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Best Agencies to Work For West: Kulchin Ross – Bronze
Nov 22 2017 // There are no worries about who will take over at Kulchin Ross Insurance Services LLC when the agency principals decide to hang it up. The agency, which has grown from a handful of employees to more than 30 employees since...
Best Agencies to Work For Southeast: Jones Insurance Agency – Bronze
Nov 22 2017 // Employees of Jones Insurance Agency in Garner, N.C., understand they aren’t just selling an insurance policy, they are carrying on a mission put in place when the company was founded in 1956. Jerry Jones, the...
Best Agencies to Work For Midwest: Esser Hayes Insurance Group – Silver
Nov 21 2017 // A Mission to Attract and Retain Quality People One of the hallmarks of Esser Hayes Insurance Group is that its employees tend to stick around for a long, long time — not because they have to but because they find the...
Best Agencies to Work For South Central: Insgroup – Silver
Nov 21 2017 // Prepared for the Future Even before its offices were inundated with 10 feet of water by Hurricane Harvey, Insgroup’s employees were proclaiming the agency’s virtues and lobbying for its inclusion as an...
Best Agencies to Work For West: Wood Gutmann – Silver
Nov 21 2017 // One can say the managers of Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers have made a long-term commitment to their workers. “Employee engagement” is a term Kevin Bogart, CEO of the firm, almost couldn’t...
Best Agencies to Work For Southeast: Frank H. Furman – Silver
Nov 21 2017 // As a Florida-based agency, employees at Frank H. Furman understand the value of insurance and the important role they play as advisors. And they say the company’s team-focused and supportive environment motivates...
Best Agencies to Work For South Central: BKCW – Gold
Nov 20 2017 // The Place to Work for Insurance Veterans and Newbies Alike Employees at BKCW say there’s a lot to like at the Central Texas-based insurance agency, including its hiring practices, its friendly culture, its...
Best Agencies to Work For Midwest: Gibson – Gold
Nov 20 2017 // Where Every Employee Is an Owner As one employee stated: “This is not a great place to work — Gibson is the BEST place to work.” That’s the sentiment expressed by numerous employees at Indiana-based...
Best Agencies to Work For Southeast: LassiterWare – Gold
Nov 20 2017 // LassiterWare employee praise of the agency they say is the Best to Work for in the Southeast increased so much this year, the company was selected as Insurance Journal’s 2017 Best Agency to Work For Gold Award winner...
Best Agencies to Work For West: LP Insurance – Gold
Nov 20 2017 // When people use the word “connected,” they’re typically referring to the cool vastness of cyberspace, where they can surf the web, send and receive email or Facebook with one another. Often regarded as...
Best Agencies to Work For: Morris & Garritano – Overall Winner
Nov 20 2017 // It’s no easy feat to survive as a small business let alone to survive and thrive after 132 years in operation. That’s what Morris & Garritano (M&G) — winner of Insurance Journal’s 2017 Best...
Deal Activity on Record Pace: MarshBerry
Nov 20 2017 // Deal count is on record pace for the first nine months of 2017 (year-to-date, Sept. 30, 2017). There were 357 transactions during this period. By comparison, 334 transactions closed during the same year-to-date period in...
Tech Tips to Reach Millennials: Tech Talk
Nov 20 2017 // Independent agents are slowly accepting the fact that they need to reach out to millennials more effectively. Much of the generation that is now between the ages of 20-36 is entering its prime earning years and starting...
How Surety Bonds Impact Contractor and Agent Relationships
Nov 20 2017 // Even though the surety industry is only a fraction of the total property/casualty marketplace, the importance of surety bonds to contractors and their impact on their relationship with insurance brokers is significant. A...
Rebating Laws Should Not Apply to Broker Fee Agreements
Nov 20 2017 // A negotiated retail broker agreement is a contract between a retail producer and an insuranace buyer whereby the parties agree to a total package of services for a fee that takes account of the broker’s commission...
The Senior Care Market Still Going Strong
Nov 20 2017 // The aging U.S. population will create unprecedented demand for the senior living industry for decades to come and that opens the door for agents and brokers to grow their business in this sector. But understanding the...
Insurance Agents Make Gains to Organic Growth in Q2: Reagan
Nov 20 2017 // Insurance agencies and brokerage firms reported that their organic growth rebounded to 4.6 percent in the second quarter of 2017, a reversal from the 3.9 percent reported in the first quarter, which was the weakest growth...
Disaster Planning for Agencies: Minding Your Business
Nov 20 2017 // Northern California and specifically Sonoma and Napa Counties have experienced the worst wildfires in the history of California. Most of these fires began around Oct. 8, 2017, during night with extremely high winds, that...
Allstate Sues Former Agent Over EA Agreement in Mass. Federal Court
Nov 20 2017 // Allstate is suing one of its former agents in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging the agent breached a one-year non-compete clause by misusing Allstate’s confidential information...
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Nov 20 2017 // S.S. Nesbitt & Co. Inc., a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc. (EBSCO), has appointed insurance veteran Paul Barber as president. Barber comes to S.S. Nesbitt after having spent 25 years...
