Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
National Flood Insurance Program Gets 5 Day Extension
Mar 6 2009 // The U.S. Senate passed a five-day extension to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by voice vote this afternoon after lawmakers delayed action Thursday night on the federal omnibus bill which would have extended...
AmWINS Acquires 3 Medical Stop Loss Insurance Wholesale Brokers
Mar 5 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based insurance wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired three medical stop loss wholesalers in three separate regions of the country. The firms acquired are American Stop Loss...
Apollo Agencies Names Greenlee Director of Sales
Mar 5 2009 // Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based Apollo Agencies Inc., Kinecta Federal Credit Union’s wholly owned property and casualty subsidiary, announced that John Greenlee has joined the organization as director of...
National Flood Insurance Program Set to Expire Tomorrow
Mar 5 2009 // The U.S. Senate has yet to approve a measure extending the nation’s flood insurance program, which expires tomorrow. While the U.S. House of Representatives passed an extension to the National Flood Insurance Program...
National City Banks Sells 2 Florida Insurance Agencies
Mar 4 2009 // An independent holding company owned by an insurance industry veteran has purchased Harbor Insurance Agency and Florida Consolidated Agency, both former wholly owned subsidiaries of National City Bank. The new owner, Tom...
Griffin Joins Wholesale Broker Gresham in Florida Office
Mar 3 2009 // Stockbridge, Georgia-based wholesale insurance broker Gresham & Associates has welcomed a new property/ casualty broker, Scott Griffin, to its Orlando, Florida branch. Griffin, a University of Georgia-Risk Management...
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...
