All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2005 // First Acceptance Corporation, a provider of non-standard personal automobile insurance, announced it has acquired the assets of San Marcos, Texas-based HCS Claims Service Inc. dba Heritage Claims Services Inc., and LGNP...
Jan 7 2005 // AssuranceAmerica Corp., an Atlanta-based insurance company with operations in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina has received approval from the Alabama Department of Insurance to commence insurance operations in that...
Dec 6 2004 // Partners Continue to Come and Go, But It’s a Great Time to Jump in the GameProgram business over the past 10-15 years has been a rocky road for the insurance industry. Companies are in the game today, but gone...
Dec 3 2004 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently issued a draft Proposed Broker Discloser Amendment to the Producer Licensing Model Act, and requested industry and public comment before commencing...
Nov 19 2004 // Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company (NYSE:HRH ), the eighth largest insurance and risk management intermediary, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the stock of Smith, Bell & Thompson, Inc., a Vermont-based...
Nov 1 2004 // American Wholesale Insurance Group (AmWINS), the Charlotte, N.C.-based independent wholesale insurance broker, has formed a new specialty team to focus exclusively on management and professional liability products.Called...
Oct 25 2004 // Some say it’s over—the hard market, that is. Certainly in some areas of professional liability this is true. Many renewal premiums in 2004 are flat, or are even dropping by 10 percent or more. Not withstanding the...
Sep 6 2004 // Something different was definitely in the air at a seminar put on by the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) last June. As the group of MGAs and wholesale brokers settled in for the introductory dinner...
Jul 20 2004 // A.D. Carlton Insurance is a new specialty wholesale broker and MGA located in Irving, Texas, formed to assist agents in placing crane accounts, equipment rental/distribution companies, steel erection, millwright and a...
Jul 12 2004 // Insurance Marketing & Management Services (IMMS) has announced the launch of IMMSmarkets.com, an online service that allows retail insurance agencies to submit their markets needs, free of charge, to a network of...
Jul 5 2004 // Like a commercial airline scrambling to squeeze out a profit in the face of increased competition and skyrocketing fuel prices, many insurance agents find themselves caught in the downward spiral of another soft market...
Jun 21 2004 // As the producer of an insurance agency or brokerage, your business means everything to you. Years of hard work have finally paid off to ownership of your agency—but are you prepared to deal with the unexpected challenges...
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...