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Ho-Ho-Ho Holiday Parties? Survey Says Homeowners Unaware of Risks
Dec 19 2008 // As millions of Americans host and attend holiday parties across the street or across the country, many are unaware of the risks they may be taking or of their own responsibilities to ensure their guests don’t hit the...
Retail, Wholesale Insurance Brokers Working on Electronic Transactions
Dec 19 2008 // Retail insurance agents and wholesale brokers are working on a plan to streamline how they do business together including improving electronic applications, electronic interfaces between the parties, and general agent Web...
Texas Agent Group Revising Essentials Training Program
Dec 18 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas is updating its training program designed to provide agents with a foundation in commercial and personal lines insurance. Beginning in January, IIAT is taking the best elements of...
The Alliance of Insurance Agents & Brokers Names D’Arelli Executive Director
Dec 17 2008 // The Alliance of Insurance Agents & Brokers announced that Michael D’Arelli has been named the association’s executive director and chief operating officer. D’Arelli has replaced David G. Nielsen, who...
Hamlin Joins Burns & Wilcox as Professional Lines Broker
Dec 15 2008 // Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox announces that Christian T. Hamlin has joined the company as a professional lines broker. He is based in the company’s Los Angeles office. Hamlin has more than 10...
California Earthquake Authority Selects Broker Team for Reinsurance Program
Dec 12 2008 // The California Earthquake Authority Governing Board today approved a team of reinsurance intermediaries to work on the CEA’s behalf to meet its reinsurance needs. AON Benfield will act as lead intermediary, with Guy...
HCC Insurance Holdings Acquires Arrowhead Public Risk, U.S. Risk Insurance Brokers’ Criminal Justice Division
Dec 12 2008 // Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.has acquired Arrowhead Public Risk, a division of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc., and also acquired the Criminal Justice division of U.S. Risk Insurance Brokers. The...
Agents and Wholesale Brokers Team Up for Food Bank
Dec 12 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Austin and the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. joined efforts recently to collect food and money for the Capital Area Food Bank in Austin, Texas. Food and money were collected at...
S.H. Smith & Company Launches Bus Program Website
Dec 11 2008 // Company enhances Customer Service through new Bus Website Hartford, CT – S.H. Smith & Company, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of its new website: http://www.shsmithbus.com. Developed to augment its...
Crump Adds Broker, Associate Broker in Dallas and Austin
Dec 11 2008 // Crump Insurance Services has added Babs Driscoll as broker in its Houston, Texas, office and Camille Wilkerson as associate broker in Austin. Driscoll works in the property and inland marine brokerage and underwrites...
Higher Response Rates for Insurance Agents
Dec 10 2008 // December 10, 2008 – Broomall, PA. Are you looking to grow your agency? Tired of dead end leads? A few years ago the only option for an insurance agent was to buy leads. Most agents will tell you that the leads...
AXIS Capital to Acquire Managing General Agent Dexta
Dec 10 2008 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations of Australian managing general agent Dexta Corporation Pty Ltd. from its shareholders, Ironbridge Capital,...
Study: Independent Agency System Stable and Growing
Dec 10 2008 // The number of independent agencies has stabilized — that’s one of the key findings of the 2008 Agency Universe Study. Future One, a collaboration of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America...
Gallagher & Co. Acquires Treiber Agencies
Dec 10 2008 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. recently announced the acquisitions of The Treiber Group LLC and Treiber Agency Group LLC, both located in Garden City, N.Y. Terms of the transactions were not...
Apex Global Partners Acquires Benefit Broker in Dallas
Dec 8 2008 // Apex Global Partners (AGP) announced the acquisition of Brooks Bitter and Associates, a privately owned employee benefits brokers in Dallas. Brooks Bittner and Associates provides benefit department outsourcing, health and...
Hundreds Expected at Southern California Networking Event
Dec 8 2008 // SAN DIEGO – (December 8, 2008) – Attracting and retaining new customers is expensive – five times more expensive than keeping an existing customer – according to a report issued by Ohio State...
Ubhi Joins Lockton Insurance Brokers in San Francisco
Dec 5 2008 // Lockton Companies has appointed Harpreet Ubhi account executive for the company’s Financial Services Practice. He will be based in the company’s San Francisco office. Ubhi has worked in the risk...
California Insurance Agents Arrested for Stealing More Than $30,000
Dec 5 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the arrest of two insurance broker/agents on felony grand theft charges. Carlos Alarcon of Chino, Calif., and Juan Garcia of Temecula, Calif., allegedly defrauded...
Prudential to Sell Securities Brokerage Business Stake to Wells Fargo
Dec 4 2008 // Prudential Financial Inc., the second-largest U.S. life insurer, said it plans to sell its 38 percent stake in the Wachovia Securities brokerage to Wells Fargo & Co. The stake is worth about $5 billion, or more than...
Agents Speak Out on ‘Putting Back the Pieces’ after Brooke
Dec 4 2008 // “Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” said Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/owner of RKC Financial in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas,...
