Monthly Archives: <span>April 2013</span>

Agency Principals, Producers, CSRs, All Employees: Which Operations Most Affect Profits?

Agency and brokerage principals and CSRs and all other employees: You are invited to participate in a unique Agency Operations & Profit Survey that takes less than 10 minutes to complete and will provide you with key information on how …

Scottsdale in Arizona Names Davis Vice President

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Scottsdale Insurance Co. named Karen Davis vice president of agency management and business development. Davis will oversee the product management, research and new business development areas, reporting to Gary Tiepelman, senior vice president of contract underwriting. Davis is …

Leavitt Pacific Taps Groff as a Producer in California

Leavitt Pacific Insurance named Susan Groff as a commercial lines producer in Northern California. Groff has more than 16 years of experience in property/casualty insurance and workers’ compensation. She has worked with many types of contractors including painting and decorating …

ACE Launches Agriculture P&C Business

The ACE Group has formed ACE Agribusiness, an agriculture property and casualty insurance business. ACE Agribusiness is comprised of Penn Millers Insurance Co., acquired by ACE in 2011, and the Farm and Ranch division of Rain and Hail Insurance Service, …

Seacurus Launches Marine Insurance Coverage for Unpaid Crew Wages

Marine insurance intermediary Seacurus has launched a new insurance policy to indemnify seafarers in the event of the financial default of their employers and includes recompense in respect of unpaid crew wages. The policy will enable all employers of seafarers …

New Partners Named at Texas-Based Insurance Staffing Firms

Questpro Consultants and Q TEMPS have named new partners for the Dallas-based insurance recruiting and staffing firms, the companies announced. At Questpro, Johnny Park and Jason Simmons have been named the second and third partners of the 16-year-old firm. Q …

Mass.-Based Agency Berry Insurance Appoints President

Berry Insurance, a Massachusetts-based independent insurance agency, recently promoted Kaitlyn Pintarich to president of the agency. Pintarich joined the agency in 2003 and worked her way up through different positions within the agency. She is a licensed property and casualty …

U.S. Risk Acquires Texas Brokers’ Staffing/Employee Leasing Business

Dallas-based U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. announced it has acquired the renewal rights to the book of staffing and employee leasing accounts of CIC Insurance Brokers LLC, based in Abilene, Texas. This business will be written by U.S. Risk Inc.’s …

Man Pleads Guilty in Oklahoma to Pocketing Agent Commissions

The owner of a company in Bixby, Okla., has pleaded guilty to taking commissions earned by insurance agents working for his company, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. Christopher Bland, with Business Consulants of South Tulsa, admitted in his plea agreement …

N.J. Transit: Post-Sandy Costs $450M and Still Rising; Federal Funds, Insurance to Cover Losses

The costs continue to mount for New Jersey Transit in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. At its monthly board meeting Wednesday, the agency approved paying another $28 million to a Canadian company to repair locomotives damaged when the rail yard …