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Crump Adds Domitrovich as Assistant VP-Broker in Chicago
Jan 21 2011 // Crump Insurance Services has hired Matthew Domitrovich as assistant vice vresident, broker in its Chicago office. Domitrovich has more than four years’ experience placing casualty risks. He previously was with...
Main Street America Introduces Personal Auto, Property Product to Grain Dealers Agents in Indiana
Jan 20 2011 // The Main Street America Group has introduced its Personal Auto MVP property and liability product via its network of nearly 100 Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Company independent insurance agents throughout Indiana. Super...
Florida Suspends Lake Worth Agent’s License
Jan 19 2011 // A Lake Worth, Fla. insurance agent’s license has been suspended after he allegedly misappropriated automobile insurance premiums and issued bogus insurance identification cards to consumers. Hector Marcano, owner of...
Agent Group Sounds Alarm Over Federal Insurance Study
Jan 19 2011 // Congress should refuse to fund a study of insurance regulation that the new Federal Insurance Office is supposed to conduct, an insurance agents’ trade group said. The National Association of Professional Insurance...
Insurers Fined More Than $580,000 in Washington
Jan 19 2011 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler fined insurers more than $580,000 in 2010 for violations including illegal telephone solicitation and overcharging customers. Kreidler also revoked the licenses of more than...
Agents Notified of TWIA, Texas Fair Plan Information Requests
Jan 19 2011 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and Texas FAIR Plan Association (TFPA) recently notified insurance agents that the organizations have received a formal request to inspect or copy some of their files. The...
Lloyd’s Ribeiro Beats a Path to the World’s Insurance Door
Jan 18 2011 // As director of international markets for Lloyd’s of London, Jose Ribeiro has a lot of responsibilities. He took a brief time out, as he prepared for a trip to China, to tell the Insurance Journal a little bit about...
Hub Acquires Assets of Canadian Broker Grande Prairie
Jan 11 2011 // Hub Acquires Assets of Canadian Broker Phoenix Grande Prairie Group Hub International Limited announced that it has acquired the assets of Phoenix Insurance Group Grande Prairie Inc., headquartered in the Canadian Province...
Combined Agents of America Expands with Agencies in Texas, Kansas
Jan 11 2011 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America, LLC (CAA) announced it has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas. With the addition of the two new members of the group — Elliott...
Employers With Foreign Labor Face Increased Liability
Jan 10 2011 // Insurance Considerations for Agents Insuring Agricultural Employers Every state has been impacted by Arizona’s immigration law, as there is now a cry for immigration reform. Employers who hire a questionable...
People
Jan 10 2011 // Pennsylvania-based wholesaler USG Insurance Services has named Jason Holloman as property broker specializing in large commercial and CAT-exposed risks. Holloman most recently served as a wholesale property broker with...
New York Agents Plan Court Appeal over Pay-Disclosure Rules
Jan 10 2011 // Two New York agents’ groups said they have taken the first steps to appeal a decision by a state court judge allowing state insurance regulators to force brokers to reveal their commissions. The Independent Insurance...
Sidelining Agents
Jan 10 2011 // In their zeal to control health care costs, federal policymakers may be pushing health insurance agents and brokers to the sidelines and potentially out of business. If this happens, they will be shortchanging the...
2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
Broker Wins Appeal Against CRC Insurance Services
Jan 10 2011 // The California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, has reversed a lower court’s $4.2 million judgment against former CRC Insurance Services broker Constance Callan. According to court documents in Constance...
Calif. Homeowners Underinsurance Regulations May Require Agent Training
Jan 10 2011 // California’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved regulations designed to combat underinsurance and may require insurance agents and brokers to complete additional training. The regulations will take...
People
Jan 10 2011 // Golden Eagle Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Corp. regional company, appointed Spencer J. Donkin president and CEO. Donkin joins Golden Eagle Insurance from Liberty Mutual Agency Corp.’s Regional Companies Group,...
Brokers, Reinsurer to Expand Insurance for Oil Drilling
Jan 10 2011 // The world’s top three insurance brokers have joined reinsurer Munich Re to promote a major expansion in risk coverage for deepwater drilling in the wake of BP’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill last April. Their...
Empire of Insurance
Jan 10 2011 // HUB International Is Back In the Acquisitions Race; To Go Public Within 2 Years Top 100 Agency Profile IJ Top 100 Rank: 2 Agency Name: HUB International Limited Main Office: Chicago Year Founded: 1998 No. of employees:...
Reinsurance Broker Holborn Adds Frank, Knutzen in Midwest
Jan 10 2011 // Holborn Corp., an independent provider of reinsurance brokerage services headquartered in New York, announced that Thomas Frank and Jon Knutzen have joined the firm as senior vice presidents in the company’s...
