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Willis UK Awarded Chartered Status by CII
Mar 1 2013 // Willis Group Holdings announced that its UK business has been awarded the prestigious “Chartered Insurance Brokers” status by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). Willis said the designation is “an...
AssuredPartners Promotes Vredenburg to EVP, Chief Acquisition Officer
Feb 28 2013 // AssuredPartners Inc. has promoted Paul Vredenburg to the new role of executive vice president and chief acquisition officer. In his new position, Vredenburg will work to expand the AssuredPartners national footprint...
Arc Legal Partners with Rent4sure for Online Claims Reporting for Landlords
Feb 28 2013 // The UK’s Arc Legal Assistance announced that it has been appointed by real estate agents Rent4sure to “provide a range of comprehensive Managing Agents and Residential Landlord Legal Expenses and Rent...
PCG Agencies Named Travelers’ Midwest Personal Lines Agency of Year
Feb 27 2013 // PCG Agencies Inc., a personal property/casualty insurance and risk management firm headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., has been named Travelers’ Midwest Personal Insurance Agency of the Year. PCG Agencies was chosen...
Wholesale Broker All Risks Promotes Thompson in Atlanta
Feb 26 2013 // Wholesale insurance broker All Risks Ltd. has promoted Andrew Thompson to senior vice president for brokerage of the Atlanta office. Thompson has been a part of the All Risks team for 11 years. Prior to joining All Risks,...
Project CAP Selects EZLynx for Real-Time Pricing on Updated Consumer Site
Feb 26 2013 // The independent insurance agents’ online service for insurance buyers, Project CAP, has selected EZLynx to be the key real-time rating technology partner for its enhanced TrustedChoice.com website. The EZLynx Rating...
How Process Improvement Drives Agency Profitability
Feb 26 2013 // To boost their profitability, agencies make investments all the time in people and technology, as well as in other businesses through acquisitions. But Dan Epstein, CEO of ReSourcePro, says there is another often...
Trusted Choice Grants Support Texas Volunteer Fire Departments
Feb 25 2013 // The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office announced that Texas independent insurance agents, who operate in their communities under the Trusted Choice brand, have created a grant program for volunteer fire departments...
Illinois Firms Must Verify License, Insurance Status of Temp Agencies
Feb 25 2013 // The state of Illinois is reminding businesses using temporary workers that it is their responsibility to check whether those temp agencies are licensed and insured. The Illinois Department of Labor says businesses and...
MarketScout Wholesale Launches E&O Program for Independent Agents
Feb 25 2013 // MarketScout Wholesale (MSW) has formed an exclusive independent agents errors & omissions program. In addition to professional liability, this program provides data breach/privacy protection as well as proactive risk...
How Agents Help Nonprofits in Hard Times
Feb 25 2013 // Still struggling through the recession, the last thing the nonprofit sector needed is the negative publicity generated by Jerry Sandusky and Lance Armstrong. The recession was hard on just about everyone, particularly the...
New Jersey’s Consolidated Insurance Agents Hires Field Sales Manager
Feb 25 2013 // Consolidated Insurance Agents LLC, a network of independently owned and operated insurance agencies in New Jersey, hired Jocelyn Rineer as field sales manager. Rineer comes to Consolidated from E&K Agency Inc. of...
BrokersLink Chairman: ‘Independent Brokers Can Become Global Powerhouses’
Feb 25 2013 // Speaking at the 1st Asia Insurance Brokers’ Summit in Singapore, José Fonseca, Chairman of BrokersLink and CEO of the MDS Group, told delegates that independent brokers can become the powerhouses of the global...
Building Updates: Aging Electrical Systems
Feb 25 2013 // The Agent’s Role as Advisor and Risk Manager Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series to explain insurers’ requirements for building updates and to help agents advise clients on mitigating...
Former Utah Agent Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Feb 25 2013 // Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling...
North Carolina’s Goodwin: Home, Auto, Health and More…
Feb 25 2013 // Interview with Recently Re-Elected Insurance Commissioner Recently re-elected North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is more focused on reform of the homeowners insurance market than he is on auto insurance....
Business Moves – Midwest
Feb 25 2013 // Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance Agency Three Minnesota insurance agencies — Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud — have joined forces to become...
Business Moves – South Central
Feb 25 2013 // Monster Insurance, OneBeacon Insurance MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, announced that MarketScout subsidiary, Monster Insurance, entered into an agreement...
Agency Compensation Playbook: Who’s Worth What?
Feb 25 2013 // 2013 Agency Salary Survey Managing sales in an independent agency is a team sport. From top level managers to office and support staff – every person in an agency has a role to play in helping the agency win the sales...
Customers Want What Local Agents Provide
Feb 25 2013 // Sometimes, independent insurance agents can get too sophisticated for their own good. I was reminded of this recently. My agency is fairly large, and I like to think that it is on the cutting-edge in many areas, such as...
