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E&O Insights: What Could Go Wrong When Insuring Habitational?
Nov 4 2013 // Insuring habitational risks has generated more than its fair share of errors and omissions (E&O) claims. While there are a host of issues, consider these specific ones: valuation, ordinance or law coverage and...
Two Legacy Network Executives in Idaho Sentenced
Nov 4 2013 // The former founder and chairman of the board of The Legacy Network, an insurance brokerage agency in Rexburg, Idaho, and his son were sentenced in October in United States District Court in Pocatello. The sentencing was...
Eyeing Affluent Market, Crestbrook Ready to Launch
Nov 4 2013 // Well-to-do residents and their insurance agents can soon look forward to another option when it comes to protecting their assets. Crestbrook Insurance has selected what is essentially a start-up insurance company focusing...
R-T Specialty to Buy Wholesale Broker Westrope
Nov 1 2013 // Chicago-based national wholesale insurance broker R-T Specialty said it has agreed to merge with another wholesale broker Westrope, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Westrope has a national presence with concentrations in...
Maryland’s Chesapeake Employers: Business as Usual for Policyholders, Agents
Nov 1 2013 // Maryland’s largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance and the insurer of last resort adopted a new name and a new corporate structure in October. The 99-year-old Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund...
Rusbuldt on McKinsey 5: Where Will Agents Really Be in 5 to 10 Years?
Nov 1 2013 // Bob Rusbuldt, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America – the Big “I”- takes issue with a McKinsey report that claims local independent agents will soon be extinct. In this...
Bolt Solutions Acquires Online Aggregator Superior Access (SAIS)
Oct 31 2013 // Bolt Solutions Inc., which provides property/casualty insurance online distribution and comparative rating platforms, has acquired Austin, Texas based Superior Access Insurance Services Inc. (SAIS), which it says is the...
Rusbuldt on McKinsey 4: Trusted Choice, CAP as Part of Agents’ Internet Strategy
Oct 31 2013 // Bob Rusbuldt, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America – the Big “I”- takes issue with a McKinsey report that claims local independent agents will soon be extinct. In this...
The Ins and Outs of Buying and Selling Insurance Agencies
Oct 30 2013 // Buyer demand for available independent agencies is greater than the supply and it’s been that way for years, according to Rick Bondurant, director of management services for the Independent Insurance Agents of...
Good Alignment Between All Parties Benefits Insurance Agency Buyout
Oct 30 2013 // Situation: A majority partner wants to sell the agency; the rest of the partners don’t. What to do? Gaylon Brown and his partners had that problem last year. When he received a marketing email from Carmel, Ind.-based...
5 CAA Members Elected to Kansas Agent Association Leadership Positions
Oct 30 2013 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), based in Austin, Texas, announced that five of its members/agents were elected to leadership positions with the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents (KAIA). CAA member Bob Wood,...
CPro Associates Adds Morris, Arsenault in Dallas Brokerage Unit
Oct 30 2013 // CPro Associates, a Dallas- based surplus lines wholesaler and managing general agency, has expanded its brokerage department with the addition of Gay Morris and Stephanie Arsenault. Morris previously worked at RISC in...
Florida Agent Charged with Forging Forms for Mitigation Credits
Oct 30 2013 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of Leon Mobley, 45, a licensed insurance agent in Wellington, for allegedly submitting false and forged wind mitigation verification inspection forms on...
Rusbuldt on McKinsey 3: Don’t Ignore Trends Favoring Independent Agents
Oct 30 2013 // Bob Rusbuldt, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America – the Big “I”- takes issue with a McKinsey report that claims local independent agents will soon be extinct. In this...
ProWriters Launches Small Business Online Quoting Platform
Oct 29 2013 // ProWriters is now providing agents and brokers access to online quoting and binding for small business professional liability insurance with general liability and/or a business owners policy (BOP). Quotes for small...
Rusbuldt on McKinsey 2: Agent-Carrier Relationships Make a Difference
Oct 29 2013 // Bob Rusbuldt, president and CEO of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America – the Big “I”- takes issue with a McKinsey report that claims local independent agents will soon be extinct. In this...
Marsh & McLennan Climbs to Post-Spitzer High
Oct 28 2013 // Marsh & McLennan Cos., the biggest insurance broker by market value, has climbed to a 9-year high, bouncing back from the plunge that followed then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s lawsuit against the...
Why McKinsey’s Prediction of Demise of Independent Agents Is ‘Dead Wrong’
Oct 28 2013 // A recent report from McKinsey & Co. had some bad news for local property/casualty insurance agents— many of them will be out of business within the next five to 10 years. McKinsey contends that “the economics...
Illinois Insurance Brokers Frustrated with Health Care Law
Oct 25 2013 // Insurance brokers in Illinois vented their frustrations recently with the troubled rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care law and the crippled federal website, HealthCare.gov. Dozens attended a meeting with...
Eyeing Affluent Market, Crestbrook Ready to Launch in Illinois
Oct 24 2013 // Well-to-do Illinois residents and their insurance agents can soon look forward to another option when it comes to protecting their assets. Crestbrook Insurance has selected Illinois for the launch of what is essentially a...
