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Sep 18 2017 // Dallas-based insurance and risk management firm Dexter & Company has added Jeff Twitty to its team as senior vice president and promoted Stephen Bivins to vice president. A seasoned insurance professional with more...
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Sep 18 2017 // The Arbella Insurance Group, a Quincy, Mass.-headquartered regional property and casualty insurance company, has promoted Ellen Mann to assistant vice president of human resources. Reporting to Gayle O’Connell,...
Why Regulators Should Dump Anti-Rebating Laws
Sep 18 2017 // For the commercial property and casualty, and employee benefits segments of the insurance industry, anti-rebating laws are both nonsense and anti-consumer. Competition is intended to protect competitiveness in the...
Tech Talk: Speed-to-Value and the AI Revolution
Sep 18 2017 // The term “speed-to-value” has been around as a management maxim for decades but is being reborn in the digital age — and its application for agents today is perfectly timed. Here’s...
Brokers Keep Trucking Market Motoring Despite Insurer Exits
Sep 18 2017 // Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing 70.6 percent of all domestic freight transportation tonnage and $676 billion, or 79.8 percent,of transportation revenues in the country. Despite the...
INSUREtrust Adds Hoeflinger as Professional Lines Broker in Atlanta
Sep 15 2017 // INSUREtrust has added Hannah Hoeflinger to the company as Professional Lines broker. In this role, Hoeflinger will further grow INSUREtrust’s multi-city Cyber Boot Camps, build broker relations, and manage cyber,...
PIANY Elects Holender President, Names Directors and Officers
Sep 14 2017 // Professional Insurance Agents of New York Inc. has elected Fred Holender as president at an annual meeting of the association’s board of directors in Glenmont, N.Y. Holender is director of administration for Lawley...
Allianz Specialty Goes Live with ‘Insurtech’ for Small Business Brokers, Policyholders
Sep 14 2017 // Borrowing ideas from some insurtech startups, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty has a new platform for brokers and their Main Street customers “from barber shops to bakeries and toy stores to...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Welcomes Christopher David Harney as Partner/Senior Vice President
Sep 14 2017 // Woodland Hills, CA, September 14, 2017- The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers is proud to welcome Christopher David Harney as Partner/Senior Vice President in its Los Angeles office. He will join the leadership team and...
Specialty MGAs Continue to be Popular Acquisition Targets
Sep 14 2017 // With growth prospects becoming rarer in the continuing competitive insurance market, carriers are among three sets of buyers fueling a hot M&A environment for specialized managing general agencies, representatives of...
Hub Acquires Delisle Agencies of Canada
Sep 14 2017 // Global insurance broker Hub International Ltd. has acquired Delisle Agencies Ltd. of Delisle, Saskatchewan, Canada. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The family-owned Delisle Agencies specializes in personal...
Florida on Alert for AOB Abuse as Irma Recovery Begins
Sep 13 2017 // As Florida residents return home after being evacuated by Hurricane Irma, the pressure is on the insurance industry to keep a bad situation regarding assignment of benefits abuse in the state from getting worse. Florida...
Hub Acquires Insurance Broker Integro’s Canada Unit
Sep 12 2017 // Chicago-based global insurance broker Hub International Ltd. has acquired the Canadian unit of insurance broker Integro Ltd. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Integro Canada is a commercial property/casualty...
Los Angeles Agent Sentenced for Embezzling Over $100K
Sep 11 2017 // Suren Hovhannisyan, a former insurance agent, has been sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court to 180 days in jail and five years of formal probation after pleading no contest to three felony counts of Grand...
Insurance Agents & Brokers Announces Directors and Officers Elections
Sep 8 2017 // Membership of the independent insurance agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania recently held elections for volunteer and leadership positions, with terms that began Sept. 1. Larry Wilson of S.T....
New Texas Task Force Formed to Investigate Hurricane-Related Fraud
Sep 8 2017 // Federal prosecutors will lead a new Houston-based group created to help law enforcement agencies respond to an inevitable wave of fraud and other criminal activity set off by Harvey’s punishing rains. Authorities are...
Re/Insurance Broker BMS Launches Spain-Based BMS Iberia
Sep 6 2017 // BMS Group Ltd., the London-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the launch of a new European venture, BMS Iberia. The operation will be spearheaded by recently appointed directors Fernando Claro in...
Hylant Partners with Ohio and Michigan-Based Insurance Agencies
Sep 5 2017 // Hylant, based in Toledo, Ohio, has entered into a strategic partnership with Pinkney-Perry Insurance Agency Inc., one of the oldest and largest minority-owned insurance agencies in Ohio, and Camryn Insurance Service LLC, a...
Ex-Oklahoma Insurance Agent Told to Stop Conducting Insurance Business
Sep 5 2017 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak has issued a cease and desist order to a former insurance agent in Cushing. The Oklahoma Insurance Department reported that investigators discovered Mark Lauderdale, whose...
Mehrhoff Named Head of Broker Relations for Beazley’s North Central Region
Sep 5 2017 // Beazley, a provider of specialist insurance, has appointed Andrew Mehrhoff as head of broker relations – north central region. Mehrhoff will be based in the firm’s Chicago offices and will be responsible for...
