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All Risks Acquires Sports, Entertainment Broker Alive Risk from NAS
Jun 12 2014 // Independent national wholesale broker All Risks Ltd. said it has acquired Alive Risk, a division of California-based NAS Insurance Services that specializes in entertainment, media, special events, film productions and...
MHBT’s Arthur to Serve as Chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jun 12 2014 // Pat Arthur The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Pat Arthur, shareholder at MHBT in Dallas, to serve as chairman for 2014-2015 during IIAT’s 117th Annual Conference and Trade Show in San...
Washington Commissioner Disciplines Producers for Violations
Jun 10 2014 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued fines to several insurance companies, agents and brokers who violated state insurance regulations during May. The fines totaled $12,250. They are: Insurance companies Benefit...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds Two Agencies in Illinois
Jun 10 2014 // Keystone Insurers Group, based in Northumberland, Pa., announced the addition of two more independent insurance agencies in Illinois to its expanding franchise business. Resource Insurance of DeKalb and Pufalt-Pauley...
What Makes Agents Switch Carriers: Channel Harvest Research
Jun 9 2014 // Most independent insurance agents stick with their top personal lines and commercial lines companies for years, although they are less-than-satisfied in a number of carrier-performance areas. This is among the many...
Virginia-Based Beacon Hill Associates Hires Assistant VP
Jun 9 2014 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc., a wholesale insurance broker and program administrator based in Charlottesville, Virginia, has hired Ursula Knowles as assistant vice president, information development. Knowles will be...
PIA, Floodbroker.com Offer Agents Flood Insurance Sales Tool
Jun 9 2014 // The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) has formed a partnership with Floodbroker.com that allows agents to sell flood insurance. Through PIA’s exclusive partnership, PIA members’...
West Virginia Takes Down All Business Files After Insurance Agent’s Data Disclosed
Jun 4 2014 // Secretary of State Natalie Tennant’s office has removed all business filings from its website after one displayed an individual’s Social Security number. Tennant told WCHS-TV that the image displaying the...
Wildfire Publicity Lights Fire Under California Homeowners
Jun 3 2014 // The recent plague of wildfires in Southern California and in neighboring states seems to have more people checking on their homeowners policies – and more people concerned about the threat of wildfires may be taking some...
Swett & Crawford Adds Broker to Property Practice Group in New Jersey
Jun 2 2014 // Swett & Crawford, part of Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), a global wholesale and reinsurance broking group, appointed Todd Morin as vice president and broker for the property practice group. He is based in...
What Makes Agents Switch Carriers
Jun 2 2014 // Most independent insurance agents stick with their top personal lines and commercial lines companies for years, although they are less-than-satisfied in a number of carrier-performance areas. This is among the many...
The Importance of Having an Integrated Services Solution
Jun 2 2014 // U.S. multinational businesses are increasingly seeking opportunities in new regions of the world, expanding outside of the United States and continental Europe into sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. As their...
LevelFirst Adds Revett as Senior Broker in Dallas
May 30 2014 // LevelFirst, a wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, announced Kevin Revett has joined the firm as a senior broker. Kevin Revett Revett brings 13 years of wholesale production experience to...
Various Factors Contributing to Stability in Property/Casualty Insurance Market
May 29 2014 // The federal terrorism risk insurance backstop, in place in one form or another since 2002, will likely be reauthorized by Congress, and in the absence of a major catastrophe — man-made or otherwise — the current...
TurboRater Feature Lets Agents Control Carrier Ranking in Comparative Rating
May 29 2014 // The newest agency software feature for the personal lines comparative rating system TurboRater allows agency managers to control the ranking order of the carriers their producers see on the quote comparison list,...
Willis Completes Acquisition of Specialist Broker Charles Monat
May 29 2014 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced that it has received the relevant regulatory approvals from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has completed its acquisition of specialist broker Charles Monat Limited, a life...
Vertafore Unveils New Cloud-Based Technology for Insurance Agencies
May 28 2014 // Vertafore, an insurance software provider, has upgraded its entire portfolio of agency systems for small, mid-size and enterprise insurance agencies. The Sagitta 2014, Vertafore Agency Platform 2014 and AMS360 2014 systems...
FTC Calls for Consumer Disclosure by Data Brokers
May 28 2014 // Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about “nearly all” U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators said on...
Ascoma International Group Joins Worldwide Broker Network
May 28 2014 // Worldwide Broker Network has announced that Ascoma Group has joined the fully integrated WBN network of independent insurance brokers and employee benefits consultants, “which now counts 96 member firms in 101...
West Virginia Insurance Agent, Building Owner Sentenced for Arson Scheme
May 27 2014 // A West Virginia insurance agent and a building owner were sentenced in federal court last week in connection with a Logan arson scheme. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said that James Gregory Glick, 44, of Logan, was sentenced...
