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Surplus Lines Brokers Report No Change in Capacity; Increase in Submissions
May 28 2009 // Catastrophic events, the economy and changes in reinsurance capacity have the greatest impact on the availability and pricing of specialty lines coverage in 2009, according to professionals in the surplus lines...
Insurance Broker Sues AIG Over Business Practice
May 27 2009 // A California insurance broker is suing American International Group, accusing the nation’s largest insurance and financial corporation of engaging in unfair business practices. Insurance broker Linda Harris,...
Combined Agents Names Management Committee; Adds New Agency
May 27 2009 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) elected its 2009 management committee and added its 41st member agency. The new 2009 management committee includes: • Chairman of the Board – Bill Bridges, executive vice...
North Carolina Agent Charged with Murder Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
May 27 2009 // Former North Carolina insurance agent Michael A. Howell has pleaded guilty to 25 counts of embezzlement and is expected to plead guilty to the murder of the state examiner who audited his agency about one year ago. Howell,...
Top 100 Agencies: Deadline to Submit, June 1
May 27 2009 // Insurance Journal is on the search for the nation’s leading privately-held property casualty independent agencies and brokerages for its annual Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Insurance Agencies report. Now,...
Heffernan Opens Wrap Up Insurance Solutions in Missouri
May 26 2009 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has appointed Brian Billhartz, Larry Jackson and Cindie Allscheid to establish a new office in Chesterfield, Mo. – Wrap Up Insurance Solutions. Wrap Up Insurance Solutions is a full...
Combined Agents Elects Management Committee and Adds New Member
May 26 2009 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it has elected a new management committee for 2009. In addition, the group has added its 41st member agency – Mr. Insurance Agency Inc. of San...
Top 100 Profile: A Quiet Giant in The Leavitt Group
May 26 2009 // As Insurance Journal prepares for another Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agency List, to be published in our Aug. 3, 2009, magazine, the editors wanted to highlight a few of the current Top 100 agencies. Throughout...
National Insurance Producer Licensing Bill Reintroduced in Congress
May 22 2009 // Federal legislation designed to streamline licensing for insurance agents and brokers operating in multiple states has been reintroduced in Congress. The legislation (HR 2554), the National Association of Registered Agents...
Oklahoma’s Bramlett Receives Big ‘I’ Award for Service to Other Agents
May 22 2009 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) earlier this month awarded the 2008 Sidney O. Smith Award to Bobby Bramlett, president and CEO of the Bramlett Agency in Ardmore, Okla....
2 Kentucky Agents Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Fraud
May 22 2009 // Two eastern Kentucky insurance agents and an agency employee have been ordered to pay fines, serve probationary sentences and perform public service work on their guilty pleas in a fraud case. The sentences were given to...
Personality, Good Time Management Are Key to Claims Success
May 22 2009 // With its acquisition in early 2009 of the international businesses of GAB Robins (excluding its UK operations) and the U.S. forensic engineering firm, EFI Global, Cunningham Lindsey became the second largest property...
Garinger, Kohler Join Retail Insurance Broker Signature Select
May 21 2009 // Signature Select LLC, a retail insurance broker subsidiary of The IMA Financial Group Inc., hired Deena Garinger as account manager/account executive for its Denver employee benefits practice, and Howard Kohler as a Denver...
Young Insurance Agents’ Service Project to Kick Off Texas Conference
May 20 2009 // A first-ever Young Agents Community Service Project, which benefits St. Peter – St. Joseph Children’s Home, kicks off the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) 112th Annual Conference & Trade Show...
Missouri Insurance Agents Honored With Trusted Choice Award
May 20 2009 // Trusted Choice has awarded the inaugural Dan Fulwider Award for Community Involvement to Kevin and Kathy Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance Agency in Troy, Mo., the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America...
MyNewMarkets.com Announces 5th & 6th Exchange Events
May 20 2009 // San Diego – (May 20, 2009) – Acquiring new customers, reducing costs, finding new ways to do business, are all increasingly important in today’s economy and are the reason for the success of the Exchange...
Former New Hampshire Insurance Agent Sentenced to Prison
May 20 2009 // A New Hampshire state employee has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and pay back more than $164,000 to clients she defrauded in her previous job as an insurance agent. Raye Ellen Douville of Bedford, who had...
Economy Forcing Changes in Carrier Investments
May 19 2009 // The current economic environment has produced several influences that in combination are negatively affecting, or at least stressing, property casualty insurance carriers in unique ways, according to one experienced...
American Collectors Insurance Offers Collector-Vehicle Coverage in Alaska
May 19 2009 // American Collectors Insurance, a provider of specialty insurance for collector vehicles and collectibles, has expanded to offer collector-vehicle insurance coverage in Alaska. The coverage applies to a range of collector...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Nourse Insurance Brokers
May 19 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Nourse Insurance Brokers Inc. in Walnut Creek, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1935, Nourse Insurance Brokers Inc. is a retail insurance broker...
