All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 22 2003 // Bud Stumbaugh, CEO of AssuranceAmerica Corp. announced that its subsidiary, AssuranceAmerica Insurance Company, a P/C insurer that focuses on the nonstandard private passenger automobile market, will commence writing...
Dec 1 2003 // For the past several years, the reinsurance market has recorded some of the worst results ever. A decline in capacity and exposures to costly losses industry-wide have produced less than desirable profitability results...
Dec 1 2003 // Over the past several years, launching new insurance programs—both from the perspective of potential producers (MGAs, retail agent groups, and wholesalers) and the specialty insurance carriers—has been difficult. The...
Dec 1 2003 // For the past several years, the reinsurance market has recorded some of the worst results ever. A decline in capacity and exposures to costly losses industry-wide have produced less than desirable profitability results...
Dec 1 2003 // Over the past several years, launching new insurance programs—both from the perspective of potential producers, such as MGAs, retail agent groups and wholesalers, and the specialty insurance carriers—has been...
Nov 28 2003 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) of QBE Re Group – U.S. (QBE) (New York, N.Y.). This rating applies to QBE Reinsurance Corporation (Philadelphia) and its subsidiaries, QBE...
Nov 5 2003 // CATEX announced that MGU Savannah Reinsurance Underwriting Management, LLC, a member of the Georgia-based Palmer & Cay group of companies, has agreed to license a CATEX web-based Reinsurance Transaction System based...
Nov 3 2003 // Texas-based Underwriters MGA (UMGA), a Texas- based corporation with offices in Hidalgo County, announced it has filed a court petition to reclaim millions of dollars in revenues the company said it lost as a result of...
Nov 3 2003 // The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will hold its mid-year meeting at the Phoenician Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Nov. 13-15. At the heart of this year’s meeting will be several...
Nov 3 2003 // Since 1946, Dallas-based Old American County Mutual Fire Insurance Co. has stayed true to a simple business philosophy: Provide reasonably priced insurance on a reasonable payment schedule for difficult risks. Much has...
Sep 29 2003 // The North Dakota Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin increasing the department’s guideline threshold for managing general agents (MGAs) from $5,000 to $10,000. The new threshold was adopted in accordance...
Sep 10 2003 // Francis Mastowski, president of Jimcor Agencies and its affiliates, announced the signing of an agreement with Custom Insurance Solutions (CIS) to install their AIM Management System. Jimcor is a multi-state MGA and...
Aug 22 2003 // WebApp Technologies (www.webapp.net), a division of Additional Benefits Company (ABC), has released its newest product, WebApp (Home). WebApp (Home) is a web-based, point-of sale system that bridges directly from a...
Jul 28 2003 // Lakeland, Fla.-based Summit announced the launch of BusinessFirst Insurance Co. BusinessFirst is a Florida-domiciled stock insurance company which will specialize in workers’ compensation insurance for retail,...
Jun 9 2003 // This is the first of an ongoing series on employee benefits. Insurance Journal will increase this series as we attract more advertising from employee benefits suppliers. What information would you like to see regarding...
May 20 2003 // Insurity Inc., a ChoicePoint® company, headquartered in Hartford, Conn., announced that the American Association of Managing General Agents’ (AAMGA) board of directors has voted to ratify Insurity as a full-fledged...
May 19 2003 // Ah, the Internet. Where would we be without it? Web sites and e-mail are pretty much essential ingredients for a successful business these days, especially for sales-oriented organizations. There are a myriad of ways...
May 5 2003 // Outgoing AAMGA president Rob Giles sat down with Insurance Journal recently to discuss the association, managing general agents and his term as president, among other things. Giles, president of Wisconsin-based Midwest...
May 5 2003 // Business transpires in the Information Age. Although these times offer the most networked, data enriched progression ever in history, many smaller to midsize insurance companies are still using mainframe processing to...
May 5 2003 // Outgoing AAMGA president Rob Giles sat down with Insurance Journal recently to discuss the association, managing general agents and his term as president, among other things. Giles, president of Wisconsin-based Midwest...