All the headlines from our Independent Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 12 2019 // The votes have been tallied and the results are in for the 2019 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal.The winners have been chosen by employees. Employees of the Best Agencies to Work...
Dec 11 2019 // The votes have been tallied and the results are in for the 2019 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal.The winners have been chosen by employees. Employees of the Best Agencies to Work...
Dec 10 2019 // The Higginbotham Way: ‘Practice What You Preach’The story began in 1948 when Paul C. Higginbotham returned from military service to open a small personal lines focused insurance agency in Fort Worth’s...
Dec 10 2019 // The votes have been tallied and the results are in for the 2019 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For survey by Insurance Journal.The winners have been chosen by employees. Employees of the Best Agencies to Work...
Dec 4 2019 // Miami, FL, December 4, 2019 – The LAAIA, Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies, announced it selected Atlanta, Georgia, to launch its first chapter outside Florida. Maria Fisk, president of the...
Nov 25 2019 // After Bill Pieroni, the CEO of ACORD, delivered a presentation about ACORD’s latest study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” he sat down with Wells Media’s Andrew Simpson to talk...
Nov 14 2019 // Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois (IIA of IL) has elected Bill Wirth, of Wirth Agency in Waterloo, as president of the group for a term that runs until Sept. 30, 2020.As president, Wirth will serve as a member of...
Oct 11 2019 // Today is a great time to be an independent agent, but running an independent agency is not easy. Without an awareness of how the industry is evolving, and having access to ongoing training and education, you may not be...
Sep 12 2019 // Next Insurance has begun formally marketing a portal designed to help independent agents quickly quote and sell its policies.Next said the system, dubbed “Next for Agents,” had been in beta testing since April...
Sep 2 2019 // Today is a great time to be an independent agent, but running an independent agency is not easy. Without an awareness of how the industry is evolving, and having access to ongoing training and education, you may not be...
Aug 16 2019 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a membership alliance for independent insurance agencies, has announced that two Miami, Fla.-based independent insurance agencies have recently joined the Alliance.Gil &...
Aug 8 2019 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired property and casualty books of business from, and hired, insurance agents Matthew Lennon, Craig Love, Frank and Michael Namath.Each of the agents...
Aug 2 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO), the state’s largest insurance and property casualty agents’ association, has confirmed its 2019-2020 officers and board members.IIAO Officers for 2019-2020...
Jul 30 2019 // Big I New York has welcomed Jim Lombardo as the association’s AVP of Learning and Development.Lombardo will be responsible for expanding the association’s education and research offerings to meet the needs and...
Jul 22 2019 // Heather Eilers-Bowser recently joined the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America ( Big “I”) Capitol Hill team as federal government affairs counsel. Her role will include federal legislative and...
Jul 9 2019 // Giant insurer Nationwide is partnering with an insurtech in an effort to speed up its product underwriting for commercial lines property/casualty agents.The technology Nationwide is deploying was developed by Ohio-based...
Jul 3 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Wes Kurtz of Pathfinder/LL&D in Houston as its André P. Juneau ELITExan of the Year.This award is given annually to a young insurance professional in Texas...
Jul 1 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Frank Swingle Jr., founder and CEO of Swingle Collins & Associates in Dallas, the 2019 Drex Foreman Award winner at IIAT’s Insurcon in Grapevine on June...
Jun 28 2019 // Mark Ray of Borden Insurance Agency in Corpus Christi has been elected to serve as chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) for 2019-20.Additionally, Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas as was...
Jun 21 2019 // To say the agency technology space is robust is an understatement.Right now, the industry is seeing an “onslaught of technology available to enable agents and brokers to better manage, not only their business, but...