All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Nov 3 2025 // Tompkins Financial Corp. has closed on the sale of its wholly owned subsidiary, Tompkins Insurance Agencies, Inc. (TIA), to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. for approximately $223 million in cash. The transaction generates a...
Nov 3 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...
Nov 3 2025 // Anyone in the insurance brokerage world generally knows the three magic words that require an insurance producer license: the “sale,” “solicitation,” or “negotiation” of insurance. For...
Nov 3 2025 // Independent insurance agents face a crossroads. Traditional insurance products such as auto, home, renters, and even small commercial are becoming increasingly commoditized. Carriers streamline offerings to keep premiums...
Oct 31 2025 // In the rush to improve customer experience, many insurers have overlooked a critical group of stakeholders: the independent brokers and agents who sell their products every day.With this group now numbering over 1 million...
Oct 28 2025 // Thomas Evans, Jr. of Biglow & Company, Inc, (Assured Partners) in Fox Lake, Illinois, has been elected and formally installed as the President of Big I Illinois at the organization’s annual convention in Peoria...
Oct 28 2025 // Australia’s AUB Group said on Tuesday it had granted Swedish private equity EQT exclusive access to its books after receiving a takeover offer which values the insurance broking company at A$5.25 billion ($3.41...
Oct 24 2025 // MNK International Acquires New Broker in TurkeyMNK International, a London-based independent Lloyd’s broker, has acquired a new broker in Türkiye for an undisclosed amount. The business will focus on insurance and...
Oct 20 2025 // Lack of Identifying Revenue Source. Treating all income as commissions will not allow proper analysis and may potentially create false impressions of the actual revenue. Use accrual accounting to distinguish between...
Oct 20 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 affirmed in a case where the homeowners argued their long...
Oct 20 2025 // Global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher is suing two former employees who left to start their own New York brokerage firm for allegedly soliciting Gallagher clients and using confidential information in violation of...
Oct 17 2025 // Many U.S. homeowners are missing important insurance protections, offering opportunities for agents to educate insureds on increasingly essential coverages.A new survey commissioned by The Hanover Insurance Group found...
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...
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...
Oct 6 2025 // More than a year after he was charged, a Georgia businessman known as “Dr. Taxes” has been indicted for posing as an insurance agent and swiping hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation...
Oct 6 2025 // The votes are in for the 2025 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal.Employees in 2025 highlighted the importance of competitive salaries, employee benefits, training and education,...
Oct 6 2025 // To say the independent agent–one of the lynchpins of the insurance industry–is operating in challenging and sometimes unforgiving times would be an understatement.Market volatility has remained a defining force...
Oct 6 2025 // A Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) investigation led to prison time for a former insurance agent who overcharged almost $300,000 in insurance premiums.Carlyle Poindexter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud...
Oct 3 2025 // Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced the acquisition of Gott & Wynne Ltd., a property-casualty insurance broker based in Llandudno, North Wales, specializing in both personal and commercial...