Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Vanliner Expands Captive Program to North American Moving Agents
Aug 16 2012 // Vanliner Insurance Co., an insurer in the moving and storage industry, has expanded the Forum Captive Insurance Program to moving agents affiliated with North American Van Lines, a moving and storage company with more than...
Illinois Regulators: Agent Conducting Business on Revoked License
Aug 16 2012 // The Illinois Department of Insurance is alerting consumers that David Griffith Morrow of Morrow Insurance of Decatur is continuing to act as an insurance producer although his license was revoked effective June 8,...
General Star Expands Admitted Real Estate Product to California Agents
Aug 15 2012 // General Star Management Co. has made its admitted professional liability coverage for real estate agents available in California. Underwritten by General Star’s Professional E&O Division, the new offering is...
eAgent Announces Dr. William Hold as Speaker and National Alliance as Gold Sponsor
Aug 15 2012 // Orlando, FL, 08/15/12 – Astonish, the leader in digital marketing for local insurance agencies, is very pleased to announce The National Alliance, www.TheNationalAlliance.com, as a Gold Sponsor at the annual eAgent...
The Most Important Thing You Do for Your Marketing Efforts in the Next 3 Months
Aug 14 2012 // MyNewMarkets.com is changing the way agents find products listed by markets on the site. We’re making the move over to tags instead of having companies choose specific categories. If you’ve not yet listed your...
Arkansas, California Teen Golfers Are Trusted Choice National Champs
Aug 14 2012 // Trusted Choice announced that Summer Roachell of Conway, Ark. and Austin Smotherman of Loomis, Calif., won the girls and boys divisions, respectively, at the recent 44nd Annual Trusted Choice Big “I” National...
Sullivan Brokers Enhances Casualty Practice with Addition of Vicki Snow
Aug 14 2012 // Los Angeles, CA, 08/14/12 – Sullivan Brokers Wholesale Insurance Solutions is pleased to announce that Vicki Snow has joined the firm’s Casualty Practice Group in the position of Assistant Vice...
N.Y.-Based Broker Sterling & Sterling, Hyde Agency Form Joint Venture
Aug 10 2012 // Sterling & Sterling Inc. an insurance broker based in Woodbury, N.Y., and The Hyde Agency, a specialty surety bond broker in New York City, are forming a joint venture under the name SterlingHyde Group. This new...
Washington Explores Insurance, Other Protection for Futures Customers
Aug 10 2012 // U.S. regulators and futures industry players said on Thursday that there is no perfect solution to safeguard customer money in the wake of two major brokerage scandals, but added that policymakers should move quickly on...
New York Enacts Law Allowing Gifts Worth Up to $25 From Producers
Aug 9 2012 // New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill this month that allows property/casualty insurers, brokers and agents to give gifts worth up to $25 to insureds or prospective clients during the insurance sales process. The...
Integro Buys UK Media Insurance Broker
Aug 9 2012 // New York-based Integro Insurance Brokers has acquired Allan Chapman & James Insurance Brokers Limited of Colchester, a United Kingdom insurance broker. Established in 1988, Allan Chapman & James specializes in...
CRC|Crump Adds Wright in Dallas as Associate Broker
Aug 8 2012 // CRC|Crump announced that Delia Wright has joined its Dallas office as a property/casualty associate broker. Wright’s responsibilities will include underwriting MGA business and brokering for general commercial...
Missouri Man Convicted of Killing Insurance Agent
Aug 8 2012 // A St. Charles, Mo., man has been convicted of killing his auto insurance agent during a robbery prompted by a big loss at a casino. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports a jury deliberated less than three hours before...
Montana Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing Premiums
Aug 6 2012 // An insurance agent from Butte, Mont., who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $7,200 of his client’s premiums has been given a three-year deferred sentence and ordered to pay restitution. State Insurance...
How Niche Marketing Worked
Aug 6 2012 // Small business is alive and well, despite the gloomy, reports we read about the weak national economy. To be more specific, small businesses started by ethnic minorities is booming. The niche where we have first-hand...
Amerisure Turns 100
Aug 6 2012 // Tightened Focus, Leaner Agency Force Leads Insurer into its Next Century Evaluate, evolve, sharpen focus, create value. That’s how a group of executives at one Midwest-based property/casualty insurance company...
Business Moves – East
Aug 6 2012 // USI, Kelly Insurance USI Insurance Services, an insurance brokerage and financial service firm in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., completed its acquisition of New York-based Kelly Insurance Brokerage Inc. Terms of the transaction...
Do Insurance Brokers Have an Obligation to Offer the Cheapest Coverage Available?
Aug 6 2012 // The question of whether insurance brokers are required to obtain the lowest cost insurance that meets the insured’s needs was answered recently by the Missouri Supreme Court in Emerson Electric Co. v. Marsh &...
From Concept to Practice: Insurance Trust Account Management
Aug 6 2012 // The concept of trust account (TA) management has no meaning to many professionals, or they have no uniform understanding of it. There are no text books or college classes on insurance TA management, and insurance-based...
North Carolina Insurance Reforms Fall Short
Aug 6 2012 // North Carolina lawmakers approved a bill with some changes to the property insurance system but, as one industry expert said, in so doing lawmakers “just stuck more fingers in the dike.” Despite what critics...
