2 2020 // London-based insurtech Zego has partnered with two of the UK’s biggest networks of independent brokers that sit within Bravo Group.Zego will benefit from access to a community of over 700 brokers, more than 60% of...
Oct 2 2020 // Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB) has promoted Casie Treen to vice president of Finance and Administration.Treen has been a member of the BIB team since 2011. She joined BIB as an intern while pursuing a degree in...
Oct 2 2020 // An insult-laden spat at a London pub that strained relations between U.S. and British law-enforcement agencies is at the center of a employment tribunal lawsuit against the UK Serious Fraud Office.Tom Martin, an...
Oct 2 2020 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) has promoted three in-house Marketing team members Marketing representatives in its Oak Ridge, Tenn. Headquarters. The three members will service agents in their specific...
Oct 1 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...
Oct 1 2020 // Distinguished Programs, a national insurance program manager, has hired Brando Guerrero as a regional sales executive in New York.In this role, Guerrero will oversee growth/broker partners in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley...
Oct 1 2020 // The Allstate Corp. said it will cut approximately 3,800 jobs in claims, sales, service and support functions as part of its continuing plan to grow its property/casualty market share. The layoffs will affect about eight...
Oct 1 2020 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of producers license to a Lake Charles, La., agent for alleged misappropriation of premium funds. Valerie M. Muse reportedly...
Sep 30 2020 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance Mark Afable has charged former insurance agent, Timothy S. Bratley, with a number of violations of insurance law all targeting elderly consumers.Bratley, also a...
Sep 30 2020 // Agents and brokers should be on alert that plaintiffs’ attorneys in COVID-19 related business interruption claims lawsuits may be eyeing them as more cases against insurance companies begin to fail and claimants...
Sep 29 2020 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. and its claims unit, Gallagher Bassett, reported that a ransomware incident that happened on Saturday, Sept. 26 limited some of its internal systems.In a filing with the...
Sep 29 2020 // Howden, the independent employee-owned insurance broker, announced it has reached an agreement to acquire St Giles Legal & Professional Risks, a London-based professional indemnity insurance broker specializing in the...
Sep 28 2020 // The Florida Peninsula Insurance family of companies, which includes Edison Insurance Co., has promoted Mariella Gonzalez to director of Agency Support.In addition to her current role as director of Community Involvement,...
Sep 25 2020 // A Lake Charles, Louisiana, insurance producer has been issued a cease and desist order and had her license suspended amid an investigation into misappropriation of insurance premiums and the issuing of false insurance...
Sep 25 2020 // Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB) has appointed Keith Driscoll as CEO.Driscoll has been a member of the BIB team since 2013, beginning as vice president of the Workers’ Compensation Division before being promoted...
Sep 24 2020 // Lockton Re’s Tim Gardner, global CEO, and Ross Howard, global chairman, have been through their share of hard markets. Like many in the reinsurance business, they agree no two hard markets are exactly the same.For...
Sep 24 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Sean Borchardt a partner in the Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Borchardt has more than 15 years of experience. He previously has held positions at Gallagher, Relations...
Sep 23 2020 // The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need for brokers to add value to the insurance transaction, according to Toby Esser, chairman of AFL Insurance Brokers, a London-based independent broker.Indeed, Esser said, the...