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Agent, Cyber-Educate Yourself – and Your Clients
Nov 16 2015 // A recent report showing that cyber insurance premiums will grow globally from $2 billion annually to more than $20 billion over the next 10 years reinforces what most in the insurance industry already know: cyber risks are...
Agent, Cyber-Educate Yourself – and Your Clients
Nov 16 2015 // A recent report showing that cyber insurance premiums will grow globally from $2 billion annually to more than $20 billion over the next 10 years reinforces what most in the insurance industry already know: cyber risks are...
Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford to Sell North American Business
Nov 13 2015 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), the U.K.-based global wholesale, underwriting management and reinsurance broking group, announced today that, following a strategic review of its group businesses, the company will...
Integro Acquires Ellis Clowes, UK-Based Motorsports Specialty Broker
Nov 13 2015 // Integro Ltd., the New York-based insurance broker and risk management firm, has become “the world’s leading motorsports insurance broker,” with the acquisition of Lloyd’s broker Ellis...
O’Connor Joins Southwest Risk as Sr. VP, Broker, Underwriter
Nov 12 2015 // Joe O’Connor has joined Texas-based Southwest Risk LP as senior vice president, broker and underwriter with a primary focus on developing new Marine & Energy products. He is based in Houston. O’Connor has...
Westfield Insurance Foundation Scholarship Honors Outgoing CEO
Nov 12 2015 // The Westfield Insurance Foundation is creating the James R. Clay Scholarship to honor its outgoing chairman and CEO. The Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. (OFIC) board of directors authorized the transfer of $100,000 to the...
CAL Insurance Adds Danfoura to Commercial Brokerage Team
Nov 10 2015 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named Fred H. Danfoura to its commercial brokerage team. Danfoura joins CAL in to increase the firm’s presence in the educational, nonprofit and investment real estate...
Burns & Wilcox Brokerage Names Parks Vice President in Arizona
Nov 9 2015 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has named Susie Parks vice president and senior broker in the firm’s Scottsdale, Ariz. office. Parks will focus on real estate, hospitality, products and product recall coverage. Parks...
‘Best Practices’ Agencies Continue to Build Value: Big ‘I Study
Nov 9 2015 // Most “Best Practices” independent insurance agencies have been able to either grow or maintain the value of their businesses while focusing on staff development and technology, according to the latest report by...
CITA Insurance Services Launches Insurance Agents E&O Program
Nov 6 2015 // CITA Insurance Services, a division of Brown & Brown Program Insurance Services Inc., has released a new Insurance Agents Errors & Omissions program. CITA’s new Agents E&O program features vanishing and...
Independent Agency Profitability, Organic Growth Dipped in Q3: Reagan Consulting
Nov 6 2015 // Independent insurance agents and brokers posted median organic growth of 4.4 percent for the third quarter of 2015, compared with 6.0 percent in the third quarter of 2014, as measured by the Reagan Consulting Organic...
KeyCorp Aims to Leverage First Niagara’s Insurance Brokerage Business in N.Y.
Nov 5 2015 // Financial services company KeyCorp, which recently announced its plan to acquire First Niagara Financial Group in Buffalo, New York, said the company would leverage and grow First Niagara’s insurance brokerage...
EPIC Brings on Garcia as Broker in California
Nov 5 2015 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Daniel Garcia a property/casualty insurance broker/producer in the firm’s Petaluma, Calif. office. Garcia will report locally to Mike Ryan, the North Bay managing...
Property Specialist Otis Sanders II Joins Breckenridge Insurance Services as Vice President, Broker
Nov 5 2015 // Atlanta, GA, November 5, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, is pleased to announce Otis Sanders II has joined the organization as vice president, broker....
MarketScout Hires McGee as Workers’ Compensation Broker in Philadelphia
Nov 4 2015 // MarketScout, a national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA based in Dallas, has hired John McGee as broker in the Workers’ Compensation Brokerage division. He is based in Philadelphia. In his new role,...
The Case for Independent Agency Optimism
Nov 4 2015 // Over the past few years, dire predictions about the independent agent’s future have gotten a lot of attention. With consumers increasingly adopting the latest technology-driven shopping and buying behaviors, some...
Do’s and Don’ts of E&O Suits
Nov 3 2015 // Ask any agent who has suffered through an errors and omissions (E&O) suit and they will provide sage-like insight into the professional and even personal trials created by such an ordeal. Years ago I met an agent who,...
Arthur J. Gallagher Buys Canada Broker Christie-Phoenix & Its Affiliate, Discovery
Nov 3 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher, the international broking division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. outside of the United States, has extended its investment in Canada with the acquisition of retail insurance broker Christie-Phoenix...
Agent, Cyber-Educate Yourself – and Your Clients
Nov 2 2015 // A recent report showing that cyber insurance premiums will grow globally from $2 billion annually to more than $20 billion over the next 10 years reinforces what most in the insurance industry already know: cyber risks are...
Odyssey Partners Completes Acquisition of Broker Integro
Nov 2 2015 // New York private equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners has completed its acquisition of specialty insurance brokerage Integro Ltd. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Integro said its management team...
