Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
PHLY Launches Coverage for Home Health Care Agencies
Jun 3 2008 // Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. (PHLY) has launched a new line of insurance products aimed at home health care and hospice services. The new line offers general liability, professional liability, property,...
4 Texas Agencies Picked for Big ‘I’ Best Practices Study Group
Jun 3 2008 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced four of its member agencies, Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts, Bryan Insurance, Pierson & Fendley and Weatherby-Eisenrich, were selected to participated...
Court Turns Maryland Condo Insurance Upside Down
Jun 3 2008 // A dispute over $6,400 in damage to a Maryland townhouse led to an unexpected court decision that has reversed 26 years of standard industry practice, and left insurers, agents, lawmakers and condominium associations...
Agents and Brokers: Rate Your Regional vs. National Insurers
Jun 3 2008 // How do you rank your relationships with regional and national property/casualty insurers? How do their services compare? How would you rate underwriter knowledge, experience and stability for regional and national...
Authorities Find Insurance Investigator’s Body; Agent Charged
Jun 2 2008 // Authorities searching a wooded area on May 20 found the body of a North Carolina insurance investigator who prosecutors believe was killed by the owner of an agency she was auditing. Police searched for Sallie Rohrbach,...
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Jun 2 2008 // Appleton, Wis.-based Integrity Mutual Insurance Co. named Darin L. Kath as president-designate. Richard J. Schinler, current president and chief executive officer, will retire after 25 years with the company on Dec. 31. He...
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Jun 2 2008 // Markel Corp. named Anthony F. (Tony) Markel vice chairman and Paul W. Springman president and chief operating officer. Markel has been associated with Markel Corp. for more than 40 years, most recently serving as president...
Labor Rift at Greenbrier Resort Forcing Insurance Brokers to Move Meetings
Jun 2 2008 // A labor-management dispute at a luxury resort in West Virginia is forcing the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers — a longtime customer — to search for alternate venues for its conferences. The group of...
Fraud fight up against budget shortfalls
Jun 2 2008 // But Southeast states show some progress, with auto ‘give-ups’ among the targets Budget shortfalls have slowed the progress of fraud bills in many states around the U.S. while lawmakers feverishly work to find...
Storm Ready
Jun 2 2008 // Forecasters predict that the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season will be an active one for hurricane and tropical storm formation. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most recent forecast calls for 12 to...
Outgoing President Believes Service to IIAT Has Benefitted Him ‘Tremendously’
Jun 2 2008 // For outgoing Independent Insurance Agents of Texas President Frank Swingle, serving on the board of the agents’ organization for the past six years has “been tremendously fun and beneficial.” And he plans...
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Jun 2 2008 // Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. CEO Frank R. Berry and President Diana G. Berry are retiring. The Austin, Texas-based managing general agency chose to perpetuate by passing the leadership of the firm to Mike Berry,...
Claims of Agent’s Professional Negligence Can Be Assigned To Third Party
Jun 2 2008 // The Supreme Court of Arizona ruled that an insurance agent’s clients may assert claims for professional negligence against the client and may assign such claims to third parties. According to D. Jere’ Webb v....
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Jun 2 2008 // Markel Corp.’s Board of Directors elected Anthony F. (Tony) Markel vice chairman and Paul W. Springman president and chief operating officer. Markel served Markel Corp. for more than 40 years, most recently as...
California House Passes Agent-Broker Bill
Jun 2 2008 // The California Assembly on May 22, 2008, passed a bill that would help to clarify when an insurance professional is acting in the capacity of a broker versus an agent. The Assembly voted 60-6 in favor of AB 2956. The...
Storm Ready
Jun 2 2008 // Forecasters predict that the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season will be an active one for hurricane and tropical storm formation. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most recent forecast sees 12 to 16...
The Hartford, Progressive, ABA Team up for Community Bank Program
Jun 2 2008 // The New Alliance Can Handle Banks With up to $5 Billion in Assets but the ‘Sweet Spot’ is up to $2 Billion Agents submitting community bank risks to the new alliance between The Hartford and Progressive should...
Soft Market Tests Program Administrators’ Survival Skills
Jun 2 2008 // It’s Time to Focus Marketing, Upgrade Data, Round Out Business In a recent letter to fellow program administrators, Greg Thompson, CEO of Thompson Insurance Enterprises Inc. and Target Markets Program Administrators...
Ohio Agents Sponsor 2008 Insurance Career Internship Program
May 30 2008 // The Professional Insurance Agents Association of Ohio, Inc. (PIA) Internship Program, recently announced that its 2008 program for insurance industry interns was operational. On May 28 the PIA welcomed 12 interns hosting a...
Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers Names Wells Agent of the Year
May 30 2008 // Pacific Interstate Insurance Brokers, a marketing organization consisting of 60 independent agencies located throughout California, selected Kirby Wells as its agent of the year for 2007- 2008.Wells is president of Cordova...
