All the headlines from our Independent Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 14 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents of San Antonio (IIASA) has honored Gary Whitaker with the Ben R. Binford Award for outstanding service.Whitaker is vice president of Whitaker Insurance Associates. During his 30 years of...
Apr 12 2016 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) announced that E. Stuart Powell Jr., MA, CPCU, CIC, CLU, ChFC, ARM, AMIM, AAI, ARe, CRIS will retire on July 31, 2016 from his current position as vice president...
Mar 21 2016 // As more small business owners become comfortable buying everything including insurance online, exclusive agent carriers will gain an advantage over independent agency carriers in the highly-fragmented and increasingly...
Mar 3 2016 // As more small business owners become comfortable buying everything including insurance online, exclusive agent carriers will gain an advantage over independent agency carriers in the highly-fragmented and increasingly...
Feb 23 2016 // The insurance industry had a lot to say about what Google did wrong a day after the search engine giant said it would be pulling the plug on its year-long Google Compare experiment selling auto insurance online.Many...
Feb 22 2016 // Merger and acquisition activity for 2015 set a new record with 456 deals, sailing past the previous high-water mark of 325 deals set in 2012, according to recent data. The fourth quarter closed with 104 announced...
Feb 8 2016 // Much has been discussed and considerable investments have been made specific to branding within the independent insurance agency market over the past five to 10 years. Intense pressure to “brand” exists because...
Feb 8 2016 // For decades, the competitors of independent insurance agents have been frustrated.It seems that every so often our industry is treated to a parade of consulting firms predicting the impending demise of the independent...
Jan 25 2016 // It is time to put on the thinking cap and roll up the sleeves to determine what needs to be done to put the firm in a great position for growth and profit in 2016.Those that like to be proactive by being strategic and...
Jan 11 2016 // Welcome to Insurance Journal‘s 2016 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Jan 11 2016 // The Big “I” is very pleased that 2015 yielded a number of legislative successes.Early in 2015, the association scored a tremendous double victory when Congress acted on both the National Association of...
Dec 29 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big “I”) has named James Hanley as the new director of its agency errors and omissions insurance program. Hanley will lead the insurance and risk...
Dec 7 2015 // Eight years after the introduction of managed competition for private passenger auto insurance and the influx of direct writers and direct response companies into Massachusetts, a new study commissioned by the...
Dec 3 2015 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Even with advancements in the direct-to-consumer channel, independent agents (IAs) continue to be a dominate distribution channel for property & casualty carriers....
Nov 17 2015 // Eight years after the introduction of managed competition for private passenger auto insurance and the influx of direct writers and direct response companies into Massachusetts to compete with independent agencies, a new...
Nov 16 2015 // Independent insurance agents and brokers posted median organic growth of 4.4 percent for the third quarter of 2015, compared with 6 percent in the third quarter of 2014, as measured by the Reagan Consulting Organic Growth...
Nov 9 2015 // Most “Best Practices” independent insurance agencies have been able to either grow or maintain the value of their businesses while focusing on staff development and technology, according to the latest report by...
Nov 6 2015 // Independent insurance agents and brokers posted median organic growth of 4.4 percent for the third quarter of 2015, compared with 6.0 percent in the third quarter of 2014, as measured by the Reagan Consulting Organic...
Nov 4 2015 // Over the past few years, dire predictions about the independent agent’s future have gotten a lot of attention. With consumers increasingly adopting the latest technology-driven shopping and buying behaviors, some...
Oct 22 2015 // Jennifer Webb has joined the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) Capitol Hill team as federal government affairs counsel.Webb joins the association’s bipartisan...