Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wisconsin’s Sentry Insurance Cuts Office Jobs, Home-Based Agents
Sep 9 2012 // Sentry Insurance, based in Stevens Point, Wis., says it’s cutting 27 office jobs in central Wisconsin and 144 home-based agents across 10 states as it restructures its strategy for selling personal line policies....
New Features Added to General Star Insurance Agents Program
Sep 7 2012 // General Star has made a number of enhancements to its insurance agents errors & omissions program. Distributed on an exclusive basis by program administrator All Risks, Ltd., the coverage continues to be written by...
New Marine Wholesale Brokerage Opens for Business in Florida
Sep 7 2012 // Florida has a new wholesale insurance broker specializing in marine industry risks. Founded by Steve Cunningham, Theresa Proios-Jewell and other associates with marine insurance experience, Legacy Underwriters is based out...
IBA West Members To Vote On Name Change
Sep 7 2012 // IBA West is entertaining a name change. The group, which represents several thousand brokers and agents and is comprised of 31 affiliated local associations, announced a special meeting slated for Oct. 12 to consider a...
California Brokers, Agents React to State Fund New Deal
Sep 5 2012 // Reaction to a decision by State Compensation Insurance Fund to restructure its broker distribution model has ranged from guardedly optimistic to visceral the day following the announcment. Under the new deal announced on...
Agents, Brokers to Deal with State Fund Wholesalers
Sep 5 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will now require most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. An estimated 3,500 agents and brokers will be...
Former N.Y. Insurance Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $648K
Sep 5 2012 // New York authorities announced last week that a Long Island, N.Y., man has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly stealing more than $648,000 in premiums from a client and spending the money on...
Additional Charges Filed Against Former Oklahoma Insurance Agent
Sep 5 2012 // A former insurance agent in Creek County has been charged with four additional felonies after an investigation by the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID). Donna Parrick, of Depew, is charged with two counts of Exploitation...
California State Fund Restructures Broker Distribution
Sep 4 2012 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has changed its broker distribution model, requiring most of the roughly 5,000 brokers and agents the entity deals with to go through one of two wholesalers. The change,...
AmWINS Buys Wisconsin School Insurance Broker, Smic
Sep 4 2012 // Insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Special Markets Insurance Consultants, Inc. Smic is headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin with a sales office in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1985 by Nora Stransky, Smic...
Leavitt Group Agencies Combine, Re-brand
Aug 31 2012 // The Leavitt Group is combining the capabilities of six of their top California agencies along with their Las Vegas, Salt Lake, and Atlanta offices. These agencies will re-brand collectively as the Leavitt Group. The...
Lockton Enters Strategic Relationship with Ecuador Broker Security Re
Aug 31 2012 // Privately-owned global insurance broker Lockton announced that it “plans to strengthen its position in Latin America by entering into a joint venture with facultative reinsurance broker, Security Re, in...
All Risks, General Star Enhance Insurance Agents E&O Program
Aug 30 2012 // All Risks, Ltd. has enhanced its exclusive insurance agents errors & omissions program through General Star Management Co. Specialized coverage now features additional insolvency options, revised rates, no minimum...
Jones Annual Report Details Consumer Protection
Aug 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has issued California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ annual report for 2011 that details CDI’s progress on its “ambitious consumer and business protection...
3 Maine Agencies Included in State’s Annual ‘Best Places to Work’ List
Aug 28 2012 // Three independent insurance agencies in Maine have made the state’s seventh annual “Best Places to Work in Maine” list. The list is published by the Maine State Council of the Society for Human Resources...
Insurance Marketing Boot Camp Hosts Umberto Fedeli, Other Top Agents
Aug 28 2012 // Bend, OR, 08/28/12 – “We’re so excited to announce Umberto Fedeli will be among seven other ‘million dollar plus’ agency owners and producers at this year’s Insurance Marketing Boot...
Man Pleads Guilty in Missouri Insurance Agent’s Death
Aug 27 2012 // A 33-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in the 2007 death of a Missouri insurance agent. Cleo S. Hines pleaded guilty on Aug. 24 in St. Charles County Court to charges of robbery and second-degree murder. Hines and...
Stenzhorn, Bateman Join Lloyd’s Broker Howden’s Energy Division
Aug 24 2012 // UK-based Howden Insurance Brokers announced the second phase in the development of its Energy division with the appointments of Greg Stenzhorn and Richard Bateman. Stenzhorn will join Howden from Aon Benfield on the 15th...
New York Gov. Cuomo Vetoes State Agency Mailing Bill
Aug 23 2012 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill (S.6285-A/A.9034B) last Friday that would have banned state agencies from disseminating ads to the public for products that relate to the subject matter of the agency — such...
North Carolina Does Poor Job Tracking Workers’ Comp, Tax Scofflaws: Newspaper
Aug 22 2012 // North Carolina state agencies do a poor job communicating with each other to identify employers who are possibly breaking the law because they don’t have workers’ compensation insurance or fail to pay...
