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Former Alfa Agent in Georgia Pleads Guilty to Misusing Premium Payments
Aug 28 2025 // A former Alfa insurance agent in Georgia pleaded guilty Wednesday to using more than $200,000 from one policyholder to cover other expenses, including the premium payments for other insureds. Jeremy Lasseter, of Warner...
Pivix Specialty Launches E&S Brokerage Unit With Gramm at Helm
Aug 20 2025 // Pivix Specialty Insurance Services Inc., a Scottsdale-based excess and surplus managing general agent distributing through wholesale brokers, has opened a brokerage division. Pivix, which is backed by Ambac Financial...
Markets/Coverages: Ryan Expands E&O Program for Small, Medium Insurance Agents
Aug 19 2025 // Managing general underwriter Ryan Financial Lines has expanded its national Insurance Agents & Brokers E&O Program, now offering an admitted product that is available to retail agents in most states. The enhanced...
Insurance Agent Earned Town’s Trust. But Officials Say He Ran a $95M Ponzi Scheme.
Aug 19 2025 // For decades, Miles “Burt” Marshall was the man you went to see in a stretch of upstate New York if you had some money to invest but wanted to keep it local. Working from an office in the charming village of...
Tampa Woman Posed as Insurance Agent, Used App to Take Payments, Indictment Says
Aug 18 2025 // A September trial for a Tampa woman charged with posing as an insurance agent and keeping thousands of dollars in auto insurance premiums has been postponed until December. Katrenia Lynette Harris, 54, was indicted by a...
Markets/Coverages: Marsh Launches BrokerSafe for Freight Broker Auto Coverage
Aug 14 2025 // Broker Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan, the launch of BrokerSafe, an exclusive insurance facility for U.S. freight broker clients seeking access to more stable and affordable freight broker auto liability...
Insurtech Looks to ‘Redefine’ Insurance With Autonomous AI Agents by 2026
Aug 13 2025 // Insurtech Superagent AI issued a press release yesterday to announce its goal of starting the first fully autonomous AI insurance agent by the end of the year. “We’re not just reshaping insurance. We’re...
Specialist Risk Group Acquires London-Based City Quarter Brokers
Aug 12 2025 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based group of insurance intermediaries, has entered into an agreement to acquire City Quarter Brokers, subject to regulatory approval. Financial details of the deal were not...
Ontario Teachers’ Sells Stake in French Broker Diot-Siaci to Private Equity Firm Ardian
Aug 8 2025 // Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has signed a definitive agreement to sell its stake in Diot-Siaci, a Paris-based corporate insurance brokerage group, to French private equity firm Ardian. Financial details of the deal...
People Moves: Crest Names Gibbs Commercial Lines Broker and Muehlebach General Counsel
Aug 8 2025 // Easton Gibbs Crest Insurance Group hired Easton Gibbs as a commercial lines broker. He most recently served as a screening solutions specialist at Exact Sciences. Gibbs previously played professional football with the...
Mercury Insurance and Safeco Insurance to Transition California Customers and Agents
Aug 6 2025 // Mercury Insurance is partnering with Liberty Mutual Insurance on a plan to provide coverage for thousands of California Safeco Insurance customers impacted by a shift in Liberty Mutual’s California personal lines...
People Moves: Resilience Hires Riviezzo to Expand Broker Network; NFP Adds Nordeen to Lead C&I Business
Aug 6 2025 // James Riviezzo Resilience, headquartered in New York City, named James C. Riviezzo as head of North American distribution and strategy. Riviezzo has over 25 years of industry experience, joining Resilience from At-Bay...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Australian Broker MACK Insurance Services
Aug 6 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced the acquisition of Australia-based MACK Insurance Services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MACK Insurance Services is a...
Business Moves: Private Equity Firm J.C. Flowers Acquires Italian Insurance Broker Caleas; UIB International Sells Minority Stake in UIB Insurance Brokers (India)
Aug 5 2025 // Private Equity Firm J.C. Flowers Acquires Italian Insurance Broker Caleas J.C. Flowers & Co. (JCF), a private equity investment firm that focuses on financial services investments, announced that investment vehicles...
Fla. Insurance Agent Charged With Premium Theft Now in Prison, Has Paid Restitution
Aug 5 2025 // A high-profile southwest Florida insurance agent who pleaded “no contest” to absconding with thousands of dollars in premiums has been sentenced to just over a year in prison. Reid J. McDaniel, 33, of North...
Independent Agencies’ Market Share Shows Small Decline; Strong Hold on Commercial Lines with Opportunity to Grow in Personal Lines
Aug 4 2025 // The independent agency channel placed 61.5% of all property/casualty insurance written in the U.S. in 2024, a slight decline from 2023 where independent agents placed 62.2% of P/C lines nationwide. That’s according...
The List Is Here! IJ’s Top 100 Independent Agencies
Aug 4 2025 // This year marks the 21st annual publication of Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Independent Agencies special report. Nearly all of the firms in the Top 100 saw notable increases in total property/casualty revenue...
Scaling Smart: How Independent Agencies Can Grow With Intention
Aug 4 2025 // In today’s competitive market, independent insurance agencies are under increasing pressure to grow. Organic growth is harder to achieve, client expectations are evolving, and technology is reshaping how agencies...
Former Insurance Agent Arraigned in Scam for Fake Cannabis Business
Aug 1 2025 // A formerly licensed insurance agent was arraigned this week on multiple felony charges involving fraud for duping people to invest in a non-existent marijuana business. Matthew Evans, 36, of Palmdale, pleaded not guilty to...
Broker WTW Beats Q2 Profit Estimates on Robust Product Demand
Jul 31 2025 // Willis Towers Watson beat Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit on Thursday, driven by a strong performance in its risk and brokerage business. Despite rising premium costs, businesses increased spending on...
