Latest Agencies Headlines
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Congratulations Top Agencies
Aug 3 2015 // This year marks the 11th annual publication of Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Agencies special report. While there have been many agencies to make the Top 100 year-over-year there also are many newcomers each year and a...
Olson to Lead the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia as CEO
Jul 31 2015 // Betsy K. Olson was appointed chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia after a unanimous vote of its Board of Directors on July 29, 2015. Olson will take the reins on September 1. “Betsy...
MetLife Defends Dual Roles for Retirement Brokers
Jul 31 2015 // MetLife Inc. said its dual roles of offering retirement products and advising customers are threatened by a U.S. Labor Department proposal that was designed to make sure savers’ interests are put...
ACE Names North America Management Team for New Chubb
Jul 28 2015 // ACE Limited, which announced plans to acquire Chubb for $28 billion earlier this month, has designated a post-merger leadership team for the North American Insurance operations of the combined company. The North America...
Miami Agent Arrested for Stealing More than $80K from Clients
Jul 28 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud has announced the arrest of Mandy Rodriguez, 35, on felony fraud and grand theft charges after an investigation revealed that Rodriguez, a...
Cal Fire Captain, Insurance Agent Brother Arrested For Insurance Fraud
Jul 27 2015 // A California Fire captain and his insurance agent brother have been arrested for insurance fraud. Neal Moriarty, 38, a Cal Fire Captain, and Ross Moriarty, 42, a licensed insurance agent, were arrested last week on...
Former California Agent Ordered to Pay Restitution for Premium Theft
Jul 24 2015 // Christopher Emery, 33, of Downey, Calif. formerly a licensed insurance broker doing business as CPE Insurance Services, has plead guilty to seven felony counts of grand theft for stealing insurance premiums. Emery...
New Chubb Will Preserve Old Chubb’s Agency Culture, Says ACE’s Greenberg
Jul 23 2015 // The new company formed as a result of ACE Limited’s acquisition of The Chubb Corp. will continue the Chubb practices that have made it a favorite among independent insurance agents, ACE CEO Evan Greenberg has...
How AIG Is Using Cyber Intelligence to Protect Property from Cyber Attacks
Jul 22 2015 // A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S. had people across the country thinking one thing: cyber-attack. It wasn’t,...
Louisiana Public Agencies Accept Nearly $250M in BP Settlements
Jul 21 2015 // Public agencies in the New Orleans area have accepted about a quarter-billion dollars from BP for economic losses resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports the Southeast...
Hanover Enhances Fidelity, Crime Coverage
Jul 21 2015 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has launched a new Fidelity & Crime Advantage coverage program offered within its management liability portfolio. The coverage provides businesses with an enhanced product suite to...
How Agents View Agency Aggregators
Jul 21 2015 // About a quarter of independent insurance agents say they work at a firm that belongs to an aggregator cluster. But very few whose agencies don’t already belong to an aggregator want their firms to join one, a fact...
Insurance Association to Hold 45th Annual Convention and South Florida’s Largest Insurance Trade Fair
Jul 21 2015 // The convention will run from August 5-9 at the Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood with the Trade Fair on Friday, August 8th. Miami, FL, June 21 2015—Over 1,000 insurance agency owners, brokers, agents, customer service...
Zywave Acquires Insurance Agency Digital Marketing Firm Intygral (Astonish)
Jul 20 2015 // Insurance software provider Zywave said it has completed the asset purchase of Intygral, formerly Astonish, a provider of automated marketing for property/casualty personal lines brokers. Terms of the transaction were not...
Breckenridge Insurance Services Adds Regional Vice President Patricia Berry and Two Vice President Brokers
Jul 20 2015 // Pictured left to right: Patricia Berry, Chris Holmes, Paul Hamilton Atlanta, GA, July 20, 2015 — Breckenridge Insurance Services, a leading specialty wholesale commercial brokerage firm, has added three brokers with...
Nevada School District to Settle Insurance Broker Suit for $1.65M
Jul 20 2015 // The Clark County School District in Nevada says it will pay a former insurance broker $1.65 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the public agency ended the broker’s contract prematurely. Business Benefits Inc....
California Agents Get Creative to Sell Rideshare Endorsement
Jul 20 2015 // Kathy Lamm, an insurance agent in Costa Mesa, Calif., over the past month or two has been busy selling a ridesharing endorsement that Farmers Insurance Group introduced in California in late May. Lamm started spreading the...
Utah Agent Sentenced to Prison and $1.3M in Restitution
Jul 20 2015 // Utah insurance agent Brent Hilton was sentenced to serve one to 15 years in prison and has been taken into custody from the Third District Court in West Jordan. Hilton in July pled guilty to one count of a pattern of...
New Regulatory Guidance Affects Insurers, Producers
Jul 20 2015 // detailed illustration of a compass with Cyber Security text, eps10 vector Producers, brokers and insurers are all targeted by cyber attackers looking for personal identifiable information (PII) that can be used to open...
Arizona Supreme Court Ruling May Expose Agents to Lawsuits
Jul 17 2015 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling may expose agents who write auto policies to malpractice lawsuits if they are accused of failing to inform their customers about uninsured and underinsured motorists coverage – even with a...
