All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jul 14 2020 // Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based First MainStreet Insurance (FMSI), a TrueNorth affiliate, has added three new firms to its family of insurance agencies — two in Iowa and one in Tennessee.FMSI acquired Sisson and Associates of...
Jul 13 2020 // Insurity Inc., a provider of cloud-based core system solutions and data analytics for insurers, brokers, and MGAs, has completed the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Virtual MGA.The deal, which closely follows the June...
Jul 10 2020 // At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data...
Jul 10 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has partnered with The Browning Agency of Ponte Vedra, Fla.Established in 1989 by Jim Browning, The Browning Agency is a full-service brokerage and consulting firm specializing in high...
Jul 10 2020 // The coronavirus pandemic has made it even harder for senior-care centers in the United States to find or afford standard liability insurance, with rates soaring by as much as 300%, insurance brokers said.Residential care...
Jul 9 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Mark Bridges of INSURICA in Amarillo to serve as vice chair for 2020-2021.Bridges was elected to the post during IIAT’s annual business meeting on June 10,...
Jul 9 2020 // BrokerTech Ventures, an insurance broker-led platform and accelerator program based in Des Moines, Iowa, has added four super-regional and national insurance firms as partners: The Cincinnati Insurance Companies,...
Jul 9 2020 // Nexus Group, the UK-based managing general agent, is looking to the U.S. for growth opportunities, despite the raging COVID-19 crisis.“With the political landscape and Brexit, it was an obvious choice for us to focus...
Jul 9 2020 // Atlanta, GA, July 9, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Services is pleased to welcome Kristopher Parsons to the wholesale brokerage and binding firm. Parsons joins the organization as a senior vice president, senior broker...
Jul 9 2020 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC, a nationwide insurance agency, has added two Florida-based independent agencies, Arison Insurance Services, and Ference Insurance (FIA), to the Patriot platform.Arison and FIA each...
Jul 9 2020 // A U.S. lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow insurers to voluntarily pay certain COVID-related business interruption claims and get reimbursed by the federal government, but insurance groups have rejected the...
Jul 9 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 8 2020 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Russell Luttrell of Benton-Luttrell Insurance in Van Alstyne as the André P. Juneau ELITExan of the Year.Luttrell was presented with the award during IIAT’s...
Jul 8 2020 // U.S. Insurer Allstate Corp. said on Tuesday it will buy National General Holdings Corp. for about $4 billion in cash, scaling up its auto insurance business at a time when the coronavirus has crushed traffic on roads and...
Jul 8 2020 // The Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has launched a Delegated Authority Committee (DAC) to inform and guide the evolution of this important aspect of Lloyd’s underwriting, distribution and claims.Delegated...