Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
RISC Adds Staub, Anderson in Brokerage Department
Aug 31 2010 // Bryan Staub and Kelly Anderson have joined Dallas-based surplus lines insurance broker and managing general agent RISC Inc. in its brokerage department. Anderson has joined the firm as a senior associate. She has nine...
Keystone Adds Two Kentucky Agencies to Network
Aug 30 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group today announced the addition of two more franchisees to its growing list of partner agencies. Both are in Kentucky. Houk Insurance Agency of Horse Cave and Mountain Valley Insurance in Barbourville...
Wholesale Trading Co-Op Launches to Serve Large Brokers
Aug 27 2010 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) and one of its co-founders John Hahn and industry investor Jeff Cappel, announced the formation of Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services LLC (WTC), a boutique wholesale...
IA&B Groups Elects New Officers and Directors
Aug 27 2010 // The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors. Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in...
Former Ohio Agent Convicted on Theft Charges
Aug 27 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced that former insurance agent Jamie Smith of Bowling Green, Ohio, has been convicted on one count of felony theft in the Lucas County Court of Common...
P/C Insurance Brokers Profitable Despite Tough Economy, Soft Pricing
Aug 25 2010 // It takes more than a bad economy and declining prices to weaken property/casualty insurance brokers. Moody’s Investors Service says in its new Industry Scorecard report that the insurance brokerage sector remains...
Data Concerns – Small Agencies in Small Towns
Aug 25 2010 // For the past two weeks I have been discussing challenges faced by small agencies in small towns. This week I want to begin the discussion about various solutions I have seen these agencies us that have aided them in...
6 Ways Agents Fail Their Workers’ Comp Customers
Aug 25 2010 // Like most agents, you work hard at writing new accounts, what salespeople through the years have referred to as “getting the fish in the boat.” But it doesn’t take a master angler to know that once you...
Florida Agents Group Appoints New Board Members
Aug 25 2010 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents has appointed three new members to its Board of Directors. The appointments were made during FAIA’s 106th Anniversary Convention and Education Symposium. “The FAIA...
Louisiana Wants More Disaster Loans Forgiven by Feds
Aug 24 2010 // One in five of the Louisiana sheriffs, school boards, parish councils and other storm-ravaged local government agencies who borrowed federal funds after hurricanes Katrina and Rita won’t have to repay a dime of the...
M&A Wrap Up: Year-over-Year, M&A Activity Sustains a Moderate Pace
Aug 24 2010 // Insurance brokerage deals in the second quarter of 2010 barely bested the number of deals during the second quarter of 2009 bringing year-over-year activity slightly ahead of last. Forty-six transactions were announced...
Insurance Journal Seeks Nominations for Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 24 2010 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is once again on the lookout for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope...
Connecticut Suit Against Ratings Agencies May Proceed
Aug 23 2010 // Lawsuits by the Connecticut Attorney General accusing three credit ratings agencies with giving artificially low credit ratings to municipalities can proceed in a Connecticut state court, a judge ruled. In a ruling made...
Judges Reopen Portions of Bid-Rigging Civil Suit
Aug 20 2010 // A decision by a federal court in Philadelphia has reopened some of the racketeering and antitrust lawsuits that were dismissed three years ago against insurers and brokers who allegedly participated in a bid-rigging scheme...
Employee-Owned Insurance Brokerage Opens Akron Office
Aug 19 2010 // Ohio’s oldest independent and largest employee-owned risk management and insurance brokerage firm has opened an office in Akron. Oswald Companies serves more than 50 clients collectively in Akron and...
Goss Re Names Brock as CEO; Fox as VP, Senior Broker
Aug 19 2010 // Scott Brock has been appointed as CEO of Goss Reinsurance Brokers Inc., the reinsurance brokerage division of U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. Brock will work with Chris Turner, president of Goss Re, to provide highly...
8 Traits Top 100 Agencies Have in Common
Aug 19 2010 // Over the course of the past decade, our firm, C. R. Ekern & Co. has worked closely with over 25 percent of the Insurance Journal Top 100 Agencies. Providing either sales training, leadership training, or consulting to...
Solutions Agency Culture Issues – Small Agencies In Small Towns
Aug 18 2010 // In my previous post “Insights Into Agency Cultures – Small Agencies in Small Town” I discussed some of the cultural challenges these firms face. Some owners of these firms recognize that they have issues....
How to Establish an Agency Growth Culture
Aug 18 2010 // Why is agency growth important? Agents and brokers are faced with a continued economic downturn combined with sustained soft market conditions; insurance companies continue to tier agents based on future growth;...
H. Linwood Insurance Appoints Novy Senior Broker
Aug 17 2010 // H. Linwood Insurance Services Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., has named Terri Novy a senior broker. She has five years of insurance industry experious, having previously worked as a broker for State Farm Insurance.
