Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
How Are Insurance Agencies’ Customers Doing?
May 21 2012 // Construction is the No. 1 target market of independent insurance agencies. Before the recession, construction often constituted 20 percent to 40 percent of medium to large agencies’ books of business. Independent...
Court Sides with Mississippi Insurance Agent in Restaurant Case
May 21 2012 // The Mississippi Court of Appeals has upheld a ruling that the owners of a Bay St. Louis restaurant cannot collect more than $300,000 they claimed to be owed by a local insurance agent after their business washed away in...
E&O Insights: Why Workers’ Compensation Leads in E&O Claims
May 21 2012 // Every year, errors and omissions (E&O) claims arising out of the placement of workers’ compensation account for approximately 10 percent of all claims. Many of those workers’ comp claims are well in excess...
8 Things Independent Agents Can Learn from Sam Walton
May 21 2012 // Wal-Mart and independent agencies seemingly have little in common. Not so. There are many helpful ideas to cull from Mr. Walton’s amazing odyssey from one store to the largest retailer in the world — as revealed in...
Insurance Customers Say It’s a Relationship, Not a Commodity
May 21 2012 // There’s a small green reptile that seems to have become ubiquitous in all of our lives. It is constantly popping up on our television screens and speaking to us on the radio. Amazing as it may seem, a cartoon...
Survey: Agencies Seek Carrier Help to Expand Into New Niches
May 21 2012 // The challenges of today’s economy appear to be driving some independent agents into new niche insurance markets and product lines. Almost 60 percent of independent agents say they have begun to or plan to expand into...
Business Moves – Midwest
May 21 2012 // Neace Lukens, Matrix Benefits Neace Lukens has completed its acquisition of Matrix Benefits and Consulting Group, a Ft. Wayne, Ind.-based consulting firm. Matrix employees will report to the Neace Lukens Indianapolis...
North Dakota Agent Accused of Creating Fake Policy Applications
May 18 2012 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm announced he has served a cease and desist order against Tim Everett, a Grand Forks area insurance agent who is alleged to have created fictitious insurance policy applications...
Northern United Agents Alliance in N.H. Expands, Adding 2 New Agencies
May 18 2012 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA), an independent agency partnership based in New Hampshire, added two new agency members. The new members are: Maloney Associates Insurance in Hanover, N.H., and Bernier Insurance...
China Broker CNinsure Announces Changes to Board of Directors
May 18 2012 // CNinsure Inc. an independent insurance intermediary company operating in China, announced that the board of directors of the Company has appointed Yunxiang Tang as an independent director of the Board and Yongwei Ma has...
Denver Agencies Holding Major Disaster Drill
May 17 2012 // Nearly a dozen helicopters will fill the Colorado air as Denver-area emergency crews practice for a mass disaster. The exercise Wednesday is a major test of the National Disaster Medical System. It will involve more than...
How Young Insurance Agents Are Changing the Industry
May 17 2012 // There’s a change happening — a big change. And some say young independent insurance agents are the catalyst for that change. They may even be leading a revolution, of sorts, says one young agent leader. Jason D....
Aqua Underwriting Enters UK Commercial Market with High Net Worth Products
May 16 2012 // UK-based Aqua Underwriting announced the launch of a range of niche commercial combined products exclusively for brokers, building on its success with high net worth (HNW) products in the personal lines market. Aqua said...
Allstate Looks to Grow Florida Agency Force Again
May 15 2012 // Allstate’s Florida says it wants to add dozens of new agencies along with support staff jobs across the state, mostly in north and central Florida. Allstate said its 2012 agency strategy should create approximately...
Allstate Says It’s Ramping Up Agent Recruiting in Northeast
May 15 2012 // Allstate Insurance Company said on Tuesday that it is looking to appoint 140 new agency owners in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. Allstate said the move is part of its strategy to...
Fireman’s Fund Names Chanana to Senior Vice President
May 14 2012 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named Arun Chanana as senior vice president of distribution and agency management. Chanana will be based in Fireman’s Fund’s Liberty Corner office in New...
Evolution Underwriting in Deal with Beazley to Develop PI Business in UK
May 14 2012 // “Broker only” commercial underwriting specialist Evolution Underwriting announced that it has “entered into an exclusive underwriting and distribution partnership with the Beazley Group. Under the terms...
Agency Revolution Introduces MobiQuote™, the First Fully Integrated Mobile Optimized Website for Insurance Agencies
May 14 2012 // Bend, OR, 05/14/12 – “Consumers are on a virtual stampede to mobile devices and it’s killing lead generation for most insurance agents,” says Michael Jans, CEO of Agency Revolution, a success...
Vanliner Partners with Agents Association on Moving, Storage Agents Program
May 9 2012 // Vanliner Insurance Co., an insurer in the moving and storage industry, introduced a new affinity program developed for moving agents affiliated with the Allied Agents Association (AAA). The AAA program is Vanliner’s...
Submit Today: Top 100 Independent Insurance Agencies
May 9 2012 // Once again, Insurance Journal is on the search for leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Top Overall...
