Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wash. Gears Up for All Industry Day
Jan 9 2006 // On Feb. 1, the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Washington, Surplus Line Association of Washington, Insurance Agents and Brokers of the West (IBA West), WA Council of National Association of Insurance Women,...
Enhanced IJ Broadcasting Enlivens Web Content with Interviews, Videos, Ads and More
Jan 9 2006 // Insurance Journal has launched IJ Broadcasting, an enhanced section on its Web site for multimedia content that will include video and audio interviews, current news and features, educational workshops and other...
Commercial Insurance Buyers Report Productivity Savings Across all Lines
Jan 9 2006 // Insurance buyers see increasing value from reducing their total cost of risk across multiple lines of commercial insurance, according to a new survey commissioned by Wausau Insurance of 200 financial executives. Eighty-one...
Agent Wins Appeal of Fraud Conviction in Ark.
Jan 6 2006 // An insurance agent accused of defrauding the state when he didn’t mention he had a criminal history when applying for an Arkansas insurance license has won an appeal. The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Jan. 4...
Case, Gould Join U.S. Risk Brokers in Houston Office
Jan 6 2006 // U.S. Risk Brokers reported two new additions to its Houston office. Paul S. Case joined as vice president and Ruth E. Gould was added as a senior broker. Case has an extensive property background after serving 24 years at...
Lloyd’s Survey Confirms Small Business Confidence in Brokers
Jan 5 2006 // A survey, commissioned by the General Insurance Market Association (GIMRA), which queried 500 small and medium-sized businesses (SME’s), has determined that they continue to have confidence in traditional insurance...
How Producers Build Up Construction Insurance Business
Jan 5 2006 // Insurance producers land new accounts every day. But successfully building a solid block of business from one new account does not happen every day, particularly in the field of construction insurance. Dave Sinclair of...
Gov. Perry to Headline IIAT’s Joe Vincent Management Seminar
Jan 5 2006 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry will deliver a special luncheon address to nearly 400 of the state’s most progressive and influential independent insurance agency principals and managers when they gather for the Independent...
Venture Programs Launches Industry-First E-Marketing Campaign
Jan 5 2006 // 30-second video spot to broadcast on insurance news web sites is first by a program administrator targeting agent and broker market West Chester, Pa.- Venture Insurance Programs (www.ventureprograms.com), a national...
Michigan Insurer Honors Top Independent Agents
Jan 4 2006 // American Community Mutual Insurance Company, a provider of individual and group health insurance, home-based in Livonia, Mich., honored its top-producing independent agents earlier this year. The annual event recognizes...
Rainier Pacific Bank Finalizes Purchase of Wash. Insurance Agencies
Jan 3 2006 // Rainier Pacific Financial Group Inc. reported that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Rainier Pacific Bank, has completed its acquisition of the property and casualty insurance businesses of Christopherson-Boze Insurance...
Agents, Brokers, Carriers: Insurance Outlook Good for 2006
Jan 2 2006 // With the insurance industry surviving a year filled with catastrophe losses and the challenge of reauthorizing the terrorism reinsurance backstop legislation, the prospects still seem bright for 2006 according to agents,...
N.J.-Based E&S Broker Jimcor Adds Seigel, Promotes 2 Others
Jan 2 2006 // Jimcor Agencies, a Northeast excess and surplus lines wholesaler based in Montvale, N.J., made several management changes. Frank Seigel has joined as the North New Jersey branch manager. Seigel brings with him more than 30...
Agent Accused of Invasion of Privacy
Jan 2 2006 // A Waterloo, Iowa insurance agent has been arrested for allegedly hiding a wireless camera in his office restroom. Robert Speirs, 53, an American Family insurance agent, said he put the camera in the restroom because he...
Sizing Up The Construction Market
Jan 2 2006 // The list of insurers is hsorter and restrictions longer When he is presented with a construction account at his office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Rubin Alspector can quickly determine which insurers might write it. He...
Brokers continue to gain; M&A activity remains steady
Jan 2 2006 // Stock Prices: Insurance brokers continued to experience gains in their stock prices in October and November. The median increase was 6 percent compared to a 10 percent increase for the August and September period. With the...
Building up construction insurance, block by block
Jan 2 2006 // Agent Dave Sinclair remembers his first construction account well since it was only about six years ago. It was a plumber contract with a premium of about $70,000. Today Sinclair’s Wallingford, Conn.-based agency...
2006: The year when changes take hold
Jan 2 2006 // This coming 2006 New Year seems like it will be the start of a year of big changes for the industry. It is not that the industry will be pulled out by its roots and shaken. Rather, many of the slow and even subtle changes...
The industry goes to school
Jan 2 2006 // More universities that offer insurance degrees In this second installment in a series, Insurance Journal profiled five universities that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in insurance. More universities will be...
PIA of Louisiana resolutions seek hurricane relief assistance
Jan 2 2006 // Association calls on insurance companies to assist during extended recovery period Thanking insurance companies on behalf of Louisiana insurance agents and the policyholders they represent for the carriers’ hard work...
