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AI for Agents
Sep 8 2025 // Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are creating exciting times for just about everyone. The insurance industry is standing on the cusp of an exhilarating technological revolution, primarily driven by AI, writes Anupam...
Why P&C Insurance Wholesalers Need an Agency Management System
Sep 5 2025 // Wholesalers in the Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance industry manage a high volume of policies, submissions, and agency relationships across multiple carriers. Without a centralized system, it becomes difficult...
Tropolis Completes Acquisitions of 8 Agencies in 3 States
Sep 3 2025 // Tropolis Insurance Services said it has completed eight agency acquisitions across the United States. Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. The tech-enabled brokerage providing property/casualty and employee...
Husband and Wife Insurance Agents Charged With $700K Fraud Scheme
Aug 29 2025 // A Massachusetts couple was arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a scheme that defrauded at least 50 individuals or insurance providers of more than $700,000 through their insurance agency, BL Insurance...
Former Alfa Agent in Georgia Pleads Guilty to Misusing Premium Payments
Aug 28 2025 // A former Alfa insurance agent in Georgia pleaded guilty Wednesday to using more than $200,000 from one policyholder to cover other expenses, including the premium payments for other insureds. Jeremy Lasseter, of Warner...
7 Ways Producer Data Helps Carriers Determine Broker Compensation
Aug 26 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The first most expensive aspect of an insurance carrier’s business is claims—no surprise there. But often the second most expensive line item in the insurance...
Pivix Specialty Launches E&S Brokerage Unit With Gramm at Helm
Aug 20 2025 // Pivix Specialty Insurance Services Inc., a Scottsdale-based excess and surplus managing general agent distributing through wholesale brokers, has opened a brokerage division. Pivix, which is backed by Ambac Financial...
Markets/Coverages: Ryan Expands E&O Program for Small, Medium Insurance Agents
Aug 19 2025 // Managing general underwriter Ryan Financial Lines has expanded its national Insurance Agents & Brokers E&O Program, now offering an admitted product that is available to retail agents in most states. The enhanced...
Insurance Agent Earned Town’s Trust. But Officials Say He Ran a $95M Ponzi Scheme.
Aug 19 2025 // For decades, Miles “Burt” Marshall was the man you went to see in a stretch of upstate New York if you had some money to invest but wanted to keep it local. Working from an office in the charming village of...
Tampa Woman Posed as Insurance Agent, Used App to Take Payments, Indictment Says
Aug 18 2025 // A September trial for a Tampa woman charged with posing as an insurance agent and keeping thousands of dollars in auto insurance premiums has been postponed until December. Katrenia Lynette Harris, 54, was indicted by a...
Markets/Coverages: Marsh Launches BrokerSafe for Freight Broker Auto Coverage
Aug 14 2025 // Broker Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan, the launch of BrokerSafe, an exclusive insurance facility for U.S. freight broker clients seeking access to more stable and affordable freight broker auto liability...
Insurtech Looks to ‘Redefine’ Insurance With Autonomous AI Agents by 2026
Aug 13 2025 // Insurtech Superagent AI issued a press release yesterday to announce its goal of starting the first fully autonomous AI insurance agent by the end of the year. “We’re not just reshaping insurance. We’re...
Specialist Risk Group Acquires London-Based City Quarter Brokers
Aug 12 2025 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based group of insurance intermediaries, has entered into an agreement to acquire City Quarter Brokers, subject to regulatory approval. Financial details of the deal were not...
Ontario Teachers’ Sells Stake in French Broker Diot-Siaci to Private Equity Firm Ardian
Aug 8 2025 // Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has signed a definitive agreement to sell its stake in Diot-Siaci, a Paris-based corporate insurance brokerage group, to French private equity firm Ardian. Financial details of the deal...
People Moves: Crest Names Gibbs Commercial Lines Broker and Muehlebach General Counsel
Aug 8 2025 // Easton Gibbs Crest Insurance Group hired Easton Gibbs as a commercial lines broker. He most recently served as a screening solutions specialist at Exact Sciences. Gibbs previously played professional football with the...
Mercury Insurance and Safeco Insurance to Transition California Customers and Agents
Aug 6 2025 // Mercury Insurance is partnering with Liberty Mutual Insurance on a plan to provide coverage for thousands of California Safeco Insurance customers impacted by a shift in Liberty Mutual’s California personal lines...
People Moves: Resilience Hires Riviezzo to Expand Broker Network; NFP Adds Nordeen to Lead C&I Business
Aug 6 2025 // James Riviezzo Resilience, headquartered in New York City, named James C. Riviezzo as head of North American distribution and strategy. Riviezzo has over 25 years of industry experience, joining Resilience from At-Bay...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Australian Broker MACK Insurance Services
Aug 6 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based broker, announced the acquisition of Australia-based MACK Insurance Services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. MACK Insurance Services is a...
Business Moves: Private Equity Firm J.C. Flowers Acquires Italian Insurance Broker Caleas; UIB International Sells Minority Stake in UIB Insurance Brokers (India)
Aug 5 2025 // Private Equity Firm J.C. Flowers Acquires Italian Insurance Broker Caleas J.C. Flowers & Co. (JCF), a private equity investment firm that focuses on financial services investments, announced that investment vehicles...
Fla. Insurance Agent Charged With Premium Theft Now in Prison, Has Paid Restitution
Aug 5 2025 // A high-profile southwest Florida insurance agent who pleaded “no contest” to absconding with thousands of dollars in premiums has been sentenced to just over a year in prison. Reid J. McDaniel, 33, of North...
