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Business Risk Partners Hires Brault as Broker Relations Director in Conn.
May 5 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Stephen L. Brault to the newly created position of director of broker relations.Stephen L. BraultIn his new role at Business Risk...
Agents’ Dream Come True? Single Password for Multiple Carriers Launched
May 5 2014 // The insurance industry is moving to end the clutter of “sticky notes” with passwords on monitors everywhere with a tool that reduces the need for agencies to keep multiple passwords. A non-profit industry...
Workers’ Compensation Fraud: The Insurance Producer’s Role
May 5 2014 // There are essentially two types of workers’ compensation fraud – premium fraud and claimant fraud – and insurance producers can play a role in the discovery and resolution of both, according to one investigator...
Competition & Best Practices Results
May 5 2014 // A recent study reviewed in The Economist (Jan. 13, 2014) proved that competition was required to foster business success and progress. This makes sense. Competition is in many ways the “invisible hand” that...
Measuring Agency Performance Can’t Be Done with Technology Alone
May 5 2014 // Bruce Cochrane of the Renaissance Alliance says agents have to measure everything to stay competitive, however that does not mean relying on technology alone, according to experts who work with and for...
Insurance Agents Learn How to Market to People Unlike Themselves
May 5 2014 // The middle-aged white woman told the audience of mostly older white male businessowners that much of the country and many of their future customers don’t look like them or necessarily share all their values. While...
Insurance Agents Urged to Follow Overstock.com, Insuritas Online Sales Model
May 2 2014 // Customers of Overstock.com can now furnish their home or office and insure them through the same source. The online retailer this week began selling small business, auto and home insurance along with furniture, rugs,...
Minnesota Agencies Maguire and Kelly Merge
May 2 2014 // Roseville, Minn.-based Maguire Agency and the Kelly Agency, a St. Paul-based commercial insurance agency, have joined forces. Employees of the Kelly Agency, which is known as a specialist in construction insurance, joined...
Burns & Wilcox Announces 2 Hires for New Florida Office
May 1 2014 // Burns & Wilcox Brokerage has hired Joe Gajewski and Clay Kadlic for its newly opened Tampa, Florida, office. In his new role as vice president at Burns & Wilcox Brokerage, Gajewski will lead the new Tampa office...
Why Some Young Agents Chose Insurance as a Career
May 1 2014 // The call to become an insurance agent is different for everyone. For Matthew Ostrow the call to become an independent agent came via social media. Thirty-year old Ostrow entered insurance just five months ago after a...
UK Underwriter APC Forms Professional Indemnity Team; Launches New Products
May 1 2014 // UK-Based commercial insurance underwriting agency APC announced the launch of its dedicated Professional Indemnity (PI) underwriting team and an expanded Professional Indemnity portfolio of products. “The new team...
High Net Worth Carrier PURE Enters California
Apr 30 2014 // Call it a little luck or good timing – maybe a bit of both– but an insurer focused on high net worth individuals has added California to the list of states in which it does business at a time when the number of wealthy...
WIAA Objects to In-House Producer Disciplinary Hearings in California
Apr 30 2014 // The Western Insurance Agents Association is throwing up some objections to a California Department of Insurance proposal that would enable the department’s hearing bureau to adjudicate agent/broker and carrier...
Insurance Wholesale Broker Insential Appoints Mileski Senior VP in Illinois
Apr 29 2014 // Insential Inc., a full service property and casualty insurance wholesale brokerage, appointed Stephen Mileski as senior vice president in its program division in Illinois. He will be responsible for developing P/C program...
Community Service a Big Part of Texas Agents’ Annual Conference
Apr 29 2014 // The young agent members of Texas’ largest independent agents association will once again kick off the group’s annual conference with a community service project. This year, the young agents of the Independent...
Insurance Agents Not Giving Up on NARAB Producer Licensing Reform
Apr 28 2014 // The insurance industry has not given up on getting Congress to pass legislation to create a national producer registry and make it easier for agents and brokers become licensed in multiple states. The Independent Insurance...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires American Wholesalers Underwriting in Connecticut
Apr 28 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. recently announced the acquisition of American Wholesalers Underwriting in Stamford, Conn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1994, American Wholesalers Underwriting...
Big ‘I’ Honors Horton Group Senior VP Wojcik with Sidney O. Smith Award
Apr 25 2014 // The Big “I” executive committee presented Mike Wojcik, senior vice president of The Horton Group and chairman of the Big “I” Healthcare Task Force, with the Sidney O. Smith Award, the Independent...
Vaughn Joins FrankCrum as Broker Manager in Texas
Apr 24 2014 // FrankCrum, a national professional employer organization, added Rodney Vaughn as a broker manager, responsible for increasing the company’s presence in Texas and forging relationships with insurance agents and...
Burand’s Agency E&O Blog: Tip #57
Apr 23 2014 // Review Renewals. While my recommendation to review renewals might seem so simple that even mentioning it might seem like I’m scratching the bottom of the barrel, I am writing this recommendation because I am seeing...
