Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Underwriters tighten ropes on yacht accounts
Feb 11 2007 // Following the costly hurricane years of 2004 and 2005, the yacht insurance market has “hardened” substantially. Although the market has seen some “softening” recently, the Florida, Gulf Coast states...
Fla. Charges 2 Insurance Brokers, 1 Other in Major Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 9 2007 // Three Floridians including two insurance brokers have been charged with fraud and conspiracy for allegedly providing hundreds of workers with falsified workers’ compensation insurance certificates to more than 300...
Agents Welcome Windstorm Debate; Insurers Warn Against Subsidies
Feb 9 2007 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”) says the debate over windstorm coverage is crucial for consumers and independent agents and brokers in many regions throughout the...
Heritage General Names Senteno Brokers/Senior Underwriter
Feb 8 2007 // Los Angeles-based Heritage General Agency announced that Uriel Senteno, broker/senior underwriter, has joined the company’s personal lines division. Senteno has a history of working in the life and healthcare...
Professional Program Insurance Brokerage Changing to MGA
Feb 8 2007 // Professional Program Insurance Brokerage based in Novato, Calif., announced it is changing its agency structure to a wholesaler. It will no longer accept applications client direct for its proprietary tanning and beauty,...
Brown & Brown Reports Asset Acquisition of La. Agencies
Feb 7 2007 // Roy Bridges, regional executive vice president, responsible for Brown & Brown Inc.’s operations in Louisiana and other southeastern states, and Jerry J. Marcello, president of Marcello Agency Inc., American...
Los Angeles Agent-Broker Association Installs Officers
Feb 6 2007 // Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers Association-Los Angeles installed its officers this week in Santa Monica, Calif. The 2007 officers include: Tim Cline, Timothy Cline Insurance, president; Lyshon Jackson, Hub...
Liverpool Victoria Names Colinshaw Sr. Broker to Head ABC Insurance
Feb 6 2007 // The UK’s Liverpool Victoria’s ABC Insurance has appointed Paul Colinshaw as Head of Broker Operations. He will be responsible for service delivery and developing and managing ABC’s operational...
Minn. RJF Agencies Add Executive Vice President, Business Development
Feb 6 2007 // RJF Agencies have announced the hiring of Craig Bongart as its new executive vice president of business development. Prior to joining RJF, Bongart spent 20 years leading sales teams for financial services firms, including...
Conn. Agencies Merge
Feb 5 2007 // Darien, Conn.-based independent insurance agency Fisher & Fisher has merged with Westbrook-based Gowrie, Barden & Brett. John Fisher will serve as president of the company’s Personal Insurance Division. The...
Calif. Department of Insurance Offers Online Service for Agencies
Feb 2 2007 // The California Department of Insurance has introduced a new Internet service for insurance agencies to add or remove insurance agents from their records. This new service streamlines the process for agencies to add or...
Calif. Commissioner to Examine Broker Disclosure, Workers’ Comp Issues
Feb 1 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner may have three major priorities for his office — to make his office non-partisan, to fight insurance fraud and to prepare the state for the next major disaster — but that...
Mich. Farmers, Foremost Insurance Sponsor “Drive for 55” Agent Contest
Feb 1 2007 // Beginning Feb. 1, 2007 Farmers and Foremost Insurance invite agents to put the pedal to the metal and “Drive for 55”. This is just one way that Foremost will celebrate 55 years serving the insurance industry in...
Kansas Legislative Proposal Seeks to Toughen Fraud Law
Feb 1 2007 // A bill in the Kansas Senate targeting the largest insurance frauds would strength the state’s existing law that doles out little punishment to serious insurance criminals, according to the Coalition Against Insurance...
La. Agent Arrested, License Revoked
Feb 1 2007 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section recently announced it revoked the license of insurance agent Janis Dalene Simms Blaylock, 29, at the Richland Parish Detention Center in Rayville where she surrendered to...
U.S. Risk Brokers Promotes Way
Feb 1 2007 // U.S. Risk Brokers, a subsidiary of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, announced that Tiffany Way has been promoted from associate broker to broker. She is located at U.S. Risk Brokers’ Austin, Texas, office. Way is...
Austin, Texas, Agent Appointed to Encompass Advisory Panel
Jan 31 2007 // Austin, Texas, independent insurance agent Vicky Lindsey has been named to the national board of NorthStar, the agent advisory panel for Encompass Insurance. Her appointment was effective Jan. 1, 2007. NorthStar provides a...
Cincinnati Agent Elected to Encompass NorthStar Executive Board
Jan 31 2007 // Cincinnati insurance agent Carl Schlotman III was appointed to the executive board of NorthStar, the agent advisory panel for Encompass Insurance. His appointment became effective on Jan. 1, 2007. NorthStar provides a...
N.Y. Agents Award Scholarship Named in Kozel’s Honor to Bresin
Jan 31 2007 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. announced that Amanda Bresin received its Bernard I. Kozel Memorial Scholarship award. Bresin is a marketing and customer service representative for Garber Atlas...
Hanover Launches Marine Advantage Underwriting Team
Jan 31 2007 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. has developed a new unit of marine specialists designed to assist agents placing small volumes of inland marine business. The Marine Underwriting Advantage Team will offer agent partners of...
