Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Louisiana Insurance Agent Gets Prison in Fraud Case
Apr 29 2011 // A 67-year-old Plaquemine, La., insurance agent has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for mail fraud that cost several of his insurance clients nearly $1.4 million. U.S. District Judge Brian A....
The Future of the Independent Agency (Has Nothing to Do with Age)
Apr 29 2011 // For the last 20 years, at least, consultants, associations and publications have been worrying about the future of the independent agency system because the average age of agency owners has been in the late 50s. The same...
New York Agents Want Say in State Health Exchange
Apr 29 2011 // Insurance agents in the Empire State are calling on lawmakers to ensure that brokers and producers have a role in the creation of the state-based health exchange mandated by federal health care reform. Those calls come...
Lloyd’s Market Association Questions Aspects of FSA Regulatory Reform
Apr 29 2011 // In a response to the proposals to restructure the UK’s financial regulations the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has taken issue with some of the proposals, which, in its view are “over-engineered”...
Markel Programs, Burns & Wilcox Partner to Offer Real Estate E&O Program
Apr 28 2011 // Markel has partnered with Burns & Wilcox to offer a Real Estate Errors & Omissions program to a range of residential and commercial real estate industry accounts. This Markel Programs/Burns & Wilcox product...
Young Agents Survey Shows Strong Family Ties
Apr 28 2011 // Bryan Hanes grew up in the family business listening to stories about life in a small town. He heard his grandfather and then father sharing cheerful conversations with local towns folk about personal relationships, local...
Brodbeck Named Trusted Choice Hometown Hero in Texas
Apr 28 2011 // The Indpendent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Randy Brodbeck of the Adams Insurance Agency in Johnson City as its newest Trusted Choice Hometown Hero. The Hometown Hero program recognizes Trusted Choice...
Lockton Dubai Names Dawes Specialist Financial Lines Broker
Apr 28 2011 // Lockton in Dubai announced the appointment of Neil Dawes as a specialist financial lines broker providing (re)insurance and risk management expertise to clients in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. He has...
XS Brokers Hires Finneran
Apr 27 2011 // XS Brokers Insurance Agency has added David Finneran to the firm’s professional lines practice. Finneran most recently worked with DeCotis Insurance Associates and The Keating Group before joining Quincy,...
Spring Flooding Renews Concerns over Flood Program
Apr 27 2011 // For agents across much of the Northeast, the last month has brought spates of spring flooding and storms ā and has served as a reminder for what is poised to become a political battle this year over frequent lapses and...
McLaren Group Selects Aon as Global Broker
Apr 26 2011 // Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon Corp., in the UK, has been appointed the global insurance broker for the McLaren Group. It will be responsible for both the Group’s Formula 1 team,...
Tennessee Insurance Agents Win Investigation Protections, Lower Fines
Apr 26 2011 // Tennessee insurance agents who come under investigation by the state will enjoy some new due process protections and face lower financial penalties if found in violation of any laws under a measure just signed into...
Ohio Plans May 5 Switch to Electronic Licensing System
Apr 25 2011 // Ohio insurance regulators will soon make a switch to an electronic system for agent licensing. Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Director of the Department of Insurance Mary Taylor said transition to the new system will begin...
Georgia Passes Bill Regulating Insurance Certificates
Apr 25 2011 // Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is expected to sign into law a bill requiring that certificate of insurance forms be filed with and approved by the state insurance commissioner. Agent groups and insurance companies have had...
Florida Agents Group Names Ray Communications Director
Apr 22 2011 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents announced Susan Ray has joined the association as director of communications. Ray brings nearly two decades of communications experience. She previously served as director of...
Young Agents look for opportunity… and a future
Apr 20 2011 // Come along for a ride with me… or better yet, join me for a cup of coffee in my office, as we discuss articles from the April 4th issue of Insurance Journal magazine about Young Agents and the industry’s...
Keystone Group Adds Four Tennessee Agencies
Apr 19 2011 // Keystone Insurers Group is expanding its presence in Tennessee by teaming up with four new franchise partners. E.B. Thom & Sons, McIntire & Associates Insurance Inc., Porch-Stribling-Webb Inc. and Art E. Gernt have...
Premier Group Insurance to Enter New States and Expand Operations – Appoints Rex Hickling as President
Apr 19 2011 // Denver, April 19 2011 ā Premier Group Insurance, Inc. announced today the further expansion of its agency Property & Casualty group of more than 100 licensed agents into additional targeted states in the West....
Hagerty Marine Announces Broker Program in Canada
Apr 18 2011 // Hagerty Classic Marine has created a broker referral program for its Canadian product. This move will allow brokers in Canada to refer collector boat insurance clients and receive commission for new and renewal business....
MLR Dramatically Impacting Commissions, Agents Tell Regulators
Apr 18 2011 // “The impact of the medical loss ratio has been dramatic on the agents and brokers in this country and it was dramatic immediately.” That’s a quote from Beth Ashmore, an independent insurance agency owner...
