Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2017 Agents of the Year
Dec 18 2017 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s inaugural Agents of the Year report. This report features 10 agents who define what it means to be a successful independent agent today. These agents are more than top sellers. While...
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Dec 18 2017 // Elephant Insurance, a direct-to consumer insurance specialist, has selected Alberto Schiavon as its new CEO. Founded in 2009, Elephant is a direct-to-consumer insurance company offering auto, home, motorcycle and life...
6 Industry Trends to Exploit for 2018
Dec 18 2017 // To prepare for the future, business owners need to observe what trends are occurring and then evaluate how those trends could impact their business. It is a guessing game, but an educated guess is usually proven to be...
How Commercial Insurance Customers Rate Large Carriers, Brokers
Dec 18 2017 // Overall customer satisfaction with large commercial insurers increased in 2017, driven primarily by insurers’ focus on more tailored and diversified products for their customers. That’s according to the J.D....
Michigan Insurance Agent Sentenced for Embezzling $800K from Clients
Dec 15 2017 // A suburban Detroit insurance agent has been sentenced to at least six years in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 from a dozen elderly clients. Paul Garceau Jr. of Grosse Pointe Park had pleaded guilty to...
What to Know About the Senior Care Market
Dec 13 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...
UK’s Bretton Woods International Gets UK Regulatory Nod, Becomes Lloyd’s Broker
Dec 13 2017 // Bretton Woods International (BWI), the specialist insurance broker and managing general agent, has received a license to operate in the UK as an independent broker and, at the same time, is now registered as a...
Engage the Millennials
Dec 11 2017 // This Lowdown provides you with a perspective on the report Insuring Millennials: The Most Underinsured Generation, a report added to the Carrier Management Research & Trends site this week. This report was written for...
Margraves Serves as President of the Independent Insurance Agents of Houston
Dec 11 2017 // Scott Margraves has been elected to serve as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Houston (IIAH) for a term that expires Aug. 31, 2018. Margraves is a commercial lines producer for TDECU Insurance Agency LLC....
How Commercial Insurance Customers Rate Large Carriers, Brokers
Dec 7 2017 // Overall customer satisfaction with large commercial insurers has increased in 2017, driven primarily by insurers’ focus on more tailored and diversified products for their customers. That’s according to the...
UK Broker THB Taps Durkan from Gallagher as Commercial & Placement Director
Dec 7 2017 // THB, the London-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the appointment of Declan Durkan as commercial and placement director, THB UK Risk Solutions, the combined fleet and commercial operation of THB...
Coalition, a Cyber Insurer and Cybersecurity Firm, Makes Its Debut
Dec 6 2017 // Coalition is making its formal debut into the cyber insurance space, but with a twist. The San Francisco-based startup is also a cybersecurity firm. Founded in March 2017, Coalition is co-founded by technology...
WSS Names Azer Senior Broker in California
Dec 5 2017 // Western Security Surplus has named Sherif Azer a senior broker in its Los Angeles, Calif. office. Azer’s focus will be commercial lines, property and liability with the placement of excess and surplus brokerage, and...
USI Completes Acquisition of Wells Fargo Commercial Insurance Business
Dec 4 2017 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing on its acquisition of Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA (WFIS), formerly part of Wells Fargo & Co. This purchase includes the commercial insurance brokerage and consulting,...
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...
