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Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2020: Midwest Region

Dec 28 2020 // Motorcycle helmets, protest damage and COVID-19 pandemic-related lawsuits dominated the headlines in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2020. Here’s a look back at some of most read stories for the Midwest...

Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2020: South Central Region

Dec 28 2020 // The weather, as usual, made for many headlines in Insurance Journal’s South Central region in 2020. COVID-19 related lawsuits and transactions involving nonstandard auto business also made news. Here’s a look...

Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2020: West Region

Dec 28 2020 // Wildfires were the big story in the Western U.S. in 2020.And a big underlying theme in those stories is what was being done to deal with them. One of the top stories in Insurance Journal’s Western region was when...

Insurance Journal’s Annual Charity Issue: Deadline Tomorrow

Dec 3 2020 // This is the last week to submit for Insurance Journal’s Charity Issue. This annual special issue of Insurance Journal’s print magazine highlights some of the many charitable tales in insurance. Share your...

Kevelighan: Talks with Institutes on Creating 21st Century Triple III Began Years Ago

Nov 16 2020 // Affiliating with The Institutes provides an opportunity for the industry’s Insurance Information Institute (III) to become more of a 21st Century trade association, rather than one suited for the 1950s, according to...

Celebrating 50 Years at the Helm of Insurance Journal

Oct 19 2020 // Entrepreneur, innovator, oenophile, insurance industry icon, all around great guy.That’s Mark Wells, the force behind Insurance Journal and Wells Media Group, who this year is celebrating his 50th anniversary in...

50 Years at the Helm of Insurance Journal

Oct 12 2020 // Entrepreneur, innovator, oenophile, insurance industry icon, all around great guy.That’s Mark Wells, the force behind Insurance Journal and Wells Media Group, who this year is celebrating his 50thanniversary in...

Welcome to Insurance Journal’s annual Top 20 Agency Partnerships report. This report is ranked by total property/casualty revenue for 2019.

Sep 21 2020 // Today’s Agency Partnerships are numerous and offer value and benefits to their members, including independence, growth opportunities, access to markets, profit sharing, perpetuation planning, relationships,...

As FAIA Chief Grady Says Goodbye, He Shares His Top 10 Moments

Aug 27 2020 // For 22 years, the Florida Association of Insurance Agents has been led by Jeff Grady, president and chief executive officer, who admits that when he started all those years ago he did not expect to “fall in love with...

Insurance Journal Offers Free Agency for Sale Listings. What’s the Catch?

Jul 30 2020 // Insurance Journal announced that insurance agency owners looking to sell their agencies may post agency-for-sale listings on the highest trafficked property/casualty insurance news site in the world. For free.What’s...

2020 Super Regional P/C Insurers

Jul 6 2020 // Demotech Inc. Reveals Leading Multi-State Property/Casualty Insurers In order to continue the discussion regarding what constitutes a Super Regional P/C Insurer™ and to give definition to this important group of...

COVID-19 Will Have Biggest Impact on Cannabis Space, Poll Shows

Apr 20 2020 // COVID-19 will have the biggest impact on cannabis and insurance the rest of this year and into the foreseeable future, according to the majority of participants in Insurance Journal’s April 15 webinar “Insuring...

Despite Insurance Industry Concerns, More States Introduce COVID-19 BI Bills

Apr 15 2020 // New Jersey was the first state to propose a bill that would mandate insurers cover COVID-19-related losses under their business interruption policies, and the insurance industry was quick to express its concern. But that...

Massachusetts Joins Ohio, N.J. in Proposing COVID-19 Business Interruption Bill

Mar 31 2020 // Massachusetts is one of the latest states to propose legislation that would mandate insurers cover COVID-19 related business interruption claims despite virus exclusions in many policies.This comes as Insurance Journal...

How East Insurance Regulators Are Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Mar 25 2020 // As insurers continue to monitor the spread and impact of COVID-19, insurance regulators across the East region of the U.S. are issuing guidance on how the industry can respond.“There is almost no aspect of the...

Auto Insurer Windhaven National Ordered Into Liquidation by Texas Court

Mar 9 2020 // Texas-based private passenger auto insurer Windhaven National Insurance Co. (WNIC), a subsidiary of Windhaven Insurance, has been ordered into liquidation at the request of the Texas Department of Insurance, which was...

Windhaven Insurance Ceasing Operations; Texas Placing Windhaven National into Receivership

Mar 9 2020 // Auto and home insurer Windhaven Insurance has alerted its agents and employees that it is winding down the insurance operations of its entities, including Windhaven National Insurance Co., ClutchAnalytics and The Hearth...

Handshakes, Buffets Out. Otherwise It’s Insurance Conferences-as-Usual Amid Coronavirus.

Mar 3 2020 // As the coronavirus and its COVID-19 disease spread, Insurance professionals going to industry conferences over the next few weeks and months could find themselves having their temperature taken at the door and being told...

Agency M&As: Private Equity Still in Driver’s Seat; Digital Agencies Attract Attention

Mar 2 2020 // The private equity bandwagon continued to roll through the insurance agency and brokerage mergers and acquisitions territory in 2019. As many as two-thirds of all deals involved private equity, according to experts. Most...

Windhaven Insurance Ceasing Operations, Assets to be Auctioned Off

Feb 27 2020 // Auto and home insurer Windhaven Insurance has alerted its agents and employees in Florida that it is winding down the insurance operations of its entities, including Windhaven National Insurance Co., ClutchAnalytics and...