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Shotts Named VP at Ascend Insurance Brokerage in Dallas
Jan 9 2017 // David Shotts joined Dallas-based Ascend Insurance Brokerage as vice president. Ascend specializes in insurance and risk management services for the entertainment industry. Shotts formerly was vice president of Risk...
How to Help Insureds Manage Customer Privacy Risk
Jan 9 2017 // Insurance carriers and agents have come to learn that increased data can lead to greater risk for insureds, and they are increasingly advising businesses to disclose data collection practices while seeking to gain...
EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Hires Delaney in New York City
Jan 9 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, a retail property, casualty brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired Melissa Delaney as a senior vice president in its Private Client Solutions Specialty...
Ascend Insurance Brokerage Taps Anderson to Lead New Nashville Office
Jan 9 2017 // Ascend Insurance Brokerage is expanding its presence with the opening of a new office in Nashville. The company has tapped Sara Anderson to head its new Nashville effort as assistant vice president of the company,...
How Brokers Can Help SMBs Reduce Cyber Risk
Jan 9 2017 // Only recently, and mostly due to pressure created in the media by high-profile cyber attacks, executives at large companies have a new awareness of cyber risks to business. As a result, companies are spending more to...
Integro Insurance Brokers Appoints Morris as New York Operations Leader
Jan 6 2017 // Integro Insurance Brokers, a New York headquartered international broker and risk management firm has appointed Deborah Morris as its New York operations leader. She succeeds Esther Ro, who is relocating to the West coast...
Hub Int’l Buys Canada’s Mainline Insurance Brokers & Affiliated Firms
Jan 5 2017 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, announced it has acquired Mainline Insurance Brokers Inc., Indian Head Agencies (1980) Ltd., R&J McKay Agencies Ltd. and Cathedral Insurance...
New York and New Jersey Brokers Join Forces, Backed by Prime Risk Partners
Jan 5 2017 // Cook Maran & Associates (Cook Maran), a New York and New Jersey based insurance broker, will acquire Mintz, Girgan & Brightly Inc. (MGB), a privately owned Rochelle Park, N.J., headquartered agency. The MGB team...
24 Independent Insurance, Benefits Agencies Form National Brokerage, Alera Group
Jan 4 2017 // There is a new national independent insurance brokerage and wealth management firm that opens its doors with more than 20,00 clients, $158 million in annual revenues and 750 employees in 40 offices across 15 states. The...
Correction: Brown & Brown’s Hull Acquires Insurance House Commercial MGA Business
Jan 3 2017 // Hull & Co., a wholesale insurance subsidiary of giant Brown & Brown, has acquired the commercial managing general agency operations of Insurance House. Insurance House is an MGA and wholesale insurance broker...
Wells Fargo Settles Brokers’ Claims of Racial Bias
Jan 3 2017 // Wells Fargo & Co. settled a dispute with a group of black brokers claiming the bank failed to give them the same career opportunities as their white colleagues. The bank will pay $35 million to more than 500 financial...
Marsh Completes Acquisition of Bluefin Insurance from AXA
Jan 3 2017 // Marsh, the wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., said it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Bluefin Insurance Group Ltd., a subsidiary of AXA UK plc, from AXA Group. Founded in 2008,...
How Agents Feel About Their Compensation from Carriers… and Other Matters
Dec 30 2016 // On a first quarter results call W.R. Berkley Corp. President and CEO Robert Berkley cited a growing and alarming level of tension between carriers and distributors, driven by what he called a fight to grow margins in the...
Why Young Insurance Agents Are So Optimistic
Dec 29 2016 // It’s no secret that the insurance industry is facing a huge talent gap. Almost half of all insurance professionals are over age 45, with 25 percent of the industry expected to retire by 2018. That’s a...
Report: Vast Majority of Surplus Lines Filings in Texas Come in on Time
Dec 29 2016 // An overwhelming majority of surplus lines policies are filed on time in Texas, according to the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas. SLTX is required by statute to file an Annual Late Filers report with the Texas...
Top 12 Insurance Trends and News Stories of 2016: Countdown
Dec 27 2016 // In the year 2016, as in past years, there were the familiar or continuing stories including reinsurers still wishing and hoping for a hardening market; property/casualty insurance carriers reporting financial results...
Authorities Say Ex-Insurance Agent in New Jersey Stole Clients’ Identities
Dec 27 2016 // State authorities say a former insurance agent assumed the identities of former clients to fraudulently apply for new life insurance policies in their names. Marta Cristina Cunha is charged with insurance fraud, identity...
Hong Kong Agents, China Insurers Face Tech-Related Disruptions: 2017 Predictions, Part 4
Dec 22 2016 // The twin forces of regulation and technology will see the emergence of new distribution models in 2017. This sounds like a commonly heard disrupter scenario for the U.S. and European markets, but it’s actually a...
All Risks to Provide E&O Coverage to PIA of Florida Members
Dec 22 2016 // All Risks, Ltd. has partnered with the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida (PIA of Florida), to provide professional liability errors and omissions insurance to its members. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, All Risks will...
Higginbotham Expands with Insurance Associates of the Southwest Merger
Dec 20 2016 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Insurance Associates of the Southwest (IAS) have merged their operations in Houston. IAS is an independent broker with 38 commercial, personal, life, health...
