All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2020 // Tysers, the independent, London-based wholesale insurance broker, announced that Clive Buesnel will become its next chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approval.Buesnel has spent much of his career in both...
Jul 23 2020 // A Boston-based national wholesale insurance broker is offering what it says is “among the first and most accessible” insurance policies for commercial risks arising from pandemics and epidemics.The policy,...
Jul 23 2020 // Scott H. Smith has announced his intention to retire from Chicago-based insurance broker, R-T Specialty LLC, at the end of the year. Smith joined R-T Specialty with the acquisition of his specialty brokerage company, S. H....
Jul 23 2020 // Middleton, Wisconsin-based American Risk Management Resources Network LLC’s brokerage division has appointed Kari Dybdahl Kohal as the organization’s next president.Kohal brings to the position a wealth of...
Jul 23 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...
Jul 23 2020 // A little more than half (51%) of independent insurance agencies and brokerages say they have some sort of digital strategy in place, with larger firms more likely than smaller to have one.That’s according to...
Jul 22 2020 // I was recently asked this question.What do you think about efforts to simplify policy language? The answer is never as simple as it seems at first.The simple answer is that I’m for making the insurance policy easier...
Jul 22 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Christian Patino to the company as a risk advisor in its Transportation Practice Group. Patino has experience in the transportation and trucking niche, formerly working with...
Jul 22 2020 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham and Borden Insurance, an independent insurance agency located in Corpus Christi, Texas, have joined forces.Led by President and CEO David Erwin Borden, Borden Insurance was previously...
Jul 22 2020 // A recent opinion by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving a case against the insurer of a Florida hotel could clarify an issue of sublimits and have a significant impact on how policies are written in the future,...
Jul 20 2020 // Aquiline Capital Partners, a global private investment firm specializing in financial services and technology, announced it has closed its investment in Quintes Holding, one of the largest independent insurance brokers in...
Jul 20 2020 // Piiq Risk Partners, the global aerospace re/insurance broker, announces that it has received regulatory approval to operate in France.Piiq’s French operation will act as a base for expanding its services across the...
Jul 20 2020 // Independent agencies, like every other business, are living in a data-driven world. The value of data — including how and when it’s used and for what purpose — continues to evolve. As the value of data to...
Jul 20 2020 // One of my favorite books and movies is The Milagro Beanfield War. It takes place in the ’70s in a small, poverty stricken, dirt street northern New Mexico village. It’s close to a third world village, and into...
Jul 17 2020 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S) has acquired Newport Insurance Agency Inc. (NIA).Located in Middletown, R.I., with 13 associates on staff, Newport Insurance is an independent agency serving...
Jul 16 2020 // AHT Insurance has acquired Mason & Mason Insurance.Mason’s offices in Whitman, Mass., located near Boston, and North Conway, N.H., will become AHT’s eighth and ninth locations nationally. Mason’s...
Jul 16 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for many businesses across the globe, including the insurance industry. But so far, the insurance broker merger and acquisition (M&A) market has remained active even as the...
Jul 15 2020 // There were 288 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions during the first half of 2020, down from 328 in 2019, according to a report from OPTIS Partners. It was the lowest six-month period total since...
Jul 15 2020 // Burlington, NC, July 15, 2020 – Built on the backbone of 20 years combined programming experience, 13 years of Surety Bonding knowledge, 30 years of Sales and Marketing expertise, and more than 15 years of UX / UI...
Jul 15 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has hired William Kramer to the firm’s Employee Benefits Division. Larry Kramer Kramer has been in the insurance industry for over 20 years working on both the retail and carrier...