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Business Moves – South Central
Oct 22 2012 // Mission Select Insurance Services A new managing general agency — Mission Select Insurance Services LLC — has been formed in Texas with a focus on residential property. Mission Select, based in Argyle, was formed with...
Doing Business with Mobile Devices
Oct 22 2012 // Need for Risk Mitigation Grows Along With Wider Adoption Insurance agencies are in the business of managing risk for clients. But as mobile becomes mainstream, they’re facing new risks of their own. Agencies see...
Four Types of Producers
Oct 22 2012 // I have spoken at more than 200 insurance industry events. I have met with thousands of agency owners, producers and CSRs. In more than two decades of working with insurance agencies, the No. 1 need has never changed:...
One Agency – Two Producer Management Methods
Oct 22 2012 // Today, as in the past, agencies need to set the stage for future sales (both new and renewal) with continuous marketing efforts. These actions typically include brand building, highly targeted solicitations and everything...
Business Moves – Southeast
Oct 22 2012 // TWFG Texas-based The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) announced a substantial expansion of its network, adding new branches in multiple states, from California to Virginia. Many of the new branch managers are former...
Business Moves – Midwest
Oct 22 2012 // MJ Insurance, Mead & Company Property/casualty and employee benefits agency, MJ Insurance, has acquired Indianapolis-based Mead & Company. Mead & Company is a multi-generational family business operated by the...
Allstate Agents Return to Massachusetts After 25 Years
Oct 22 2012 // Allstate Insurance Co. is reopening brick-and-mortar offices in Massachusetts after a quarter century of absence. Back in 1987, the Northbrook, Ill.-headquartered Allstate closed its offices in Massachusetts and pulled out...
Business Moves – East
Oct 22 2012 // Bollinger, The Morville Agency Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance brokerage Bollinger Inc. has acquired The Morville Agency of Newton, N.J. The Morville Agency specializes in insuring New Jersey public entities. The...
North Carolina Big ‘I’ Agents Elect Purinai Chairman
Oct 19 2012 // Members of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) have elected David Purinai, who is president of MSH Insurance in Rocky Mount, N.C., as the association’s new chairman of the board of directors...
Aon’s Affinity Healthcare Opens PL Programs to Independent Agents
Oct 19 2012 // Affinity Healthcare, the consumer, association and group program business of Aon Risk Solutions, is now providing open access to its Affinity Health Care programs to insurance brokers nationwide. Over the years, Aon...
Independent Agencies Continue Growing in Number, Revenues: Study
Oct 18 2012 // The number of independent insurance agencies has increased, newer agencies are growing and the system as a whole is dynamic, according to the 2012 Agency Universe Study. The study also documents that independent agencies...
N.Y. Brokerage Frank Crystal & Co. Rebranded as Crystal & Co.
Oct 18 2012 // New York-based brokerage Frank Crystal & Company is rebranding the firm as Crystal & Company. The family-owned and operated firm was established in New York’s Wall Street in 1933 and has since grown to more...
BrokersLink Adds 13 Members, Expands Internationally
Oct 18 2012 // Independent insurance broker network BrokersLink has added 13, bringing its total to 70 in almost 100 countries, managing premium volumes in excess of $14 billion from 300 offices globally, the company said. The network...
OneBeacon Cuts Ties with Hagerty Agencies, Selling Essentia to Markel
Oct 17 2012 // OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. is selling its Essentia Insurance Co. unit to Markel Corp., according to company announcements this morning. Essentia focuses on the collector car and boat business that the company writes...
Astonish’s 4th Annual E-Agent Summit is Close at Hand – Join Over 500 Insurance Professionals at One of the Biggest Insurance Marketing Events of the Year
Oct 16 2012 // Warwick, RI, 10/16/12 – Astonish is a digital marketing solutions and insurance sales training company focused on growing local insurance agencies into successful, selling powerhouses prepared to serve the modern...
Tri-State Insurance Agents Group Names Officers
Oct 15 2012 // The fall marks a new administrative year for Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group and its partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The following directors have been elevated...
Vice Mayor of California Town, an Insurance Broker, Convicted of Embezzlement
Oct 15 2012 // The vice mayor of a small Contra Costa County, California, city faces an uncertain future after he was found guilty of felony embezzlement of insurance premiums. Clayton Vice Mayor Joe Medrano is also an insurance broker...
ITC Is Largest Provider of Insurance Websites in United States
Oct 15 2012 // Carrollton, TX, 10/15/12 – Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a leading provider of marketing, rating and management software and services, announced that more than 2,000 agencies are currently using Insurance...
Wrongful Death Claim In U.S. Border Patrol Shooting In Southern California
Oct 14 2012 // The family of a 32-year-old mother of five shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he rode on her car’s hood in suburban San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim against the agency, saying the agent had a...
State Fund Chief Holds High Expectations for Calif. Workers’ Comp
Oct 14 2012 // If all goes well, workers’ compensation reform in California may yield even greater savings than originally believed. That is according to State Fund President and CEO Tom Rowe, who gave the keynote speech on Friday...
