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Wells Fargo Renews Hunt for Insurance Brokerages to Buy
Jan 11 2016 // Wells Fargo & Co. is restarting efforts to expand its insurance brokerage business through acquisitions after previously announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) aspirations did not pan out. Laura Schupbach,...
New York Insurance Agent Couple Charged With Defrauding Clients
Jan 7 2016 // New York authorities announced that a Rochester, New York, couple has been charged with defrauding their Rochester insurance agency clients. Gary Gubiotti and Bonnie Gubiotti, both 67, are accused of stealing more than...
Florida Surplus Line Service Office Names Young Assistant Director of Agent Services
Jan 7 2016 // Bryan Young Florida Surplus Line Service Office (FSLSO) has promoted Bryan Young to assistant director of Agent Services Young stepped into the role effective Jan. 1 after 10 years of service with FSLSO. During his tenure...
Schinnerer Launches New Cyber Protection Package
Jan 6 2016 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Company has launched its Cyber Protection Package. Using Schinnerer’s online broker portal, brokers can quote a cyber policy in minutes by answering a few basic questions about their...
Stone Creek in California Adds 3 to Workforce
Jan 5 2016 // Lafayette, Calif.-based Stone Creek Insurance Agency has hired three new producers/account managers. Matthew Johnson has been named a commercial lines broker. He specializes in commercial property and liability policies...
Founders Professional Promotes Williams to Professional Liability Broker
Jan 5 2016 // Founders Professional has promoted Jaimee Williams to professional liability broker in Chicago. Williams will be responsible for the continued expansion of Founders’ footprint in the small law firm space. Williams...
H.W. Kaufman Financial Group Acquires New Orleans-Area Brokerage
Jan 4 2016 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., has acquired B&F Special Risks Inc., a New Orleans (Metairie), La.-based specialty insurance broker. B&F Special Risks was founded in 1977 by J....
Fitch Expects Modest Gains for U.S. Insurance Brokers in 2016
Jan 4 2016 // Revenues and earnings for public U.S. insurance brokers are likely to modestly improve in 2016 relative to levels reported through nine months of 2015, according to Fitch Ratings’ 2016 U.S. Insurance Broker Outlook...
Insurance Innovators Group Now Known as AmWINS Access
Jan 4 2016 // Effective January 1, 2016, the group of five Insurance Innovators wholesale insurance brokerages known as The III Group has been renamed AmWINS Access Insurance Services, a division of AmWINS Group Inc. The III...
Heffernan Insurance Brokers Promotes Maggard to VP in St. Louis
Dec 31 2015 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has promoted Tiffany Maggard to vice president. She is based in St. Louis, Mo. Maggard first joined Heffernan’s St. Louis team in 2008 as a sales associate. She perfected her knowledge of...
Ridesharing Dominates 2016 Western Region Headlines
Dec 30 2015 // Goodbye to the news year 2015, and while there will be no shortage of headline-making topics to associate with the passing year, there was one subject that dominated Insurance Journal’s Western region news...
Wall Street May Create UK-Like Registry of Misbehaving Bankers, Traders
Dec 29 2015 // Bankers’ misdeeds would be cataloged, by name, on a private registry for hiring managers under a proposal that’s gaining traction as Wall Street firms struggle to restore reputations damaged by the financial...
Expert: How Payroll Misclassification Impacts California Workers’ Comp
Dec 29 2015 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Premium misclassification or payroll misclassification is a significant issue for the workers’ compensation industry, according to Bret Shroyer, a solutions architect for Denver,...
Big ‘I’ Names Hanley as Director of Agency E&O Program
Dec 29 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (Big “I”) has named James Hanley as the new director of its agency errors and omissions insurance program. Hanley will lead the insurance and risk...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Australia’s Strathearn Insurance Brokers
Dec 28 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired 100 percent of the capital stock of Strathearn Insurance Group Pty Ltd., headquartered in Perth, Australia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1993,...
Former Southern California Insurance Broker Found Guilty of Stealing Premiums
Dec 23 2015 // Mia Chang, 51, former insurance broker and owner of Lotte Insurance Services in Southern California, was sentenced for felony insurance fraud and grand theft. Moments after her arrest Chang returned $19,218 in stolen...
Why Specialist Brokers Need to Become Content Marketers: Commentary
Dec 22 2015 // If you’re only an occasional consumer of marketing advice, you might think it’s crucial to learn everything there is to know about analytics and Big Data to effectively promote yourself and your brokerage....
Wells Fargo Renews Hunt for Insurance Brokerages to Buy
Dec 21 2015 // Wells Fargo & Co is restarting efforts to expand its insurance brokerage business through acquisitions after previously announced M&A aspirations did not pan out. Laura Schupbach, executive vice president and head...
Indiana High Court Allows Negligence Claim Against Agent
Dec 21 2015 // Indiana’s high court has confirmed a lower court’s summary judgment favoring a property insurer that denied a homeowner’s claim after discovering that misleading information about the condition of the...
Austin Agents Honor Ladner with Distinguished Service Award
Dec 17 2015 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin (IIAA) honored Gerald Ladner, State Auto’s Western Region president, with its Distinguished Service Award for 2015. Ladner won a similar award from the Independent Insurance...
