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Breckenridge Welcomes Sheree Davis as Senior Vice President, Program Director
Jul 30 2020 // Atlanta, GA, July 30, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Group welcomes Sheree Davis to the company as a senior vice president, program director. Davis has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience with significant...
The Importance of Forensic Accounting to Future Hurricane BI Claims
Jul 30 2020 // As a licensed general contractor and a certified public accountant in South Florida who has been advising clients in accounting- and construction-related issues for the past 15 years, I have seen hurricane seasons come and...
Former Ohio Insurance Agent Gets 9 Years in Prison for $1.1M Theft from Clients
Jul 29 2020 // A former Ohio insurance agent has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing more than $1.1 million from clients, according to the Ohio Department of Insurance. The ODI said Gregory Oliver, of Milford, Ohio, was...
Insurance Broker Acrisure Acquires Tulco’s Artificial Intelligence Insurance Business
Jul 29 2020 // Insurance broker Acrisure announced that it has acquired artificial intelligence (AI) company Tulco LLC’s insurance practice with the aim of bringing data science, AI and machine learning capabilities to the...
As COVID-19 Work-From-Home Orders and Online Business Strategies are Revisited, Cyber Coverage Becomes More Important Than Ever
Jul 29 2020 // Monrovia, CA, July 29, 2020 – Plum Insurance Services has the Right Program for Wholesale Insurance Brokers. While COVID-19 continues to spread like wildfire, businesses are being forced to either extend their...
Another Specialty Broker Begins Selling Pandemic Insurance Coverage
Jul 28 2020 // A Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty broker believes that now is the best time to start offering pandemic insurance. Elite Risk Insurance, which specializes in bespoke risk, is offering Pandemic Outbreak with COVID-19...
Encova Insurance Offering Personal Lines Products Digitally to Indiana Agents
Jul 28 2020 // Encova Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, has launched a new suite of personal lines products that will be delivered digitally to agents in Indiana. With Encova’s new personal lines product offering, agents and...
Duffy Insurance Agencies Acquires N. Pingree Agency
Jul 28 2020 // The N. Pingree Insurance Agency and its Georgetown and Haverhill, Mass., offices have joined the Duffy Family of Insurance Agencies. N. Pingree Insurance Agency was established in 1938 by H. Nelson Pingree. Brothers Robert...
Insurers Exploring ‘New World’ of Police Officer Professional Liability
Jul 24 2020 // U.S. insurers and brokers are starting to craft professional liability coverage for police officers, spurred on by signs that policymakers in some cities and states want to use a financial stick to curb police...
London Broker Tysers Appoints Buesnel from Deloitte as CEO
Jul 24 2020 // Tysers, the independent, London-based wholesale insurance broker, announced that Clive Buesnel will become its next chief executive officer, subject to regulatory approval. Buesnel has spent much of his career in both...
Specialty Broker Offers Business Insurance Coverage for Pandemic, Epidemic Risks
Jul 23 2020 // A Boston-based national wholesale insurance broker is offering what it says is “among the first and most accessible” insurance policies for commercial risks arising from pandemics and epidemics. The policy,...
Smith to Retire from Chicago’s R-T Specialty
Jul 23 2020 // Scott H. Smith has announced his intention to retire from Chicago-based insurance broker, R-T Specialty LLC, at the end of the year. Smith joined R-T Specialty with the acquisition of his specialty brokerage company, S. H....
Kohal Named President of Brokerage Division at Wisconsin’s ARMR Network
Jul 23 2020 // Middleton, Wisconsin-based American Risk Management Resources Network LLC’s brokerage division has appointed Kari Dybdahl Kohal as the organization’s next president. Kohal brings to the position a wealth of...
Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Parenti with PCF Loves Cannabis and Pizza
Jul 23 2020 // Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips...
Half of Insurance Agencies Lack a Digital Strategy, Applied Systems Survey Finds
Jul 23 2020 // A little more than half (51%) of independent insurance agencies and brokerages say they have some sort of digital strategy in place, with larger firms more likely than smaller to have one. That’s according to...
3 Whys for Making Insurance Policies Easier to Read
Jul 22 2020 // I was recently asked this question. What do you think about efforts to simplify policy language? The answer is never as simple as it seems at first. The simple answer is that I’m for making the insurance policy...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Patino in Tennessee
Jul 22 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Christian Patino to the company as a risk advisor in its Transportation Practice Group. Patino has experience in the transportation and trucking niche, formerly working with...
Texas Agencies Higginbotham and Borden Insurance Merge
Jul 22 2020 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Higginbotham and Borden Insurance, an independent insurance agency located in Corpus Christi, Texas, have joined forces. Led by President and CEO David Erwin Borden, Borden Insurance was previously...
Appeals Court Rejects Florida Hotel’s Coverage Interpretation in Suit Against Insurer
Jul 22 2020 // A recent opinion by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving a case against the insurer of a Florida hotel could clarify an issue of sublimits and have a significant impact on how policies are written in the future,...
Private Equity Firm Aquiline Closes Investment in Dutch Broker Quintes Holding
Jul 20 2020 // Aquiline Capital Partners, a global private investment firm specializing in financial services and technology, announced it has closed its investment in Quintes Holding, one of the largest independent insurance brokers in...
