Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Illinois’ Weiss Insurance Agencies
Dec 4 2017 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Wayne, Illinois-based Weiss Insurance Agencies Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1905, Weiss Insurance Agencies provides a full range of employee...
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Dec 4 2017 // Garrett Sprowls, general counsel and managing broker of Austin-based Professional Lines Underwriting Specialists Inc. (PLUS Inc.), has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. (TSLA). Other newly...
Insurtech Startup Debuts with $6M and Proactive Cyber Risk Product
Dec 4 2017 // A California insurtech startup with a new cyber product has launched to offer brokers and their clients what it calls “redesigned insurance, with cyber security expertise at its core.” Mountain View,...
EPIC Adds Elliott as Executive VP in Austin
Dec 1 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, the retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting subsidiary of EPIC Holdings, has added insurance brokerage industry veteran Sam Elliott in Austin,...
Associated Risk Managers’ Easley Named President of Indiana Big ‘I’
Dec 1 2017 // Greg Easley has been elected president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana (Indiana Big “I”). Easley currently serves as chairman of Associated Risk Managers International (ARM), and previously has...
EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants Hires Hays to New Pittsburgh Location
Dec 1 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired Eric Hays as regional director of employee benefits. Hays will be based in EPIC’s...
AFL Insurance Brokers Taps RK Harrison’s Stagg to Drive Tech Innovation
Dec 1 2017 // AFL Insurance Brokers Ltd. announced that re/insurance broker George Stagg has joined the company to lead its technology incubator division as associate director, innovation. Stagg joins from RK Harrison, where he was most...
DEA Opens Kentucky Field Office to Target Opioid Abuse
Dec 1 2017 // The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by overdose deaths. The new Louisville field office will have a special...
Burns & Wilcox Opens Office in Downtown Los Angeles
Nov 30 2017 // Burns & Wilcox has opened an office in downtown Los Angeles. The office, located at 515 S. Flower St, is the second location in the greater Los Angeles area and seventh major location for Burns & Wilcox in...
Aon Switzerland Buys Swiss Broker Unidelta AG
Nov 30 2017 // Aon plc has acquired 100 percent interest in Unidelta AG, an insurance broker located in Rapperswil, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Unidelta AG was founded in 2004, and is an independent all-line insurance broker with a strong...
Former Washington Insurance Agent Jailed in $233K Workers’ Comp Scam
Nov 29 2017 // A Lake Stevens, Wash. man who ran an insurance agency while claiming he was too disabled to work must serve jail time. The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries says 53-year-old James Kooy was sentenced...
Manus Elected as President, Chief Brokerage Officer at Holborn in NYC
Nov 29 2017 // Holborn Corporation (Holborn), a U.S.-based independent reinsurance broker, announced that its board has elected Adam Manus as president and chief brokerage officer, effective immediately. Manus is based in the...
Another Insurance Fraud Reminder
Nov 29 2017 // Two recent stories in Insurance Journal caught my eye and gave me this topic. Florida Puts Worker’s Comp Carrier Guarantee Insurance In Receivership Florida Keys Insurance Agent Accused of Defrauding Citizens...
Wells Fargo Closing Down Its Personal Insurance Business
Nov 28 2017 // Wells Fargo & Co. announced it is exiting the personal insurance business and will immediately begin winding down its marketing. The company said the exit process should be completed during the first quarter of 2018....
Insurance Startup Berkley One Launches in Illinois
Nov 28 2017 // Startup insurance provider, Berkley One, has launched in Illinois, the first state of a planned national state-by-state rollout. Working with a select group of independent agents, Berkley One offers home, automobile, fine...
Trending in 2017
Nov 27 2017 // Within a month, we’ll be archiving our 2017 whitepapers and reports, as we seek the most current content available for 2018. For those of you new to Research & Trends, here is a chance to review and easily locate...
How to Help Clients Protect Payment Processing Systems
Nov 27 2017 // The holidays are coming, bringing heightened anticipation. Families look forward to time together, children can’t wait for presents, merchants envision boosted sales and criminals dream of a wealth of unprotected...
Florida Keys Insurance Agent Accused of Defrauding Citizens Insurance
Nov 27 2017 // A Florida insurance agent has been arrested after allegedly submitting a fraudulent insurance policy to Citizens Property Insurance Corp., according to a statement from Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis and the Florida Department...
Best Agencies to Work For Midwest: R&R Insurance – Bronze
Nov 22 2017 // Investing in Growth and Community, Sharing Success From leadership style, to growth in a sluggish economy, to profit sharing, to career opportunities, to doing the right thing for customers, and more, employees of R&R...
Best Agencies to Work For South Central: Garrett Insurance Agency – Bronze
Nov 22 2017 // A Century Young and Still Going Strong A family-owned insurance agency doesn’t make it to 100 years and counting without doing a lot of things right, and the fact that Garrett Insurance Agency (GIA) in Kerrville,...
