Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
People
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....
People
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...
Good Time to Lock in Property Insurance Pricing, Advise Brokers
May 30 2008 // Science and technology are converging with risk management to help insurers negotiate the current hurricane season such that it’s now possible to use short-term hurricane forecasts — as few as 10 days out...
MHBT’s Bowles Receives Leadership Award From Dallas Agents Group
May 29 2008 // Ryan Bowles, a vice president in the property and casualty group of McQueary Henry Bowles Troy’s Dallas office, recently received the Charlie Sammons Service Leadership Award from the Independent Insurance Agents of...
Residents, Agents Pitch In as Minnesota Town Recovers from Storm
May 29 2008 // Crews in Hugo, Minn. worked to restore electricity and natural gas and insurance agents went door-to-door as this small suburb got back on its feet after the devastating storm that killed a toddler and flattened...
China’s CNinsure Forms Two New Agencies
May 28 2008 // China’s CNinsure Inc. announced the signing of definitive agreements with several individual entrepreneurial agents to jointly establish Jiangsu Fanhua Lianchuang Insurance Agency Co. Ltd. (‘Lianchuang’)...
Duering Retires from American E&S Insurance Brokers
May 28 2008 // After 40 years in the insurance industry, Vivien Duering will retire from American E&S Insurance Brokers on June 30. Duering has spent 22 years with American E&S, serving as broker, San Francisco property...
California Assembly Passes Agent-Broker Bill
May 28 2008 // The California Assembly 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 in favor of AB 2956 by a margin of 60-6. The measure...
Swingle Says He’s Benefited From Service to Texas Agents’ Group
May 28 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...
