All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 11 2018 // The employees and agent/broker clients of Farmington Hills, Michigan-based H.W. Kaufman Group may be pleased but not surprised to learn that the specialty insurance organization has been recognized as one of the best in...
Dec 10 2018 // Three firms are increasing their investments in Acrisure LLC, the Caledonia, Michigan-based insurance brokerage announced.Acrisure said a group of investors led by funds managed by Blackstone’s GSO Capital Partners...
Dec 10 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based insurance broker, has acquired Boston Marks Insurance NZ in New Zealand, BMG Aviation in Australia and the book of business of Boston Marks Insurance Brokers...
Dec 7 2018 // Global broking network Brokerslink announced the departure of Jacqueline Legrand as chief executive officer.After six years based in Europe, Legrand has resigned from her position to return to New York to take on a new...
Dec 7 2018 // Global insurance broker Gallagher has acquired commercial insurance broker Pavey Group Holdings in the southwest UK. With offices in Torquay, Exeter and Holsworthy in Devon, and Highbridge in Somerset, Pavey Group was...
Dec 5 2018 // Anthony (Tony) Curti, a partner with Acrisure LLC in Caledonia, Michigan, and a member of the Michigan Association of Professional Insurance Agents (MIPIA), has been elected to the executive committee of the National...
Dec 5 2018 // JenCap Holdings LLC (JCH), a specialty insurance business, will acquire privately-held Risk Innovations LLC, a specialty wholesale insurance broker based in Atlanta, Georgia. Financial terms were not disclosed.Risk...
Dec 5 2018 // Earlier this year, the chief financial officer of global insurance giant Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. explained to analysts how the company had turned a little-known U.S. energy subsidy into a profit machine, worth...
Dec 5 2018 // The page has finally turned on the tumultuous 2018 hurricane season, but for the agents who live and work in the Florida Panhandle the story isn’t over – personally or professionally.“We all still feel like...
Dec 4 2018 // CoverWallet, a technology company that has been on a mission to “reinvent insurance for small business” customers, is now offering its platform for insurance agencies, the company revealed today.With 16...
Dec 3 2018 // There’s “still a really strong need” for specialty insurance to cover cannabis businesses as well as medical professionals prescribing cannabis, according to an attorney who specializes in the sector.Ian...
Dec 3 2018 // Last year’s California wildfires destroyed thousands of homes and cost billions of dollars, but they also created numerous new laws and regulations in their wake as Legislators and insurance regulators looked for...
Dec 3 2018 // I have done a tremendous amount of errors and omissions (E&O) work over the years, including serving as approved and accredited auditor for two major E&O carriers, a certified E&O instructor, an author of an...
Dec 3 2018 // As more and more consumers click for services and borrow rather than buy, the sharing economy is benefitting.According to Harvard Business Review, the sharing or on-demand economy is attracting more than 22.4 million...
Dec 3 2018 // Cryptocurrency and blockchain entities may seem like a hot market for insurance agents looking to specialize, but right now there are not many insurers willing to write it.Before jumping in, agents would be wise to...
Dec 3 2018 // Officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and the Insurance Department have commended U.S. Congress for including a patient brokering provision in the recently passed Substance Use Disorder...
Nov 29 2018 // A new insurtech wants to provide pay-as-you-go workers’ compensation to as many small businesses in California as possible, and it hopes to use the momentum it’s built following a quiet launch in the East...
Nov 29 2018 // Remember the scene in the 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally? During lunch with Harry at a deli, Sally very publicly fakes a wild orgasm. A nearby patron, when asked what she’d like to order, signals in Sally’s...
Nov 28 2018 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has hired Landen VanSyckle as sales and agency relations specialist in its Madison, Wisconsin, office.VanSyckle will be the primary resource and liaison for...
Nov 28 2018 // With the clock ticking on the National Flood Insurance Program’s authorization that is set to run out this Friday, Nov. 30, Congress is expected to renew the program short-term by taking one of several routes:...