All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2001 // BB&T Corporation, the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based financial services company with strong insurance interests, is maintaining its strategy of expansion across the southern U.S. by agreeing in principle to merge with...
Nov 19 2001 // As recession looms and claims costs associated with the terrorist attacks on September 11 add up, insurance markets are beginning to harden for the first time in nearly a decade. Many major property and casualty carriers,...
Oct 4 2001 // Insurance Technology Solutions Inc. (ITS), a provider of web-based insurance technology, announced it was selected by Interstate Insurance Group (IIG) to automate in real time the rating, quoting, binding, policy issuance,...
May 22 2001 // Medical Professional Liability Agency, Ltd a subsidiary of Frontier Insurance Group Inc, and Physician’s Reciprocal Insurance (PRI), jointly announce that PRI had entered into agreements appointing Med Pro an MGA and...
May 17 2001 // CNA Global Specialty Lines, a unit of Chicago’s CNA, based in New York, announced an alliance with London’s Ambridge Partners LLC, described as “a highly specialized managing general underwriter for...
May 14 2001 // This year the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held May 20-24 in Palm, Desert, Calif.“The Desert Springs Marriott Resort &...
May 14 2001 // Electronic communications between agents and carriers have received much attention over the years, as the struggle goes on for better technology, single entry of data and lower-cost delivery.But what if you’re a key...
May 7 2001 // This year the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) will celebrate its 75th Anniversary with a Diamond Jubilee, to be held May 20-24 in Palm, Desert, Calif.“[The Desert Springs Marriott Resort...
Apr 23 2001 // In today’s steady economy, equine insurance could be one of the best markets you’ve never thought about tapping. Then again, if you don’t know the front end of a horse from the back, it could also be the...
Apr 6 2001 // iwix.net, the Internet specialty insurance marketplace, will close effective April 30 due to its inability to secure additional funding. The exit plan has been communicated in detail to its carrier/MGA partners and its...
Mar 5 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,...
Mar 1 2001 // PRC Corp., a subsidiary of ChoicePoint® , entered into an agreement to purchase 100 percent of the stock of Insurity Solutions Inc., from an internal management group and private investors. The deal is PRC’s second...
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...