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Renters’ Insurance and Millennials: If You Make it Simple, They Will Come
Sep 1 2016 // There’s a new website aimed at changing the way millennials deal with buying insurance – but it’s focused on a widely under-served segment of the insurance market – renters’ insurance. Launched by two...
Dill Joins Higginbotham as Commercial Broker in Houston
Aug 30 2016 // Insurance and financial services firm, Higginbotham, has hired commercial property/casualty insurance broker Ryan B. Dill as associate at its Houston practice. Dill joins Higginbotham’s 110 local insurance, risk...
Experienced Workers’ Compensation Brokers Augie Christian and Jessica Lovinggood Join Breckenridge Insurance Services as Vice Presidents
Aug 30 2016 // Atlanta, GA, August 30, 2016 — Breckenridge Insurance Services welcomed two experienced wholesale insurance brokers to the organization recently. Augie Christian, CPCU, CIC and Jessica Lovinggood, CIC are new vice...
California Insurance Agent Nabbed for Fraud Scheme Involving 100-plus Policies
Aug 29 2016 // Vicki Lee McGinley, 58, a licensed insurance agent in California, was arrested by the Kern County Sheriff’s department on seven counts of identity theft and seven counts of insurance fraud after allegedly...
Integro Expands Reinsurance Presence in Latin America with HRL Alliance
Aug 29 2016 // International broker and risk management firm Integro announced an agreement with HR Latinoamerica Ltda. Corredores de Reaseguros (HRL) to serve as HRL’s exclusive London wholesale reinsurance trading partner. The...
Illinois, Missouri Handle Problem of Uninsured Drivers Differently
Aug 26 2016 // Dan McMullen is an insurance agent in Ferguson, Mo. His Solo Insurance office is on West Florissant Avenue, the epicenter of the trouble two years ago. The building next to his office burned into ruins. There aren’t...
Questions, Research on Possible Synthetic Turf Link to Athletes’ Cancer Continue
Aug 26 2016 // Their son is gone. Luke Beardemphl, a standout Tacoma, Washington soccer player during his years at Stadium High School, died last year at 24, following a seven-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But Luke’s...
Former Oklahoma Insurance Agents Charged with Exploiting Elderly Man
Aug 25 2016 // Oklahoma officials have charged two former insurance agents with exploitation of an elderly person for fraudulently taking over an 89-year-old man’s financial affairs. The Oklahoma Insurance Department says the two...
Expert Gives Agents C- on Understanding of Cyber Insurance
Aug 23 2016 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based IDT911, an identity theft protection firm, isn’t too high on the industry’s knowledge of cyber insurance,...
North Carolina Agent Accused of Submitting Fraudulent Auto Policies to Allstate
Aug 22 2016 // A North Carolina insurance agent has been arrested and accused of creating false auto policies, according to a statement from North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. Eddie Ray Butler, 29, formerly of...
Executive Leadership Changes Support Growth Strategy for Breckenridge Insurance Group
Aug 22 2016 // Atlanta, GA, August 22, 2016 — Breckenridge Insurance Group has filled several key leadership positions due to planned growth. The wholesale specialty insurance provider continues its efforts to strengthen operations and...
Miami Insurance Agent Sentenced to 2 Years for Issuing Fake Policies
Aug 22 2016 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS) announced Mandy Rodriguez, 36, was convicted in July on multiple felonies, including insurance fraud, grand theft,...
101 Sales, Marketing, and Agency Management Ideas
Aug 22 2016 // Emotional Connections.Great brands avoid selling products. Great salespeople cultivate emotional connections with customers. —Harvard Business Review, August 2016 How to Increase Sales.Discuss all coverages applicable...
Agent-Broker Organic Growth Slows to 5-Year Low: Reagan Consult
Aug 22 2016 // Organic revenue growth in independent insurance agencies and brokerage fell to 4.0 percent for the second quarter of 2016, down sharply from 5.9 percent for the second quarter of 2015, and the lowest rate since 2011, as...
Small Business Satisfaction
Aug 22 2016 // No longer able to compete primarily on price, insurers are now focusing their efforts on pleasing customers, with the payoff being a significant increase in satisfaction among their small business commercial customers,...
The Top 10 Things Sharp Brokers Should Consider When Placing Cyber Liability
Aug 22 2016 // The insurance marketplace for cyber liability is constantly evolving. Technology is always improving, the level of data security and awareness is escalating and the tools used by the criminals and the bad actors are...
Former Oklahoma Insurance Agent Sentenced to Federal Prison
Aug 18 2016 // A former Oklahoma insurance agent has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for fraud, the Oklahoma Insurance Department announced. Gary Edward Hibbing, 53, was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of wire...
Americans Put Too Much Faith in Homeowners Insurance
Aug 18 2016 // Too few Americans take steps to prepare for disasters and too many assume their home insurance policies will bail them out if one strikes. As disaster season peaks, a new national consumer survey commissioned by Trusted...
Boston Insurance Brokerage’s Lynch Heads Opening of D.C. Office
Aug 18 2016 // Boston Insurance Brokerage Inc. (BIB), a provider of commercial insurance, tapped Brian Lynch, vice president of high value personal lines, to head the opening of its office in Washington D.C. Lynch initially joined the...
Independent Insurance Agents of New York Promotes MacConnell
Aug 12 2016 // Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York Inc., an insurance producer trade organization based in Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Julie MacConnell from director of marketing and communications to assistant vice...
