Latest Personal Lines Headlines

All the headlines from our Personal Lines Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Personal Lines Profiles

Jun 4 2007 // Behnke & AssociatesHollywood, Fla. Owner(s)/principal(s): Fred Behnke, Scott Kinzel, Mark Introcaso, Gene McFadden2006 personal lines premium: $54.5 millionNo. of personal lines insurers: 10Behnke & Associates...

Personal Lines Profiles

Jun 4 2007 // Dawson Insurance Inc.Rocky River, Ohio Owner(s)/principal(s): D. Michael Sherman2006 personal lines premium: $26.2 millionNo. of personal lines insurers: 50Dawson Insurance Inc., founded in 1931, operates offices in both...

Personal Lines Leaders

Jun 4 2007 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in April. This list utilizes only the...

Personal Lines Leaders

Jun 4 2007 // Agency Name 2006 Personal Personal Total 2006 Main Office Main Office Web siteLines Lines P/C Premiums City State Premium Revenue Written1 Keystone Insurers Group $316.0 million $39.5 million $790.0...

Personal Lines Profiles

Jun 4 2007 // Keystone Insurers GroupNorthumberland, Penn. Owner(s)/principal(s): 1882006 personal lines premium: $316.0 millionNo. of personal lines insurers: 28Keystone Insurers Group franchisees primarily serve rural and suburban...

Brady Named Texas Personal Lines Underwriting Manager at Burns & Wilcox

May 23 2007 // Burns & Wilcox reported that Matthew Brady has joined the company as personal lines underwriting manager with responsibility for both its Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston offices. Brady will be based at Burns &...

King Insurance Adds Comprehensive Personal Liability Market

May 4 2007 // San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based King Insurance Support Systems announced it has an admitted market for comprehensive personal liability for California clients. This program is written on an admitted, monoline basis....

Burns & Wilcox Adds Woods as Personal Lines Underwriter in LA

May 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox announces that Aaron Woods has joined the company’s Los Angeles office, which is located in Woodland Hills, Calif., as a personal lines underwriter/broker. Previously, Woods spent three years as a...

Bristol West Launches Personal Auto Product in Ark.

May 1 2007 // Bristol West Holdings Inc. announced it has begun writing private passenger automobile insurance in Arkansas. Bristol West entered Arkansas by deploying Select 2.0, a segmented insurance product that utilizes the...

Main Street America Rolls Out Multivariate Personal Lines Rating

May 1 2007 // The Main Street America Group announced today the launch of its Personal Auto MVP (multivariate program), a rating program designed to provide greater pricing flexibility for the super regional property-casualty insurance...

Houston General Offers Personal Lines Insurance in Ind.

Apr 25 2007 // Indiana consumers have new options for insuring their homes, cars and other valuable assets. Mass.-based Houston General Insurance Exchange recently announced that it is now offering homeowners and auto insurance in...

Western Security Surplus Adds New Personal Lines Program

Apr 25 2007 // Pasadena, Calif.-based Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. (WSS) has added a new personal lines program for California brokers. The program is written on a non-admitted basis. Both homeowner and dwelling fire...

Hub International Midwest Limited Names Director of Personal Lines Sales

Apr 18 2007 // Hub International Midwest Limited announced today the appointment of John E. Blachaniec to the newly-created position of director of personal lines sales for the private client group in Chicago. Blachaniec will assume the...

Houston General to Enter Illinois Personal Insurance Market

Apr 10 2007 // Houston General Insurance Exchange announced that it will begin offering personal lines products – including coverage for automobiles, homes, condominiums, watercraft and personal liability – to Illinois...

Mich. Burns & Wilcox Promotes James Griffith to Director, Personal Lines

Apr 2 2007 // Burns & Wilcox has announced that James Griffith has been promoted to director of personal lines for the specialty insurance company. He is responsible for the growth and profitability of personal lines in partnership...

Three ways to bag more personal lines sales

Mar 26 2007 // The Post Office isn’t the only way to deliver insurance marketing materials. Inserts, e-mails, Web site downloads, and hand delivery are some of the other options that are available. The first three methods are...

Three ways to bag more personal lines sales

Mar 26 2007 // The Post Office isn’t the only way to deliver insurance marketing materials. Inserts, e-mails, Web site downloads, and hand delivery are some of the other options that are available. The first three methods are...

Hanover’s New Connections Home Completes Personal Lines Redesign

Mar 22 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.has launched Connections Home, a new homeowners insurance product designed to make it easier for agents to sell and retain more business by providing a total account solution.Connections...

Ohio Grange Realigns Personal Lines Division, Adds Staff

Mar 16 2007 // Grange Insurance recently announced that it has realigned its personal lines division by naming two regional personal lines presidents.Barry Hunlock has been named regional personal lines president for Illinois, Michigan,...

Ind. Missing Computer Disc with Personal Insurance Info Found

Mar 16 2007 // A missing compact disc containing unprotected personal data for 75,000 Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield members was recovered four days after the insurer began warning customers about potential privacy violations.The disc,...