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#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 Turning Non-Standard Risks Into New Revenue: How Agents Can Capitalize
Jul 21 2025 // Independent agents could be turning away nearly half of their prospective clients. The years of independent agents chasing “standard and preferred” home and auto risks are quickly coming to an end. As the risk...
#4 Scaling Smart: How Independent Agencies Can Grow With Intention
Aug 4 2025 // In today’s competitive market, independent insurance agencies are under increasing pressure to grow. Organic growth is harder to achieve, client expectations are evolving, and technology is reshaping how agencies...
#5 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...
#6 Musk, Ramaswamy Will Lean on Supreme Court Rulings to Cut US Agencies
Nov 21 2024 // Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said the government efficiency panel that President-elect Donald Trump has named them to lead will follow recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that they say can be used to take power away from...
#7 Former Baltimore County Insurance Agent Charged With Crimes for 4th Time
Jul 30 2025 // In the fourth set of criminal charges filed against him since last September, a former Baltimore County insurance agent and financial advisor has been charged with obstruction of justice and fabricating physical evidence,...
#8 Viewpoint: How Will the California FAIR Plan Fare? What’s Next for Independent Agents?
Feb 10 2025 // If there is a single bright spot to be found in the aftermath of the costliest wildfire in California’s history, it is that both the property/casualty insurance industry and the independent agents who serve as its...
#9 I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Insurance Agent
Mar 10 2025 // This is obviously a warped paraphrase of the famous line from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” “Badges! I don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” Warped is the insurance world we live in, and...
#10 Texas Agencies Missed Opportunities to Fund Flood Warning System
Jul 10 2025 // Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in...
#11 California Surplus Lines Take-Up Soars as Brokers Work to Find Coverage for Clients
Jul 15 2025 // The best way to tell that the California homeowners insurance market has been a bear is to see where buyers facing higher rates and lack of options in traditional markets are going for alternatives. One choice is the...
#12 The Good and Bad About Being an Independent Insurance Agent
Apr 21 2025 // What’s so great about being a young independent agent today? Freedom, quality of life, opportunities to grow, challenges and the ability to solve them, the people and relationships built, the compensation, and, of...
#13 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...
#14 Making the Shift in 2025: How to Become an Independent Insurance Agent
Feb 13 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Darkhorse Insurance. The insurance industry is evolving rapidly in 2025, making it the perfect time to learn how to become an independent insurance agent. Agents should embrace...
#15 Former Insurance Agent Arraigned in Scam for Fake Cannabis Business
Aug 1 2025 // A formerly licensed insurance agent was arraigned this week on multiple felony charges involving fraud for duping people to invest in a non-existent marijuana business. Matthew Evans, 36, of Palmdale, pleaded not guilty to...
#16 Agents Charged in $250 Million Off-Shore Insurance Scheme
Dec 4 2024 // Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. announced the indictment of officers of Inter-Insurance Agency Services Ltd. and the firm for their roles in an eight-year scheme in which they allegedly provided more than $250...
#17 Big Threat? Payroll Companies Taking Insurance Biz Away From Agencies, Agents Warn
Feb 26 2025 // Insurance agents in Florida and beyond are finding that some of their toughest competition now seems to be coming from firms that aren’t really insurance agencies at all – at least not in the historical sense of...
#18 Viewpoint: How Will the California FAIR Plan Fare? What’s Next for Independent Agents?
Feb 24 2025 // If there is a single bright spot to be found in the aftermath of the costliest wildfire in California’s history, it is that both the property/casualty insurance industry and the independent agents who serve as its...
#19 Carolina Agents, Insureds Stunned by Unprecedented Damage So Far Inland
Oct 1 2024 // Insurance agents in the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, said they and their policyholders have been stunned by the catastrophic damage brought so far inland by Hurricane Helene, which dumped 14 inches of rain...
#20 Ice Cream Sandwich Maker Blames Agent for Lack of Recall Insurance After $4.5M Loss
May 14 2025 // The maker of Chipwich ice cream sandwiches is suing its insurance broker alleging the agency was negligent in failing to properly secure product recall insurance that would have helped it deal with what it claims is a $4.5...
