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ASPN Forms Marketing Alliance with ISU Network
Feb 4 2010 // Chicago-based ASPN, the Agency Specialty Products Network Insurance Agency LLC, formed a new alliance with San Francisco-based ISU International and the ISU Network, one of the nation’s largest group of independently...
Louisiana Agent Accused of Insurance and Bank Fraud
Feb 3 2010 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance says a Baton Rouge agent has been served with two cease and desist orders, and two fine notices, for alleged insurance fraud, bank fraud, issuing worthless checks, filing false public...
Last Chance: Young Insurance Agents Survey
Feb 3 2010 // Young insurance agents, 40-and-younger, what are you thinking? Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun. It’s your...
Agents Honor Texas House Speaker with Leadership Award
Feb 3 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) on Feb. 2 presented its 2010 Independent Leadership Award to Joe Straus III, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. Speaker Straus was elected to the House of...
Agents’ Group: On a Cost per Home Value Basis, Texas Rates Are Down
Feb 2 2010 // Texas insurance agents — want to show your customers that the common perception that homeowners rates in Texas always go up but never come down is false? Look to your agency management system, say educators from the...
IBA West Pacific Northwest Chapter Joins Big ‘I’ Washington
Feb 1 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West) has disbanded its Pacific Northwest Chapter and joined forces with the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Washington (Big “I” Washington). According...
Insurance Agents 40-and-Younger: What Are YOU Thinking? Exclusive Young Agents Survey
Feb 1 2010 // Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun. Who are you? What do you really think about your career? About your industry?...
Dallas Agency, Agent Partner to Form Lipscomb & Cathey
Feb 1 2010 // Dallas-based Lipscomb Insurance Group has partnered with Ronnie Cathey to form Lipscomb & Cathey. Cathey’s expertise includes real estate and marine insurance. Lipscomb is a full service agency offering...
New York-based Equity Firm Invests $20M in Michigan Brokerage
Jan 29 2010 // Greenhill Capital Partners LLC announced it has invested $20 million in Acrisure LLC, a Midwest insurance brokerage company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich. Formed in 2005, Acrisure has acquired 17 insurance agencies...
Texas Agent and Former Windstorm Association Chair Dies at 81
Jan 29 2010 // Corpus Christi independent insurance agent and former Texas Windstorm Insurance Association chairman, Lloyd L. Grove Jr., passed away Jan. 24 at the age of 81. Throughout his 50-year career Grove was actively involved in...
Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West Names Officers, Award Winner
Jan 29 2010 // Insurance Brokers and Agents of the West (IBA West), awarded the Ramsden/Sullivan Memorial Award to Robert B. Suhr and slated its officers and directors for 2010 at its annual meeting. Suhr is a Santa Clara, Calif.,...
2010 Will Challenge Calif. Insurance Agents, But Bright Spots Ahead
Jan 29 2010 // In 2009, independent insurance agents and brokers faced a “perfect storm” with the economic downturn, premiums at a fraction of what they used to be, and unemployment and home foreclosure rates up. But 2010 may...
Icelandic Insurer Exista HF Raided by Anti-fraud Agents
Jan 28 2010 // Law enforcement agents from Britain and Iceland searched the premises of Icelandic insurer Exista HF on Tuesday in a probe related to the trading of shares in other companies. The company said Tuesday its offices in...
Kansas City Agent Convicted of Fraud Sentenced to 15 Years in Jail
Jan 28 2010 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID) reported that a former Kansas City-area insurance agent has been convicted on federal charges of insurance and mortgage fraud, and handed a 15-year jail term. Investigators from the...
Hales Reports Brokerage M&As Down 40% in 2009; Expects Better 2010
Jan 28 2010 // A prolonged soft market coupled with the worst economic period since the Great Depression as well as uncertainty related to national health care reform, caused insurance brokerage buyers and sellers to struggle with how to...
U.S. Judge Dismisses Claims Against Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s
Jan 27 2010 // In a victory for ratings agencies, a U.S. judge Tuesday dismissed claims against Moody’s Corp. and McGraw-Hill’s Standard & Poor’s in litigation over nearly $100 billion of Lehman Brothers Holdings...
Insurance Agents 40-and-Younger: What Are YOU Thinking? Exclusive Young Agents Survey
Jan 27 2010 // Young property/casualty insurance agents and brokers across the U.S. are being called upon to answer some questions … and have some fun. Who are you? What do you really think about your career? About your industry?...
docSTAR Document Management Expands Insurance Software Line
Jan 26 2010 // Renewal marketing now delivered through streamlined submission packages. Schenectady, NY – January 26, 2010 – docSTAR, the leading provider of insurance document management software, has released a brand new...
Keystone Insurers Adds 4 More Kentucky Agencies
Jan 26 2010 // Limestone Insurance, Lexington Insurance Agency, Inc., Durrett Insurance and Insuramax have joined Keystone Insurers Group (KIG), bringing KIG’s number of agencies in Kentucky to six. Keystone is the nation’s...
Illinois Fines Insurance Agent, Agency $100K and Revokes Licenses
Jan 26 2010 // The Illinois Department of Insurance has revoked the licenses to sell insurance of Daniel Martin Deitz of Bloomingdale and his Schaumburg-based agency Danny Martin CLU and Associates (collectively “Martin”) and...
