All the headlines from our Independent Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 2 2010 // About This Report: The economy and soft insurance market continued to hammer some of the nation’s leading independent insurance agencies in 2009.Property/casualty premiums written fell for 37 percent of the...
Jul 29 2010 // Dennis Smith of Columbia, Mo., has been honored as the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents’ Insurance Person of the Year. The award was given at MAIA’s annual Leadership Conference on July 22.Smith...
Jul 28 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America Big “I” Markets program can now offer access to a new stand-alone fine arts and valuable articles policies. The new program offers tailored products and...
Jul 19 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
Jul 19 2010 // R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group LLC based in Chicago, has acquired Los Angeles-based Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC.Chartwell, founded in September 2004 by Ben Beazley,...
Jul 7 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
Jul 7 2010 // InVEST, the insurance industry’s career education program, has awarded $56,500 in scholarships to 58 college-bound students pursuing insurance-related degrees, including 10 students from New York.Patrick Moore, chair...
Jul 1 2010 // For independent insurance agents, upcoming healthcare reform could be an opportunity to gain a bigger share of the health insurance and benefits market, provided they can properly advise their customers about their...
Jun 23 2010 // Corpus Christi, Texas independent insurance agent Wallace C. (Wally) Goodman has won the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas’ Drex Foreman Award, and Landon Ogilvie, partner at Gans & Smith Agency in Longview,...
Jun 22 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected David Wood, vice president and partner at Bogan, Dunlap & Wood Insurance in Odessa, to serve as the association’s president for 2010-2011.Other newly...
Jun 11 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report.Top Overall Independent...
Jun 10 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Oregon (IIABO) is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Accredited Customer Service Representative of the Year award, which recognizes an employee for his or her...
Jun 7 2010 // Infinity Auto Insurance has announced the addition of Leads360 to its Infinity Perks Web site, where Infinity’s appointed independent agents will now have access to Leads360’s lead management software and...
Jun 7 2010 // The Hill County Insurance Agency, located in Hillsboro, Texas, has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers.Hill County...
Jun 7 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc. Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...
Jun 7 2010 // LaRocco lamented that only 48 percent of independent insurance agents have Web sites, and of those, only about 20 percent keep the sites updated.The insurance industry is not as quick to adapt to change as other...
Jun 3 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report.Top Overall Independent...
May 20 2010 // Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report.Top Overall Independent...
May 17 2010 // The insurance industry is not as quick to adapt to change as other industries,” but independent insurance agents need to acknowledge that having “a Web presence is non-negotiable,” said Michael LaRocco,...
May 14 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc.Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...