All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 29 2020 // Monrovia, CA, July 29, 2020 – Plum Insurance Services has the Right Program for Wholesale Insurance Brokers.While COVID-19 continues to spread like wildfire, businesses are being forced to either extend their...
Jul 28 2020 // A Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty broker believes that now is the best time to start offering pandemic insurance.Elite Risk Insurance, which specializes in bespoke risk, is offering Pandemic Outbreak with COVID-19...
Jul 28 2020 // Encova Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, has launched a new suite of personal lines products that will be delivered digitally to agents in Indiana.With Encova’s new personal lines product offering, agents and...
Jul 28 2020 // The N. Pingree Insurance Agency and its Georgetown and Haverhill, Mass., offices have joined the Duffy Family of Insurance Agencies.N. Pingree Insurance Agency was established in 1938 by H. Nelson Pingree. Brothers Robert...
Jul 24 2020 // U.S. insurers and brokers are starting to craft professional liability coverage for police officers, spurred on by signs that policymakers in some cities and states want to use a financial stick to curb police...
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...