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New Paper Evaluates Current State of Insurance Regulation and Its Future
Aug 27 2009 // The current state of the financial services industries and the role of the federal government in regulating these industries, including the insurance sector, continues to be a matter of debate in Congress. To help assess...
Former Oklahoma Insurance Agent Arrested, Faces Felony Charges
Aug 27 2009 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced former insurance agent Richard Wallen has been arrested by the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit. Wallen has been charged with two felony...
Marsh Heads New Atlanta Office for Bliss & Glennon Insurance Brokers
Aug 27 2009 // Jill Marsh has joined wholesale insurance broker Bliss and Glennon as a senior broker. She has opened an Atlanta office for the firm. Previously she was a broker at AmWins Brokerage of Georgia. Marsh brings over 20 years...
Beacon Hill Associates Opens South Central Regional Office in Texas
Aug 26 2009 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc. has opened a new regional office in Plano, Texas, and has added Brett Amick as assistant vice president. The company serves agents in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico. Beacon Hill...
Employers Direct Sheds Direct Calif. Workers’ Comp; Will Return with Brokers
Aug 26 2009 // Just a short time after announcing it was leaving the California workers’ compensation insurance market because it was not profitable, Employers Direct Insurance Co. is announcing it is back. The...
Florida, Georgia Insurer First Commercial to Be Liquidated
Aug 26 2009 // Miami-based First Commercial Insurance Co. and its subsidiary have been declared insolvent and ordered liquidated about six weeks after being placed under state control. All policies written by FCIC and its subsidiary,...
Former Oklahoma Agent Sold Insurance Without a License, AG Says
Aug 25 2009 // A former Vinita, Okla., insurance agent will pay more than $4,400 in restitution after pleading guilty to selling insurance without a license, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported. William Ronald Harlan,...
Insurance Journal Searches for the Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 25 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
States Give ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Aug 21 2009 // Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be drunk drivers, robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists. They got their producer licenses in...
Caribbean Agencies Create Partnership for Natural Disaster Management
Aug 21 2009 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing a partnership to facilitate capacity...
Insurance Journal Searches for the Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 20 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
New AIG CEO Decides to Keep, Not Sell, Investment Advisory Unit
Aug 19 2009 // Robert Benmosche, the newly appointed chief executive of AIG, has started to cut up the insurer’s restructuring plan, deciding it is better to hold on to an investment advisory unit that is part of the...
Pennsylvania Commissioner Meets with Agents’ Group
Aug 19 2009 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario met with yesterday with directors of the Insurance Agents & Brokers Service Group board of directors to discuss a number of key insurance issues in the Keystone State. Of...
Galveston Firefighters Receive Fireman’s Fund, Texas Agent Grant
Aug 19 2009 // The Galveston (Texas) Fire Department is still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Ike, and in addition to flood damage to various firehouses, several of the department’s portable radios were damaged or...
Love of Language Leads Insurance Agent to Hispanic Market
Aug 18 2009 // At first glance, Kathryn Soderberg would seem an unlikely candidate for an insurance agent whose expertise in marketing to Hispanic customers lands her gigs on radio talk shows and leading Hispanic market training sessions...
Consumer Opinions of Car Makers, Brokerages, Banks, Health Insurers Fall
Aug 18 2009 // Unsurprisingly, the industries whose reputations have been most badly hurt in the last 12 months are car manufacturers (down 31 points), banks (down 24 points), and investment and brokerage firms (down 27 points),...
South Dakota Insurance Agent Told to Stop Operating in North Dakota
Aug 18 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm has issued a cease and desist order to Floyd Sheridan, a Baltic, S.D., insurance agent who is alleged to have sold, solicited or negotiated insurance to a Barnes County, N.D....
Insurance Journal Searches for the Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 18 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
Wholesale Broker Gresham Promotes Curington, Thomas in Florida
Aug 17 2009 // Stockbridge, Georgia-based wholesale insurance broker, Gresham & Associates, has promoted Marianne Curington and Kittie Thomas to be associate brokers. Curington and Thomas have served 11 and 7 years respectively in...
FERMA Supports RIMS Position on Brokers Contingent Commissions
Aug 17 2009 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has issued a bulletin expressing concerns over a new ruling in the US state of Illinois that allows brokers to resume taking contingent commissions. The...
