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U.S. Wholesale Broker AmWINS Completes Acquisition of London’s THB
Jan 26 2012 // U.S. insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group, Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of THB Group plc of London. THB, an independent insurance and reinsurance broker and risk management business, serves clients...
California Legislator: Feds Will Step Up Involvement in Insurance Industry
Jan 25 2012 // “Listen to me now, understand me later.” State Sen. Juan Vargas, D-San Diego, gave a well-received Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, chest heaving and heavy on the former California governor’s thick...
Former North Dakota Insurance Agent Sent to Prison
Jan 25 2012 // A former Fargo insurance agent has been sentenced to three years in prison and five years on supervised probation for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from three women. Fifty-seven-year-old Jeffrey Neppl was...
Networked in California Joins LexisNexis Exchange
Jan 24 2012 // Grass Valley, Calif.-based Networked Insurance Agents has signed on with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Insurance Exchange, a significant step for LexisNexis into the West, the collaborative insurance placement platform...
Agents Creating At-Home Insurance Jobs for Disabled Veterans
Jan 23 2012 // For insurance agents Gary Trippe and Jim Pender, the idea for DVIC, or Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers, which aims to provide disabled veterans with employment in insurance, evolved in part from their own personal...
Web Exchange
Jan 23 2012 // IJ Video Highlights As the Market Turns, What Is Broker’s Role? Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv The soft market is turning, perhaps not dramatically but it is turning, says Jerry Sullivan, chairman, The Sullivan...
People
Jan 23 2012 // Woodbury, N.Y.-based Sterling & Sterling appointed Leslie Nylund as president of the insurance brokerage. Nylund will be responsible for the firm’s operations, including sales, employee benefits, client services...
Western Insurance Agents Roundtable: In Uncertain Economy, Change Is Certain
Jan 23 2012 // The economy, the promised-land of a hard insurance market and the need to master technologies dominated discussion at the first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable in Irvine, Calif. The daylong event was attended by 23...
Insurance Marketing New Basics: Go Mobile
Jan 23 2012 // Be careful if you ask Michael Jans, president of Bend, Ore.-based Agency Revolution, about marketing. He may throw the Yellow Pages at you. Jans isn’t a temperamental thug, he’s just passionate about talking...
Agents to Build Insurance Careers for Disabled Vets
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
P/C Insurers Added No Jobs, Agencies Added 1500, Latest Data Show
Jan 23 2012 // Earlier this month, the U.S. Labor Department published its November 2011 data on detailed insurance industry employment figures. These latest figures show that in November, employment at insurance carriers rose overall,...
Insurance Exchanges Can Provide More than Just Market Access
Jan 23 2012 // A pair of industry experts espoused the benefits of insurance exchanges and small agencies today and in the future during the Western Insurance Agents Association first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable on Nov....
Allstate Revises Agent Compensation Plan
Jan 23 2012 // Allstate’s captive agents have been spared part of a planned cut in their commissions as the insurer has revised its compensation strategy. The insurer said it would cut its base commission to its agents to 9 percent...
People
Jan 23 2012 // Swantner & Gordon Insurance Agency has added Thomas Peel in the marketing department of the firm’s Houston office. As a marketing representative, Peel will be responsible for analyzing and placing risk with...
Agents to Build Insurance Careers for Disabled Vets
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance agents James R. Pender and Gary V. Trippe, principals with Ft. Myers, Florida-based BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co., have experienced disability in their own families. That has been part of their motivation for...
N.J. Court Rules for Allstate in Agency Lawsuits
Jan 23 2012 // Allstate said the Superior Court of New Jersey has entered judgment in favor of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, a unit of Allstate Insurance Company, and dismissed claims in the franchise lawsuits filed against...
The Importance of Education in Today’s Insurance Market
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance is the lifeblood of our capitalist society; without it commerce cannot function. A vibrant insurance industry requires skilled and trained knowledgeable workers who can understand the broad aspects of risk in a...
Agents Outline Real-Time Tech Priorities for Insurance Carriers
Jan 23 2012 // Insurance carriers’ use of real-time tools is becoming a differentiator when independent agents choose where to place business, according to a new survey. Independent agents and brokers place the highest priority on...
How Retail, Wholesale Distribution Chains Are Changing to Justify Value, Purpose
Jan 23 2012 // Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge — and opportunity — of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove,...
Mission Accomplished: Post-Military Job with a Purpose
Jan 19 2012 // One of the things Shane Crockett loved about being in the military was the sense of purpose he felt on the job every day, something he said was missing from his first post-military job as an engineer. So like the veteran...
