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Sep 22 2008 // Swiss Re appointed Walter A. Bell chairman of Swiss Re America Holding Corp. He will provide supervisory governance of the Americas businesses and also will oversee and direct regulatory and public affairs for all of Swiss...
Hope is Not an Agency Plan
Sep 22 2008 // Despite current market conditions, as I travel from state to state, I find the goal of almost every independent agent is to grow personal lines business. The basis of this organic growth strategy is adding new clients or...
Hope is Not an Agency Plan
Sep 22 2008 // Despite current market conditions, as I travel from state to state, I find the goal of almost every independent agent is to grow personal lines business. The basis of this organic growth strategy is adding new clients or...
The Road to a Paper-Free Environment Goes Beyond Technology
Sep 22 2008 // Paperless Agencies Create Better Workflows, Enhance Service, Security and Save Money, Too On the side of a Utah highway, the client had been pulled over by a state trooper at a traffic stop. It was a frustrating...
Credit Rating Agencies’ Cuts on AIG Signal Downgrades Ahead
Sep 21 2008 // Credit rating agencies, criticized for moving too slowly in cutting ratings on Wall Street firms and the complex instruments they devised, are now accused of acting too quickly. As the credit crisis enters a new phase, the...
Funeral Held for Insurance Agent, California Bans Train Operators from Texting
Sep 19 2008 // The first memorial service for a victim of the Sept. 12, 2008, Metrolink train collision was held in Simi Valley, Calif. Howard Pompel, 69, an insurance agent and father of three from Moorpark, Calif., was among the 25...
Program Broker NSM Insurance Appoints McKernan President
Sep 19 2008 // NSM Insurance Group has appointed Bill McKernan as president of the national insurance program administrator and brokerage company headquartered in Conshohocken, Pa. Geof McKernan will continue in his role as chief...
Heffernan Insurance Brokers Appoint Maciorowski Vice President in Missouri
Sep 16 2008 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers today announced the appointment of Greg Maciorowski as vice president in its Midwest practice group, based in Missouri. In this role, Greg will be charged with new business development for...
For Independent Agents, Carriers’ Claims Service is Top Performance Measure
Sep 15 2008 // Independent insurance agents want their property/casualty insurance carriers to provide quality claims service above all else, according to an exclusive survey of agents’ attitudes about the insurers their agencies...
NYMAGIC Builds Surplus Lines Brokerage Network
Sep 15 2008 // NYMAGIC, Inc. reported that its MMO Agencies unit has begun to write new business through 10 offices of surplus lines agents in Florida, New York, New Jersey and Kentucky, and that it expects to add offices of surplus...
Texas Agents Group Gears up Disaster Response Team
Sep 15 2008 // In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas has initiated its catastrophe response plan to offer assistance to member agencies that have been severely adversely affected by the massive...
Bank Insurance Brokerage Earnings Break Highest Mid-Year Level
Sep 15 2008 // Mid-year earnings from bank insurance brokerage hit their highest level ever in the first half of 2008. Bank insurance brokerage earnings in the first six months of 2008 were $2.12 billion, up 6.4 percent from $1.99...
Willis to Keep HRH’s Glencairn as Third Party Wholesaler
Sep 12 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has announced that ” Glencairn, Hilb Rogal & Hobbs’ London-based operation,” will form the “cornerstone” of a “new third-party wholesale brokerage...
Agents Access New Markets at the Exchange
Sep 11 2008 // SAN DIEGO – September 11, 2008 – The MyNewMarkets.com Exchange format is proving to be a winning formula for retail agents who need markets and P&C markets who need agents. Billed as an insurance...
Sterling Grant Names Oliva Insurance Broker
Sep 11 2008 // Phoenix-based Sterling Grant & Associates has promoted Mario Oliva to broker, focusing on commercial insurance portfolios for a variety of industries, including the bar, restaurant and night club sector. Oliva began...
Broker Analyzes Flood Threats to UK Businesses
Sep 11 2008 // UK broker Alliance Corporate Risk Management is concerned that “with flooding having caused yet more devastation across the UK, …businesses are still not learning the lessons of previous flood...
Oklahoma Agents Group Surveys Legislative Candidates on Issues
Sep 11 2008 // As the political season moves into high gear, the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma (IIAO) has released the results of a non-partisan survey of candidates for state legislative offices. The association acknowledged...
Surplus Lines Brokers’ Group Launches Awareness Campaign
Sep 11 2008 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices Ltd. launched an education and awareness campaign to demonstrate the value that wholesale brokers bring to retail brokers and corporate risk managers when...
Chubb Expands Multinational Insurance Coverage Capabilities
Sep 10 2008 // The Chubb Group announced that it has”expanded its multinational insurance group to encompass both Chubb’s standard P/C products and specialty coverage, such as directors and officers liability insurance. Chubb...
Neary Joins Insurance Broker Lockton in Washington, D.C.
Sep 10 2008 // Brian Neary has joined insurance broker Lockton in Washington, D.C. as a vice president and producer in the firm’s employee benefits consulting practice. Prior to joining Lockton, Neary was a with Mercer Health...
