All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 14 2011 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. on Monday announced the acquisition of Mutual Insurance Services Inc. in Federal Way, Wash.Mutual Insurance Services Inc., which was founded in 1985, is a managing general agent and wholesale...
Nov 14 2011 // Florida-based HomeWise Insurance Co. is now is full run-off mode as it attempts to pay all outstanding claims and other debts in order to avoid being taken over by Florida regulators.The Clearwater, Fla.-based home insurer...
Nov 8 2011 // Tustin, Calif.-based managing general agent Yates has opened a northern California office in Walnut Creek . Jon Uyeyama has joined the office, bringing with him 10 years of underwriting experience. Uyeyama will oversee the...
Oct 24 2011 // Barbara Carey has joined Tustin, Calif.-based managing general agent Yates as an underwriter and broker. Carey spent the last eight years as senior broker and vice president of another California wholesale brokerage. Carey...
Oct 20 2011 // Vicki Cota has been named underwriter/broker at Gumtree Wholesale Insurance Brokers Inc. in its Springfield, Mo., office. She previously served as professional liability underwriter for Bohrer-Croxdale & McAdoo...
Oct 17 2011 // What is an entrepreneur?The exact characteristics that comprise an individual with the ability to bring new ideas to the marketplace and foster their success may be difficult to define. But it’s not much of a stretch...
Oct 17 2011 // Two veterans in the London insurance marketplace have come together again to launch an underwriting agency with a focus on U.S.-based homebuilders.Paul Jansen and Kevin Hastings have launched Cove Programs Insurance...
Oct 7 2011 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents has named Michigan-based JM Wilson Corp. as recipient of its 2011 Managing General Agency of the Year Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in...
Oct 6 2011 // Two veterans in the London insurance marketplace have come together again to launch a new underwriting agency with a focus on U.S.-based homebuilders.Paul Jansen and Kevin Hastings have launched Cove Programs, a newly...
Oct 3 2011 // Thirty-three year-old Scotsman Paul Thomson was on the last leg of his “five-year plan” to get into the insurance business in the U.S. He went through Harvard Business School. He got the financial backing of...
Oct 3 2011 // Two developments in the marine market have combined to create a tantalizing opportunity for wholesale brokers and managing general agents (MGAs) to serve the marine marketplace. While marine revenues remain fairly flat,...
Sep 9 2011 // The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA), a non-profit making organization founded to represent UK Managing General Agents, was officially launched on the 1st of September with an initial 40 Full Members...
Aug 11 2011 // Insurance distribution technology vendor Vertafore has appointed Mark Sonders as senior vice president of sales and client services. Reporting directly to the CEO, Sonders will have responsibility for sales, marketing and...
Aug 8 2011 // Two veteran insurance industry executives – Pat Kilkenny, former Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead General Insurance Services, Inc., and Bob Kimmel, former Guy Carpenter & Co., LLC, executive vice president – have...
Aug 1 2011 // Okemos, MI August 1, 2011 – NetRate Systems, Inc. (Okemos, MI), a leading supplier of ISO® Commercial Lines Rating software for the MGA and carrier marketplace, has announced the availability of a new, high-powered...
Jul 27 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jul 21 2011 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) introduces PER se (Power.Energy.Risk, ‘securing the environment’) – an MGU specializing in the energy and power sector, with a primary focus on renewable energy risks. PER se...
Jul 18 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jun 24 2011 // Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services of San Diego has named Kathy Bleasdale assistant vice president. She will work as a broker working remote in Northern California. Bleasdale has more than 20 years of insurance...
Jun 6 2011 // The simmering compensation conflict between London’s broker community and the underwriters they work with erupted following a keynote speech given by the Catlin Group’s chief executive Stephen Catlin at a...