All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2004 // Custom Insurance Solutions (CIS)has entered into a marketing and product integration agreement with FinancePro (FP), a developer of web-based premium finance software.Under the terms of the contract, CIS will retain...
May 17 2004 // Just what are independent agents looking for when it comes to technology?That was the question posed to a number of industry experts who all seemed in agreement—in order to compete in today’s workplace environment,...
May 17 2004 // It was a weekend in early 2002 and Pierre, S.D.-based agent Michael Rounds was having trouble sleeping. He tossed and turned and started to feel sick to his stomach. All the bed-hopping was making it tough for...
May 17 2004 // Our “market” is still essentially no different than what it was a century ago. We are still in the business of protecting the assets of our insureds while generating a profit.For as long as I have been in the...
Apr 28 2004 // Red River Services recently announced the launch of its risk management, loss control and property inspection business in Houston and Dallas, Texas.The organization is up-and-running, ready to help insurance companies,...
Apr 19 2004 // Ooh! We’ve got a biggie for you this time, folks. One hundred and twenty pages, the bulk of that taken up by volume two of our 2004 program directory. Along with this expansive, inclusive directory comes a very...
Apr 5 2004 // Independent agents are up in arms over the federal government’s decision to expand a pilot program they say threatens to cut them out of the crop insurance loop.The Risk Management Agency (RMA), the U.S. Department...
Apr 5 2004 // Independent agents are up in arms over the federal government’s decision to expand a pilot program they say threatens to cut them out of the crop insurance loop.The Risk Management Agency (RMA), the U.S. Department...
Apr 5 2004 // Independent agents are up in arms over the federal government’s decision to expand a pilot program they say threatens to cut them out of the crop insurance loop.The Risk Management Agency (RMA), the U.S. Department...
Apr 5 2004 // In 2004, the California homeowners and dwelling marketplace continues to erode. In October 2003, catastrophic wildfires destroyed 790,000 acres of brush and forest land, and along the way destroyed 3640 homes, 1141...
Mar 18 2004 // nuServe, a San Francisco-based provider of technology-related risk management tools, announced the expansion of a new service called nsBusiness Network. The expanded nuServe software aims to provide managing general...
Mar 12 2004 // Custom Insurance Solutions (CIS) announced the availability of integration between Agency Information Manager and AMS-Rackley PolicyRater for all 50 states. The two-way integration seamlessly transfers policy, risk,...
Mar 2 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group, a large independent wholesale insurance broker, has acquired New Jersey-based Property Risk Services, LLC. (PRS), a property wholesale brokerage group.“The addition of PRS...
Feb 27 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group, the nation’s largest independent wholesale insurance broker, announces the formation of a new wholesale brokerage operation in San Francisco, California to be led by Roger...
Feb 23 2004 // Insurance Journal recently unveiled information regarding an ongoing investigation into Torrance, Calif.-based Manning Riddell Insurance Services Inc. (License #0827722). Manning Riddell allegedly issued more than 1,000...
Feb 23 2004 // Ah, the lives of the rich and famous. Well, the rich at least, the famous part carries a little too much baggage for my taste. Still, the very rich lead lives to which most of us would love to become accustomed. Multiple...
Feb 23 2004 // Managing general agents need retail insurance agents; retail agents need MGAs. That much is true. So, given this reciprocal professional dependence, why are working relationships between these two groups sometimes burdened...
Feb 13 2004 // Chicago-based private equity investment firm Frontenac Co. LLC announced that it has acquired a majority interest in WNC Insurance Services, based in South Pasadena, Calif. WNC, a managing general underwriter (MGU), is a...
Jan 20 2004 // QualCorp Inc., headquartered in Valencia, Calif., announced that they have just completed the integration of their policy administration/issuance system, FormsPlus Enterprise and Agency Systems MGA/Wholesale Accounting...
Jan 14 2004 // New York City-based commercial lines wholesaler BISYS has acquired St. Louis-based Uhlemeyer Services Inc., a managing general agency that specializes in workers’ compensation.BISYS said the acquisition complements...