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Reinsurance Broker Guy Carpenter to Acquire Collins
Mar 2 2009 // Guy Carpenter Co., a leading risk and reinsurance specialist, has agreed to acquire John B. Collins Associates, Inc., a privately-held company and the seventh largest reinsurance intermediary in the world. Guy Carpenter...
Schrayer Named President of Associated Agencies
Feb 27 2009 // Associated Agencies Inc. named Max “Skip” Schrayer as president of Associated Agencies Inc. Schrayer also serves as president of Auto and Home Insurance Agency. As president of these two companies, he oversees...
Invensure Insurance Brokers Adds Three to Staff
Feb 27 2009 // Invensure Insurance Brokers of Irvine, Calif., has added Trent T. Julian, David M. Peters and David R. Bloodgood to its professional staff. Julian joins as vice president of its Dealer Protection Division. His...
New Jersey Company Settles Massachusetts Lawsuit for $239K
Feb 26 2009 // A New Jersey insurance company agreed Tuesday to pay just over $239,000 to settle allegations that it offered improper incentives to a Boston-based brokerage firm. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s...
CSE Insurance Honors Three with Lifetime Achievement Awards
Feb 25 2009 // CSE Insurance Group, a provider of insurance for civil service employees, has honored three of its longest-tenured agents with lifetime achievement awards. Loyd Adams of Vanderlip and Adams Insurance Services in Folsom,...
Texas Agent Named National ACSR
Feb 25 2009 // Kimberly J. Muesse of Lockton Companies Inc. in Houston, Texas, has been named the ACSR of the Year by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”). Feb. 25 is the annual ACSR...
Westland Insurance Brokerage Owner’s License Suspended
Feb 25 2009 // The California Department of Insurance is prohibiting James Henry Sim of Westland Insurance Brokers of San Diego from selling insurance and participating in conducting business through any production agency without the...
Henricks Joins AmWINS Brokerage in Florida
Feb 23 2009 // Lynn Henricks has joined wholesaler AmWINS Brokerage of Florida as vice president. Formerly of Beecher Carlson, Henricks has 20 years of insurance industry experience and will focus on property and casualty brokerage at...
AmWINS Insurance Brokerage Makes Two California Appointments
Feb 23 2009 // Chris Pope has joined AmWINS Insurance Brokerage of California’s Santa Ana office as vice president and casualty broker. He has experience in the wholesale brokerage industry, with 20 years of developing expertise in...
Operational Efficiency Should Be Priority No. 3 for Agency Managers
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in the current hard economy and soft market requires agents to set priorities. In the Jan. 28, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal, Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and...
People
Feb 22 2009 // Andrew Fotopulos has joined Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island as senior vice president. Fotopulos will lead the brokerage’s financial institutional practice. He will...
New York Proposes Compensation Disclosure Rules for Agents
Feb 22 2009 // Despite earning praise from major insurance brokerages, a proposed new regimen of compensation disclosure rules for insurance producers has New York agents on edge. The draft regulations issued earlier this month include...
Declarations
Feb 22 2009 // Siren Song “The fire department is going to be mad at me.” —A sang phrase recorded by Amanda Gessner, 19, in a Drexel Hill, Pa. convenience store surveillance camera – which led to her arrest for arson...
Demographic Shift Offers Opportunity for Agents
Feb 22 2009 // Minorities Destined to Become Majority by Mid-Century Before the 21st century reaches the half-way mark, more than 50 percent of the population of the United States will be represented by a vast cultural mix of people...
Certificates of Insurance and Agency Liability: What Agents Should Know
Feb 22 2009 // A common practice by insurance carriers is to inform their agents that they should not send the company copies of certificates of insurance when they are issued. This is most likely the result of mail-flow issues with the...
Operational Efficiency Should Be Priority No. 3 for Agency Managers
Feb 22 2009 // Managing an independent insurance agency in the current hard economy and soft market requires agents to set priorities. In the Jan. 28, 2009, issue of Insurance Journal, Juan Andrade, executive vice-president for sales and...
People
Feb 22 2009 // Juan Andrade and Jonathan Bennett have been named as interim co-leads of the Property and Casualty Operations of The Hartford. Their appointment to those interim positions follows the departure of Neil Wolin, president and...
Insureds Must Know What’s In Their Flood Policies
Feb 22 2009 // In this litigious day and age, lawsuits alleging breach of the insurance policies, bad faith, unfair claims handling, unfair settlement practices or negligence by an insurance agent are so common that they are not...
Now Playing in Florida: A Scary Surplus Lines Scenario
Feb 22 2009 // Court Rulings Strike Fear That Surplus Lines Could Lose Freedom Have you ever seen anything like this in Florida? Never. I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere in the country. If it were a horror flick it might...
Attitude Adjustment
Feb 22 2009 // The tiff between State Farm Florida and the Office of Insurance Regulation that has culminated in the insurer’s withdrawal from the state’s property market is disturbing. It’s not disturbing because an...
