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Former Alfa Agent Named Alabama Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Feb 15 2023 // Larry Chapman Jr., recently an agent with Alfa Insurance, is the new deputy insurance commissioner for Alabama. The state Department of Insurance announced that Chapman will fill the spot left vacant by Mark Fowler, who...
BMS Acquires Spanish Broker Viafina, a Surety Insurance Specialist
Feb 14 2023 // BMS, the London-based independent specialty re/insurance broker, announced that BMS Iberia has signed a deal to acquire Seguros Viafina (Viafina), the Spanish specialty insurance and reinsurance broker. The acquisition is...
Risk Strategies Acquires High-Net Worth Broker Bullen Group
Feb 13 2023 // National specialty insurance broker Risk Strategies reports it has acquired Bullen Insurance Group, a national specialist focused on high-net-worth families, individuals and their businesses. Bullen operates five offices...
Howden’s Aston Lark to Acquire UK Broker Allegiance Insure
Feb 13 2023 // Aston Lark, a Howden company, announced it has agreed terms to acquire the independent broker Allegiance Insure Ltd. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. London-based Allegiance Insure was established by...
Independent Insurance Agents of Texas Endorses CISR Designation
Feb 13 2023 // Austin, TX., February 14, 2023 –– The Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) designation provided by The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research is now endorsed by the Independent Insurance...
Unlicensed California Insurance Agent Sentenced for Stealing $140K from Business Owners
Feb 10 2023 // Robert Meseer, 69, of Westminster, California, was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to 55 felony counts of grand theft, insurance fraud and forgery. Meseer was sentenced to three years of supervised formal...
Brothers in Fraud: Carolina Insurance Agents Plead Guilty to Ponzi Scheme Charges
Feb 9 2023 // Two brothers, longtime insurance agents in Whiteville, North Carolina, are on their way to several years in prison after pleading guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded friends, family and other members of the...
Highstreet Partners Adds 2 Pennsylvania Agencies
Feb 6 2023 // Michigan-based independent insurance agency Highstreet Insurance Partners reports it has acquired two Pennsylvania insurance agencies: Lock Haven-based Davis Insurance Agency and Bensalem-based Michael Pigott Agency. Both...
Amwins Global Risks Acquires UK Broker Roberts Armytage & Partners
Feb 3 2023 // Amwins Global Risks, the London-based international arm of global specialty insurance broker Amwins, announced the acquisition of Roberts Armytage & Partners (RAP), the specialist, energy and marine-focused London...
Hackers of ION Trading Also Hit UK Postal Service, Canada Hospital, U.S. Local Agencies
Feb 3 2023 // The hacking group behind a cyberattack against the software firm ION Trading UK has recently conducted a series of breaches throughout the world, with its victims including the UK’s postal service and local...
Freddie Mac Accepts KBRA Ratings, Giving Fla. Agents, Mortgagees More Options
Feb 2 2023 // Freddie Mac, one of two mortgage-buying companies that buttress the U.S. home-lending market, has agreed to accept the Kroll Bond Rating Agency as a rating firm for homeowners’ insurance companies. “We have...
Bridger Insurance Services and AgentSync Pioneer Operational Efficiencies
Jan 30 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance is a highly regulated industry, and, with a producer workforce that’s turning over as a generation retires and signs over their businesses, reducing...
How Agentsync Helps Insurance Producers and Adjusters Manage Carrier Requirements for Paper Licensing
Jan 24 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance agents want to get paid for the products they sell. They’ll ultimately choose to partner with the insurance carriers that get commissions paid quickly...
Wholesale Broker Socius Acquires New York’s Kelly Underwriting
Jan 19 2023 // San Francisco-based wholesale insurance brokerage Socius Insurance Services, Inc. has acquired the assets of Kelly Underwriting Services, a Farmingdale, New York based managing general underwriter. Led by Tom Nash, Kelly...
Gallagher Acquires Retail Broker First Ireland Risk Management in Dublin
Jan 18 2023 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Dublin, Ireland-based First Ireland Risk Management Limited, a retail insurance broker offering commercial and personal insurance products as well as life and pension products...
Acrisure Acquires Affinity Brokers in Scotland
Jan 18 2023 // Acrisure, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based insurance broker and fintech specialist, has acquired Affinity Brokers Limited, a commercial insurance broker based in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 2010 by Scott Meechan and...
Canada’s Westland Insurance Acquires Broker RiskTech From Excel
Jan 17 2023 // Westland Insurance announced that it has acquired the Edmonton brokerage RiskTech Insurance Services as of January 1. Risk Tech was a member of Excel Insurance Group. It specializes in serving large and mid-market...
Former California Insurance Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $90K
Jan 13 2023 // Sally Nava Kanarek, 76, of Huntington Beach, was arrested this week on multiple felony counts of financial elder abuse, grand theft of an elder, and forgery after a California Department of Insurance investigation found...
Northwest Arkansas Insurance Agent Dies in Plane Crash
Jan 12 2023 // Arkansas insurance agent Brant Barnes died in a Jan. 6 plane crash in Washington County. Barnes, 43-years old of Tontitown, was the lone occupant in the Beech, M35, fixed wing, single engine aircraft when it crashed off of...
France’s Verlingue Buys Broker Cabinet Depeyre and MGA Depeyre Solutions
Jan 12 2023 // French broker Verlingue, a subsidiary of Adelaïde Group and specialist in corporate protection, is continuing its external growth strategy with two new acquisitions that will consolidate its presence in the Grand Est...
