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Sep 9 2025 // A Connecticut insurance agent has no duty to inform clients that their home insurer intends not to renew their insurance policy, the state’s high court recently affirmed in a case where the homeowners had argued that...
Aug 19 2025 // For decades, Miles “Burt” Marshall was the man you went to see in a stretch of upstate New York if you had some money to invest but wanted to keep it local.Working from an office in the charming village of...
Aug 5 2025 // A high-profile southwest Florida insurance agent who pleaded “no contest” to absconding with thousands of dollars in premiums has been sentenced to just over a year in prison.Reid J. McDaniel, 33, of North Fort...
Aug 29 2025 // A Massachusetts couple was arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a scheme that defrauded at least 50 individuals or insurance providers of more than $700,000 through their insurance agency, BL Insurance...
Sep 10 2025 // In a wide-ranging scheme that prosecutors are calling “insurance farming,” a former manager for one of the larger agricultural operations in Florida is now awaiting a sentencing hearing in December.Christopher...
Jul 21 2025 // Independent agents could be turning away nearly half of their prospective clients.The years of independent agents chasing “standard and preferred” home and auto risks are quickly coming to an end. As the risk...
Nov 5 2025 // Amazon sued Perplexity AI on Tuesday over the startup’s “agentic” shopping feature, which uses automation to place orders for users, saying it covertly accessed Amazon customer accounts and disguised...
Oct 10 2025 // Former New Jersey insurance agent Jose Uribe will not go to prison for his role in the bribery scheme involving former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, the senator’s wife, and two other businessmen.U.S. District Judge...
Aug 4 2025 // In today’s competitive market, independent insurance agencies are under increasing pressure to grow. Organic growth is harder to achieve, client expectations are evolving, and technology is reshaping how agencies...
Aug 13 2025 // Insurtech Superagent AI issued a press release yesterday to announce its goal of starting the first fully autonomous AI insurance agent by the end of the year.“We’re not just reshaping insurance. We’re...
Dec 3 2025 // There has been much discussion in the insurance industry about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can take on mundane, laborious tasks and complete them in a fraction of the time it would take a human.But the...
Sep 22 2025 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and seven states accused Live Nation and its ticketing arm Ticketmaster of costing fans millions of dollars by tacitly allowing ticket brokers to scoop concert tickets and sell them to at...
Jul 30 2025 // In the fourth set of criminal charges filed against him since last September, a former Baltimore County insurance agent and financial advisor has been charged with obstruction of justice and fabricating physical evidence,...
Oct 15 2025 // A new property/casualty insurance industry survey report reveals some of the key challenges that independent agents are facing, including providing quotes within customers’ expected time frames—or finding insurance...
Feb 10 2025 // If there is a single bright spot to be found in the aftermath of the costliest wildfire in California’s history, it is that both the property/casualty insurance industry and the independent agents who serve as its...
Mar 10 2025 // This is obviously a warped paraphrase of the famous line from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” “Badges! I don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”Warped is the insurance world we live in, and...
Jul 10 2025 // Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in...
Jul 15 2025 // The best way to tell that the California homeowners insurance market has been a bear is to see where buyers facing higher rates and lack of options in traditional markets are going for alternatives. One choice is the...
Apr 21 2025 // What’s so great about being a young independent agent today?Freedom, quality of life, opportunities to grow, challenges and the ability to solve them, the people and relationships built, the compensation, and, of...
Aug 18 2025 // A September trial for a Tampa woman charged with posing as an insurance agent and keeping thousands of dollars in auto insurance premiums has been postponed until December.Katrenia Lynette Harris, 54, was indicted by a...