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Alliant Adds 3 to Georgia-Based Construction Services Team
Jul 25 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services, a nationwide specialty insurance brokerage firm, has made three additions to its Construction Services Group headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga. Danielle Maxey has joined as account executive. In...
BondExchange Upgrades Surety Bond Agent Platform
Jul 24 2018 // In response to feedback from its agents, BondExchange, a wholesale surety broker, has upgraded its insurance agent platform bondexchange.com, which offers access to a database of more than 10,000 different surety bonds for...
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Hires D’Agostino in New York City
Jul 24 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, a retail property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and consulting firm, has announced that Lou D’Agostino and his Iron Cove Partners team have joined...
Brown & Riding Adds Pike as Property Broker in Dallas
Jul 23 2018 // Brown & Riding Insurance Services Inc. has hired Ryan Pike as a property broker in its Dallas office. Pike specializes in placing difficult manufacturing as well as Property and Inland Marine risks in the oil and gas...
What’s New in Today’s Construction Insurance Market
Jul 23 2018 // Brokers who specialize in the construction industry love their clients and are very committed to keeping up with their needs. Ask them, “So what’s new?” and the conversations inevitably veer off in...
Appalachian Underwriters Adds Stavrakos to Brokerage Division in Florida
Jul 23 2018 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has added Peter Stavrakos to its brokerage office in Sarasota, Fla. He will be joining the Professional Liability team where he will focus on the coverage needs of both smaller and larger...
AXIS Insurance Promotes Randell to Head of Canada Insurance & Chief Agent, Canada
Jul 20 2018 // AXIS Insurance, a business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the promotion of Brad Randell to head of Canada Insurance, and chief agent, Canada, subject to review and/or approval of various Canadian...
Brooks Insurance Appoints Sammons to Lead Florida/Southeast Market Expansion
Jul 20 2018 // Brooks Insurance Agency, a multi-line wholesaler and broker, has hired Robert Sammons as vice president and broker. In his new role, Sammons will be responsible for wholesale brokering and servicing small- and medium-...
Risk Services’ Eppers Elected to Louisiana Agents & Brokers Group Board
Jul 19 2018 // Rob Eppers, chief operating officer for Risk Services of Louisiana, was recently sworn in as an elected board member of the Independent Insurance Agency & Brokers of Louisiana (IIABL). As a board member, Eppers will be...
Florida Agencies Clegg Insurance Group, Advanced Insurance Brokerage Merge
Jul 19 2018 // Clegg Insurance Group and Advanced Insurance Brokerage (AIB), both in the Tampa, Fla., area – signed off on a new deal last month that will merge the companies’ property and casualty coverage portfolios. Together,...
How the Florida Insurance Industry Hopes to Rein In AOB Crisis
Jul 19 2018 // “I think the number one thing the insurance industry can do is link AOB (assignment of benefits) to the impact that it’s having on the individual consumer and the huge impact it’s having on the premiums...
EPIC Insurance Brokers Adds Close to Energy Construction Practice in Alabama
Jul 18 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has tapped Josh Close as client services coordinator in the firm’s Birmingham, Ala.-based national energy construction practice, reporting to EPIC Principal Brian Tanner. Close...
Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Seen as Business Friend, Regulation Skeptic
Jul 17 2018 // Brett Kavanaugh could add a powerful new voice on the Supreme Court to restrain what government agencies can do, ushering in a new era of tougher scrutiny of federal regulations loathed by businesses. In a dozen years on...
Industry Needs to ‘Question and Call Out’ Rogue MGAs, Says Chilton of Gallagher
Jul 17 2018 // While there’s a bright future for managing general agents that “get it right,” Grahame Chilton, CEO of Gallagher UK, warns against tolerating the few rogue MGAs who could ruin the reputation of the entire...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires The Jack Nebel Companies in Illinois
Jul 16 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired North Barrington, Ill.-based The Jack Nebel Companies Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Jack Nebel, Brian Nebel and their associates will continue to operate from their...
J.M. Wilson Taps Francis, Gibbons and Hassan in Midwest
Jul 16 2018 // J.M. Wilson has named Steve Francis as assistant transportation underwriter in the Arlington Heights, Ill. office. The firm has also named Ryan Gibbons a transportation underwriter in the Westerville, Ohio office, and...
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Jul 16 2018 // Worldwide Facilities has opened a new location in Morehead City, N.C., where Kasey Vaughn joined as senior vice president. Vaughn brings 17 years of experience in wholesale personal and commercial lines practice. She...
Analytics Advice for Agencies How, Why and Where Agencies Should Use Data Analytics
Jul 16 2018 // The data insurance agencies and brokerages possess is ever-growing. Thus, agency managers need to be able to answer how, why, and where they can successfully analyze and use all of this data. The answer to the...
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Jul 16 2018 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Jeffrey L. Brady of Brady, Chapman, Holland & Associates (BCH) in Houston to serve as IIAT chair for 2018-19. Brady was elected during IIAT’s 121st Annual...
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Jul 16 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added Sarmad Naqvi to its private client insurance operations. EPIC has also named Eric Kitei a principal in its operations in Southern California. Naqvi will be based in...
