All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 5 2014 // Jonathan Bobbs and Aaron Hoefle have joined independent insurance wholesaler, All Risks Ltd., in Dallas. Bobbs, a brokerage underwriter at All Risks, has expertise in property business. Bobbs previously was a national...
Feb 3 2014 // Grandville, Mich.-based Grand General Agency, a Great Lakes regional wholesaler, has welcomed Jamie Fisher to its team. Fisher will be serving the independent agents of Wisconsin and Minnesota as Grand General’s...
Jan 30 2014 // Lyle Ashley, decorated Navy veteran, insurance agency founder, and well-known professional in Texas insurance circles, passed away Jan. 24, 2014.Ashley, 69, received The Vietnam Service Medal with two bronze stars for his...
Jan 23 2014 // Castel Underwriting Agencies Limited, a member of the Barbican Insurance Group, announced that Altitude Risk Partners has become the first underwriting cell to utilize its “club-style” MGA platform to create a...
Jan 14 2014 // Orlando, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2014) – Insurance Programs of America, a nationwide MGA and wholesale brokerage firm, announced a new addition to their hotel underwriting division. Lynn Vogel will be joining IPOA as an...
Jan 13 2014 // Huntington, West Virginia-based managing general agent Bloss & Dillard Inc. announced it has acquired and now operates Agents Insurance Markets Inc., a managing general agent in Richmond, Virginia. The new acquisition...
Jan 8 2014 // The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) announced from its London headquarters that it has begun its board election process and has called for nominations from members.The results of the election will be...
Nov 7 2013 // Dovetail Insurance, a supplier of cloud-based insurance product delivery services, is expanding its distribution of NetBOP in seven states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin....
Oct 31 2013 // David Howden, the chief executive of the London-based Hyperion Insurance Group, founded the company in 1994, “as a business to take on wholesale products in the international market,” he explained in a...
Oct 28 2013 // UK-based Castel Underwriting announced the launch of a “new club style MGA formation platform that provides experienced and entrepreneurial underwriters with stable capacity and a fast-track route to creating their...
Oct 11 2013 // The London-based Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) announced the appointment of Peter Staddon as its first managing director, effective from the 1st of November 2013.“Staddon will drive the...
Sep 23 2013 // Everyone loves the wholesale insurance business these days, or so it seems.“We’ve seen the entrance of a lot of other people coming into the wholesale market – aggregators, brokers, agents, program managers...
Sep 23 2013 // Throughout our history, the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) has retained its mission and identity while adapting to changes in the insurance industry. We began in 1926 as the Association of Fire...
Sep 18 2013 // “A nearly 40 percent increase in the number of insurers, market participants and suppliers attending this year’s Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) capacity exchange, demonstrates the increasing...
Sep 4 2013 // Specialist Managing General Agency (MGA) Pioneer Underwriting Limited announced the appointment of David Carson to spearhead its new division ‘Pioneer Cat,’ incorporating property catastrophe reinsurance...
Aug 28 2013 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) has decided to expand its membership to include all wholesale insurance professionals, while keeping its original name.Membership will now be open not only to...
Aug 22 2013 // USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesaler and MGA, announced the expansion of Allied American Underwriters (AAU) operations with the addition of Nathan Jackson as a new associate producer/broker specializing in...
Aug 20 2013 // CED 1976 LLC, a N.J.-based managing general underwriter for the Jewelers unBLOCKed brand that focuses on providing coverage to the jewelry industry, announced that Ken Bessette has joined its management team as strategic...
Jul 1 2013 // The past two years have seen interesting developments unfold on both sides of the Atlantic with regard to managing general agents and their representation, albeit electing to move in slightly different directions.In May,...
Jun 20 2013 // Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, a global risk and reinsurance specialist and member of Marsh & McLennan Cos., has released the findings of its eighth annual Specialty Insurance Program Issuing Carrier Survey. The survey,...