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5 Issues Agents Should Watch in 2010
Jan 24 2010 // With insurance agents across the nation breathing a sigh of relief that 2009 is behind them, their focus has turned to the future: What will 2010 bring for the industry? These emergent issues are important not only for...
Worldwide Facilities Adds Assistant VP, Broker
Jan 22 2010 // Worldwide Facilities Inc. has added John Matthews as assistant vice president and Debra Kaser as broker in its Irvine, Calif., office. Mathews spent 17 years with International E&S. Prior to International, he was a...
Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers Names Janes VP
Jan 22 2010 // Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers LLC, an ISG Co., announced that Brian Janes has joined as vice president/property broker in the Burbank, Calif., office. His responsibilities include developing his book of property...
Six CAA Members Retain Best Practice Agencies Status for 2009
Jan 22 2010 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced six of its member agencies – Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts Insurance Agency, The Bridges Group Inc., Bryan Insurance Agency, Ed Berrong Insurance...
Bramlett Agency in Oklahoma Named Trusted Choice Agency of the Month
Jan 22 2010 // The Bramlett Agency, headquartered in Armdore, Okla., has been named the Trusted Choice Agency of the Month by Trusted Choice, the consumer branding program for independent insurance agents and brokers. The Bramlett Agency...
Insurance Agent, Researcher Charged in Illinois Murder-for-Hire Scheme
Jan 21 2010 // A suburban Chicago insurance agent and a former university research technologist are charged in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme aimed at killing a federal prosecutor and drug enforcement agent, officials said. Jack Mann,...
Lockton Acquires Equity Stake in South Korean Broker IMI
Jan 21 2010 // Lockton announced that it has obtained a “significant equity holding in South Korean insurance broker IMI, with options to purchase an increased shareholding.” IMI has also been renamed Lockton Companies...
Former Insurance Co. Employee Sentenced for Stealing from Carrier, Agents
Jan 21 2010 // Mark Camacho, 41, of Cedar Hill, Texas, a former employee of Americo Life Insurance Co., was sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $900,000 from the carrier and its agents’ commission accounts. Chief U.S....
Agents’ Disciplinary-Action Bill Signed into Law in New Jersey
Jan 19 2010 // Insurance agents will be required to notify the state if they have been disciplined by any non-governmental regulatory agency under a new law signed yesterday. The new law requires insurance producers licensed in New...
The Hanover Insurance: Focused on Niches, Says More Acquisitions Likely
Jan 14 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc.’s CEO Frederick H. Eppinger expects the western United States to be a key growth driver for the super-regional insurer in the next several years. Having just entered into a renewal...
Four Agents Plead Guilty to Insurance Fraud in New Jersey
Jan 14 2010 // Four former insurance agents have pleaded guilty for their role in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in premiums, New Jersey’s attorney general said. They are Thomas Hurd, of Bensalem, Pa., William...
Colemont Promotes Plourde to Broker
Jan 13 2010 // Colemont Insurance Brokers has promoted Tara Plourde to broker in the company’s Hartford, Connecticut office. She joined Colemont in 2008. Prior to Colemont, she was a commercial lines underwriter at a standard lines...
Florida Agents, Consumer Group Sound Alarm Over ‘Perilous’ Property Market
Jan 13 2010 // Insurance agents, a former insurance commissioner and a consumer advocate have sounded an alarm about the property insurance marketplace in Florida, a market that has seen four insurers get into financial trouble in the...
Keystone Insurers Group Adds 2 Agencies in Kentucky to Network
Jan 12 2010 // C.M. Moore Insurance of Bowling Green and Al Torstrick Insurance of Lexington will be the first franchises in Kentucky for Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), the nation’s sixth largest privately-held property/casualty...
Insurance Agents Fined for Not Having Written Security Plans
Jan 10 2010 // Recent headlines underscore the importance of agents having written security plans to protect the privacy of their clients’ personal information. Not only could a breach of clients’ personal information...
10 Ways to Make Insurance Agencies More Successful … Now
Jan 10 2010 // Insurance Agency Marketing Requires Careful Planning and Constant Implementation A revolution is underway that is having dramatic effects on insurance agencies, and the entire world. In the simplest terms, no one wants to...
People
Jan 10 2010 // Global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh appointed Philip Gawthorpe as Multinational Client Service Practice leader for the Midwest Zone. Gawthorpe, who has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, will...
Resolution Time
Jan 10 2010 // Happy New Year. It’s time to rewind, re-evaluate how you did in 2009, and make resolutions for 2010. I’m not big on making resolutions I know I won’t keep — like sticking to an overly ambitious...
From Zero to 200 in 5
Jan 10 2010 // The Rise of Kansas City-based Ascension Insurance Len Kline and his business partners, the private equity firms Parthenon Capital and Century Capital Management, had an ambitious goal when they created Kansas City,...
10 Ideas for Making Insurance Agencies More Successful … Now
Jan 10 2010 // If you’re waiting for a hard market, you’ll be out of business. The revolution is underway. In the simplest terms, no one wants to do anything they don’t want to do. If this sounds overly innocent, it...
