All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2020 // Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey (PIANJ) elected Steven C. Radespiel of Hillsdale, N.J., president at the association’s annual business meeting. Radespiel is president of Insurance Center of North Jersey...
Jun 10 2020 // Specialist engineering and technology insurer HSB, part of Munich Re, has expanded its e-trade offering by launching HSB Fast Track, its broker online trading platform, in Ireland.The HSB Fast Track e-trade platform is...
Jun 9 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced the acquisition of CA Insurance Brokers in Australia.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2002 by Andrew Howard, CA...
Jun 5 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers in Woodland Hills, Calif., has named Heather DePiero the associate director of business development. DePiero will be responsible for identifying and cultivating new risk advisor talent...
Jun 4 2020 // Dallas-based Ascend Insurance Brokerage, which specializes in the entertainment industry, has joined forces with Fort Worth-based Higginbotham.In business for 20 years, Ascend Insurance Brokerage specializes in commercial...
Jun 4 2020 // Scenes that played out over the past few days in several East region states are serving as a stark reminder for the insurance industry of civil unrest that took place in New York and other U.S. states more than 50 years...
Jun 3 2020 // Brokers have been slow to adopt social media and digital technologies as a whole, which is hampering their ability to keep the clients satisfied during the lockdown, said GlobalData in a report.The entire industry will...
Jun 3 2020 // From the threat of insurer ratings downgrades to mounting carrier losses because of excessive litigation to increasing insurance rates, Florida’s insurance market got off to a rocky start in 2020. Then came the...
Jun 3 2020 // QBE North America has appointed Thaddeus Woosley as senior vice president, Broker Management & Sales Operations. He is based in Chicago.Woosley most recently served as vice president, strategic advisor, Specialty &...
Jun 2 2020 // Reliance Partners (Reliance), a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Jamie Cannon to vice president of the 3PL division.Cannon will lead Reliance’s...
Jun 1 2020 // The UK broker SSL Endeavour has rebranded as Oneglobal Broking. The business is led by Chairman Jonathan Palmer-Brown and Chief Executive Officer Mike Reynolds.The new business will bring local expertise and knowledge...
Jun 1 2020 // The country and economy are reopening, albeit slowly and cautiously. However, hackers and other digital bad actors have been busy coming up with new schemes that agencies must confront. Not only that, agencies must now...
Jun 1 2020 // In the wake of government orders shutting down or seriously limiting the operations of businesses to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, many affected businesses have turned to their insurers for coverage. This has led to a...
Jun 1 2020 // As an agent you must stop building sales processes around what is easy for you and start doing what is best to close the business and win the client to your team.One of the areas we battle with agents on is emailing the...
May 29 2020 // The Worldwide Broker Network has appointed Price Forbes Executive Director Alex Gilmore as chairman.Gilmore previously served as WBN’s Treasurer. He takes over the voluntary position of chairman from Jim Watt of EPIC...
May 29 2020 // WSS, a member of XPT Group, a specialty insurance distribution company, has added Meghan Easley as senior broker/underwriter in its Plano, Texas, office.Easley brings 15 years of industry experience, most recently in...
May 28 2020 // Editor’s note: This is the first in 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...
May 28 2020 // The representatives of three children who attended a Polk County, Ore. day care are suing multiple people and state agencies over sexual abuse for $5.1 million.The children attended the now-closed Stinky Feet Childcare in...
May 27 2020 // Unlicensed insurance agent Ai Ling Lee, also known as Linda Lee, 60, of Hacienda Heights, Calif., was arrested on nine felony counts of grand theft after allegedly stealing roughly $500,000 in clients’ insurance...
May 27 2020 // A Georgia man faces charges after authorities say he lied to his employer that he had tested positive for COVID-19.Santwon Antonio Davis, 34, is charged with defrauding his employer, the U.S. attorney’s office in...