Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri’s Independent Brokers Agency Joins CAA
Sep 5 2017 // Combined Agents of America (CAA) is expanding into Missouri with the addition of Independent Brokers Agency as a partner and voting member. CAA is a privately held agency partner group comprised of independent insurance...
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Sep 4 2017 // Optisure Risk Partners, a Manchester, N.H.-based insurance broker, has hired Randy Eifert as senior vice president of its Private Client Group and as Risk Management Practice leader. Eifert will provide executive...
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Sep 4 2017 // Greenberg Traurig LLP has added insurance regulatory attorney John A. Sebastinelli as shareholder to its policy and insurance regulatory and transactions practices in the firm’s San Francisco, Calif.,...
The Competitive Advantage: Let’s Eradicate Incompetency
Sep 4 2017 // I recently wrote an article describing my horrendous experience purchasing a new life insurance policy. I criticized the industry for employing incompetent people and egregious renewal offers. Several readers rose to...
WSIA: Past, Present and Future
Sep 4 2017 // The wholesale, specialty and surplus lines market is healthy and stable with a bright future. Proof of this can be found in recent quantitative analysis like A.M. Best’s 2017 Special Report on U.S. Surplus Lines, as...
Brokers Bucking Disruption: How Wholesalers Hang On Through Change
Sep 4 2017 // As long as there is an insurance industry, wholesaler brokers believe they will have a role to play. “We will continue to be an important sector – a small sector – but still a very important sector of how...
Judge Throws Out Obama Rule Hiking Overtime Pay
Sep 1 2017 // A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down an Obama administration rule that would have extended mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million U.S. workers, siding with business groups and 21 states that had...
Vermont’s The Richards Group Joins The Northern United Agents Alliance
Aug 29 2017 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) has announced that The Richards Group of Brattleboro, Vermont, has joined NUAA along with Davis & Towle Insurance Group of Concord, N.H., and Eaton & Berube Insurance...
Breckenridge Insurance Services Welcomes David Stamatis to Team
Aug 29 2017 // Atlanta, GA, August 29, 2017 — Breckenridge Insurance Services welcomes commercial property and casualty broker David Stamatis, ASLI as vice president. Stamatis will further the geographic office expansion of the team to...
Barbour to Take Over as CEO of Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia
Aug 29 2017 // Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia (IIAG) announced that John Barbour, currently vice president of Governmental Affairs, will serve as its new chief executive officer. Barbour will lead the association beginning Sept....
New Hampshire’s G&A Insurance Joins Northern United Agents Alliance
Aug 28 2017 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) of Concord, N.H., has announced that G&A Insurance of Dover, N.H., has joined the NUAA as a participating member. G&A Insurance is a locally-owned, full-service agency...
Georgia Insurance Agent Arrested for Misappropriating Workers’ Comp Premiums
Aug 25 2017 // An insurance agent in Floyd County, Ga., has been arrested on fraud charges related to the misappropriation of insurance premiums, according to the Georgia Department of Insurance. Marshall Irwin, 56, owner and operator of...
Massachusetts’ Boston Insurance Brokerage Promotes Two
Aug 24 2017 // Boston Insurance Brokerage (BIB), a Boston, Mass.-based national wholesale brokerage offering commercial insurance solutions, has promoted John Roderiques to associate vice president of its workers’ compensation...
Moultrie Hired as VP of Client Services of S.S. NESBITT Brokerage in Alabama
Aug 24 2017 // EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO) has hired insurance veteran Phillip Moultrie as vice president of client services for its insurance brokerage, S.S. Nesbitt (SSN), based in Birmingham, Ala. Moultrie’s immediate focus...
Miami Insurance Agent Arrested Over Assisted Living Facility Fraud Scheme
Aug 22 2017 // An investigation led by the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) Bureau of Insurance Fraud has led to the arrest of a Miami insurance agent for attempting to evade a higher insurance premium for his assisted...
U.S. Risk Announces Acquisition of B&H Risk Services, Inc.
Aug 21 2017 // Dallas, TX, August 21, 2017—U.S. Risk Insurance Group, LLC, the nation’s fifth largest Property and Casualty wholesaler, announced today that it has acquired B&H Risk Services, Inc., a Dallas, Texas based...
High Net Worth Insurance Needs More Specialists
Aug 21 2017 // The high net worth (HNW) specialty insurance market is a lucrative and developing segment of the insurance industry. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 25 percent of Americans hold 74 percent of the country’s...
Minding Your Business: The Tale of Two Values
Aug 21 2017 // It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” This opening line in Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities” summarizes the...
Former Texas Insurance Agent Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Fraud
Aug 21 2017 // A former Texas insurance agent has been sentenced to five years in prison for insurance and identity theft fraud, according to state insurance regulators. Dermaine Clark of San Antonio also was ordered to pay more than...
101 Sales, Marketing & Agency Management Ideas
Aug 21 2017 // 1. Dare to Break the Mold. We tend to hit a sweet spot of what works for us in agency management and stay there, focusing on the “sexier” sales side of the business. It’s fine to keep what works, but...
