All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2001 // National Marketing Services Inc., a provider of marketing products and services since 1988, has announced the launch of www.Programbusiness.com, designed to bring retailers, wholesalers, MGAs and program managers together...
Feb 19 2001 // The signs were there in 2000—and now it can safely be said that prices in the commercial auto industry are definitely firming. But how long it will take the industry to truly return to profitability is still hard to...
Feb 12 2001 // NAPSLO Legislative Report: Surplus Lines Issues Covered at NAIC MeetingWith the end of the year 2000 state legislative sessions and the U.S. Congress winding down its post-election lame duck session, legislative activity...
Feb 12 2001 // It’s been called “the Titanic of all insolvencies”—on Dec. 3, 1985, Transit Casualty Company, domiciled in Missouri, was declared insolvent by the Cole County Circuit Court. During the late ’80s,...
Dec 19 2000 // iwix.net, an Internet specialty insurance marketplace, announced that F.L. Dean & Associates Inc. and Gulf Coast Marine have joined the iwix.net marketplace. These MGAs will add 16 new coverages to the iwix.net...
Oct 23 2000 // With only 17 percent of the nation’s 6 million horses insured, the equine market is ripe for pickingIn today’s steady economy, equine insurance could be one of the best markets you’ve never thought about...
Oct 4 2000 // iwix.net has signed up three new MGAs to their site – Russell Grace, Inc. of Fort Worth, Tex.; Vark Underwriters Agency, Ltd. of Heyworth, Ill.; and Acupuncture Insurance Services, Inc. of Elmhurst, Ill. Russell...
Sep 4 2000 // Average pretax profit and net retained revenues for MGAs and brokers increased in 1999, according to the results of the Income & Expense Survey recently completed for the National Association of Professional Surplus...
Aug 10 2000 // Five Star Managers (representing Brockbank, a Lloyd’s syndicate and part of the XL Group), ProSurance (representing ACE USA Insurance Companies), and Sterling Risk Management, an MGA for aviation products, are now a...
Jun 26 2000 // iwix.net, an Internet specialty insurance marketplace, has announced partnerships with five major Managing General Agencies (MGAs), who will be offering specialty products on the site.RA&MCO (representing Great...
May 15 2000 // Very few agencies tell short stories about agency management systems. ItÕs usually more of a trial-and-error tale that includes a series of purchases, regret and, in many cases, a happy ending that is contingent on...
May 1 2000 // It was the eve of a major trade association event, the annual convention of the American Association of Managing General Agents.AAMGA Outgoing President James A. Roe, president of Arlington/Roe &Co. Inc. in...
May 1 2000 // Follow Your Dreams” will be the theme at the 74th annual meeting of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) to be held at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Fla. from May 7-11,...