Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
‘Sometimes You Just Have to Ask’
Mar 9 2009 // “You don’t have to be Hispanic to join the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.” George Saenz Sr., founder of Cielo Vista Insurance Agency in El Paso, Texas, made that comment when Insurance Journal spoke to him...
Recession Gives Agents New Opportunity with Car Lovers
Mar 9 2009 // Agents can offer collector-vehicle coverage to customers as a money-saving opportunity that also will provide broader coverage more tailored to a collector’s needs. Last month, firefighters saved a 1964 Ford Mustang...
Finding a Niche
Mar 9 2009 // A Young Company With a Nontraditional Management Style, Heffernan Insurance Brokers Has Shown How an Agency Can Be Young and Successful at the Same Time Top 100 Agency Profile RANKING: No. 11 Agency Name: Heffernan...
One Size Does Not Fit All
Mar 9 2009 // Agents Beware of Coverage Differences in Personal Umbrella Policies A condominium board is involved in a lawsuit that results in a board member being sued. A neighbor’s child is playing in the backyard, falls off a...
Wholesale Insurance Broker USG Promotes Jones in Michigan Office
Mar 6 2009 // USG Insurance Services, Inc, a national wholesale broker of commercial insurance headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has promoted Andy Jones to senior underwriter at its Michigan branch. Jones was a manager for four years with...
Florida Charges People’s Trust MGA Using Unlicensed Insurance Agents
Mar 6 2009 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has moved to prevent People’s Trust Insurance’s Managing General Agent from using unlicensed agents to sell its homeowners insurance. The action follows an...
National Flood Insurance Expected to Get 5 Day Extension Today
Mar 6 2009 // The U.S. Senate delayed action last night on a federal omnibus bill that provides funding to most of the federal government, including the nation’s federal flood insurance program that expires today. However,...
Former Insurance Brokers Sentenced in Louisiana Bribery Scheme
Mar 6 2009 // Two major figures, both former insurance brokers, in a wide ranging investigation into corruption at the Orleans Parish School Board have been sentenced in federal court by U. S. District Judge Martin L. C. Feldman,...
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...
