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2018 Insurance Industry Meetings & Events Directory
Jan 8 2018 // CIWA Industry Days Jan 8-10 Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines La Jolla, Calif. California Insurance Wholesalers Association (CIWA) Contact: Thomas Shovlin, thomas@ciwa.net The 19th Annual Windstorm Insurance Conference Jan...
Top Insurtech Predictions for 2018
Jan 8 2018 // Insurtech is often framed as a force of disruption in the insurance industry. But technology doesn’t disrupt the industry – it enhances the way carriers and customers interact. In 2018, I predict we will...
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Jan 8 2018 // Oklahoma City-based independent insurance agency, INSURICA, has named Mark Bridges to lead its Texas operations as regional president. Bridges is currently the president of INSURICA DFB Insurance Services Inc. (formerly...
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Jan 8 2018 // Encino, Calif.-based Answer Financial has named Kevin Smith director of business development. Smith will report to Tom Capp, senior vice president of business development. Smith has more than 25 years of experience within...
Former California Agent Sentenced for Stealing $100K in Premiums and Investments
Jan 5 2018 // Former licensed insurance agent Frederick Donald Rollins, 42, of Moreno Valley, Calif., was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one felony count of grand theft, two counts of securities fraud and an aggravated...
Number of Licensed Insurance Agencies in Arkansas Grew 4% in 2017
Jan 5 2018 // Arkansas in 2017 had a 4 percent rise in the number of licensed insurance agencies compared with the previous year, the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) reported. In an announcement released by the AID, Arkansas...
Niess Joins Ohio Insurance Agents Assoc. as Business Planning, Valuations Manager
Jan 4 2018 // Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) has added Craig Niess as business planning and valuation manager. Growing OIA’s vision to be a “change agent for agent change,” Niess will lead the...
AmWINS Group to Acquire Seacoast Brokers, Trident Claims Management of South Carolina
Jan 4 2018 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Seacoast Brokers, LLC, a South Carolina-based personal lines specialty MGA that designs,...
The Fine Art of Underwriting Through Soft & Slightly Harder Market Cycles
Jan 3 2018 // Twenty or so years ago, a London market marine underwriter declared he was going golfing one afternoon because he had reached his annual capacity level. That was an underwriting model commonly used in the Lloyd’s and...
Number of Insurance Agents Licensed in Arkansas Rose by 21% Last Year
Jan 3 2018 // There was a 21 percent increase in insurance agent licensure in Arkansas in 2017 compared with the previous year, state insurance regulators announced. According to Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr, the...
Zurich Insurance to Sell UK Student Insurer Endsleigh to Broker A-Plan
Jan 3 2018 // As part of its ongoing restructuring and simplification program, Zurich Insurance announced an agreement to sell its UK student insurer Endsleigh to insurance broker A-Plan Holdings. The financial terms of the deal, which...
Top Insurance Journal East Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // As 2017 wraps up, Insurance Journal is looking back on some of its most popular stories of the year while preparing for what is ahead for the insurance industry in 2018. These are just a few of many topics Insurance...
Top Insurance Journal Midwest Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // A bad broker, classic cars that got destroyed in a fire and insurer rating downgrades were among the most widely read news stories in Insurance Journal’s Midwest region in 2017. Broker Gone Bad One story that...
Top Insurance Journal National Stories of 2017
Dec 29 2017 // It wouldn’t feel right to close out the year without looking back at the most popular stories on Insurance Journal during the past 12 months. Here are the national stories that attracted the most readers in 2017,...
What They Are Saying About Effects of Trump Tax Cuts on Insurance Industry
Dec 22 2017 // Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (HR1) into law. It is the biggest tax change in 30 years. Under the legislation, insurers, agencies and other businesses organized as C...
Integro Insurance Brokers Hires Feron to Marine Practice in New York
Dec 22 2017 // Integro Insurance Brokers, an international broker and risk management firm, has hired Stephen Feron as a senior vice president in its marine practice. Based in New York, Feron will be responsible for the delivery of...
New Hampshire’s Northern United Agents Alliance Adds Three Members
Dec 21 2017 // The Northern United Agents Alliance (NUAA) has announced that Geo M. Stevens Insurance, Voyager Insurance Services LLC and Wieczorek Insurance have joined the NUAA as participating members, effective January 1,...
PIACT Appoints Russell to Task Force to Improve Insurance Industry Workforce
Dec 21 2017 // Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.’s past president, Augusto Russell, has been appointed to a General Assembly task force to improve the insurance industry workforce in Connecticut. He was appointed by...
Energy Property Broker Batten Joins All Risks Ltd. in Dallas
Dec 21 2017 // Independent wholesale insurance broker All Risks Ltd. has added Nancy Batten as energy property broker in its Dallas office. Batten has nearly 30 years of experience in the insurance industry on the wholesaler side. Most...
New Law Requires Notice of Workers’ Comp Premium Hikes in New York
Dec 20 2017 // New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed Assembly Bill No. 1620 into law yesterday, requiring insurance companies to notify employers in advance of some workers’ compensation insurance premium increases. The law was...
