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Ganis Consulting Now a Part of Astonish Results
Apr 22 2010 // Warwick, RI – April 22, 2010 – Astonish Results is proud to announce the addition of Ganis Consulting as part of their insurance marketing and web services team. Ganis Consulting is an insurance agency...
Ganis Consulting Joins Astonish Results’ Insurance Marketing Team
Apr 22 2010 // Astonish Results has added Ganis Consulting to its insurance marketing and Web services team. Ganis Consulting is an insurance agency consultancy and business brokerage that helps agencies across the country with agency...
Divinsky Joins Momentous Insurance Brokerage as Account Executive
Apr 20 2010 // Momentous Insurance Brokerage Inc. of Van Nuys, Calif., has announced that Marifel Divinsky, former senior account manager from USI of Southern California, has joined the company as an account executive. Divinsky has more...
Many Insurance Professionals on Fantasy Island
Apr 20 2010 // Many insurance industry professionals are living in a dream. Their fantasy is that the soft market is ending, but nothing could be further from the truth. As long as our economy stays weak, the soft market will continue. A...
New York Agents’ Groups Join Forces to Fight Pay Disclosure Rules
Apr 20 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New York (IIABNY) and the Council of Insurance Brokers of Greater New York (CIBGNY) say they will team up to sue the state over new rules that will require agents to disclose...
How to Keep Employees Happy
Apr 19 2010 // One way that agency owners can keep their employees happy in today’s tough times is by making their compensation more accountable to agency growth. Al Diamond, president of the Agency Consulting Group, says in...
The Rollercoaster of M&A
Apr 19 2010 // Continued Soft Market, Taxes and Health Care Reform to Boost Activity in Second Half of 2010 January deal activity started out strong but continued to decline in February and further in March. Nonetheless, first quarter...
Wholesale Insurance Brokers AmWINS, Colemont Merge
Apr 19 2010 // AmWINS Group, Inc. and Colemont Insurance Brokers announced that the two companies will be combined to form a specialty insurance distributor placing more than $4.8 billion in annual premiums with more than 1,800 employees...
Salary Blues
Apr 19 2010 // Agency Salary Reveals Who’s Worth What, State of Stff Morals Independent agency salaries maintained or decreased slightly in 2009, but employee morale may be registering at an all time low. And agents don’t...
Calif. Proposes Agent/Broker Regs to Alleviate Under-Insurance
Apr 19 2010 // To alleviate concerns about homeowner under-insurance, the California Department of Insurance has scheduled a hearing for May 17 in Los Angeles to discuss proposed regulations governing standards and training for...
E&O Insights: Dangers of Renewing Business Interruption Coverage ‘As Is’
Apr 19 2010 // Understand Where Property Coverage Ends and BI Coverage Begins It would probably be rather difficult to find many agents unaware of business interruption coverage. Most recognize that for their business customers, business...
The Other Time Element Coverages
Apr 19 2010 // Off-Premises, Contingent Business Income and Other Time Element Options for Clients The impact of recent high-profile natural catastrophes has brought to the forefront the need for businesses to have appropriate time...
People
Apr 19 2010 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT), recently named Fred Pecina and Jeremy Sandusky partners in the agency. Pecina is based in the firm’s Ft. Worth office, and Sandusky works in MHBT’s Dallas office. Pecina,...
Perfect Storm Brings Opportunities in Covering Health Care Providers
Apr 19 2010 // Health Care Reform Opens Doors for New Exposures and Markets Those in the business of providing liability coverage to doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, may have just found themselves in a perfect storm...
People
Apr 19 2010 // Central Insurance Companies of Van Wert, Ohio, announced the retirements of Michael E. Thompson and George J. Gress. Additionally, Central promoted Jana L. Ringwald to vice president of Commercial Underwriting for its...
Lockton: Soft Market Pricing Continues to Benefit Insurance Buyers
Apr 19 2010 // Commercial insurance buyers continue to benefit from lower prices and steady or increasing insurance capacity in property/casualty markets, reports the nation’s largest insurance broker. In its newly published...
Keystone Insurers’ Kentucky Derby and Where It’s Going Next
Apr 19 2010 // Pennsylvania-based insurance agency franchisor Keystone Insurers Group has more than 200 agency owner-partners and it’s not done yet, says Colin Buzzard, Keystone’s executive vice president of sales and...
Scanlon, Guerra, Burker Insurance Brokers Adds Russell as Senior VP
Apr 16 2010 // Scanlon, Guerra, Burke Insurance Brokers of Woodland Hills, Calif., announced that it is becoming the master broker for California’s exclusive workers’ compensation self-insured group of home improvement and...
New York City Agents Vow Suit over Compensation Rules
Apr 16 2010 // A trade group for New York City insurance agents says it is launching a legal challenge against the state’s insurance department over new rules that would require agents to disclose their pay to customers. Directors...
St. James Insurance Group Re-Enters Commercial Lines, Appoints New SVP
Apr 15 2010 // St. James Insurance Group, based in Orlando, Fla., has re-entered the commercial lines business after a five year absence. The program manager has appointed Dave Stricker, former senior vice president of All Risks Ltd., to...
