Latest Agencies Headlines
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The Face of Freakin’ Agency Marketing
Nov 15 2009 // Kool Prophet Promises Astonishing Results We come on down on a mission Your footloose town won’t even know you’re gone Our flying boombox was built to take you Up to teh stars wehre your groove belongs —No...
Insurance Agents Unhappy with House Healthcare Bill
Nov 15 2009 // The leaders of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIBA) are not pleased with the healthcare reform bill that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Agents are particularly opposed to the...
Louisiana Department of Insurance Cracks Down on Alexandria Agents
Nov 13 2009 // In separate actions the Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued cease and desist orders, and fine notices, to four individuals accused of inappropriately conducting the business of insurance in that state. A former...
New Chicago-Area Brokerage to Focus on Bonding, Environmental Risks
Nov 13 2009 // Programs and environmental insurance veteran David Blum announced the opening of D.S. Blum Inc., a wholesale insurance brokerage headquartered in suburban Chicago. The brokerage will focus on assisting small and mid-size...
Southern California Agents Pleads to Fraud
Nov 12 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner today announced that Edwin A. Flores, 33, of Long Beach pled guilty to one count of misdemeanor grand theft and was sentenced Nov. 5 to two years probation, 120 hours of...
Dean & Draper Insurance Acquires Two Texas Agencies
Nov 12 2009 // Houston’s Dean & Draper Insurance Agency LP announced it has acquired Wilco Insurance Agency Inc. and Always Safe Insurance Agency Inc. as part of an ongoing growth strategy for the Texas-based insurance...
Essentials: A Reminder on Managing Agency E&O Risk
Nov 11 2009 // I have been an insurance broker since 1974. However, my principal occupation is attorney, practicing in the field of insurance law. I have had many conversations with insurance agency managers, insurance agents and...
Louisiana: Agent Allegedly Provided Fake Proofs of Insurance
Nov 10 2009 // A Ville Platte, La., insurance agent has been issued a cease and desist order, summary suspension of his licenses and fine notice for allegedly providing fraudulent proofs of insurance. The Louisiana Department of...
Insurance Agents Hit House Health Bill As Bad for Small Business
Nov 9 2009 // The leaders of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIBA) are not pleased with the healthcare reform bill that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The group is particularly opposed to the...
Hub International Acquires Canada’s Mones Insurance Brokers
Nov 9 2009 // Chicago-based insurance broker Hub International Limited has acquired Mones & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc., one of the largest personal and commercial insurance brokers in western and northern Canada with...
Kronenberg Touts Innovation in Partnerships, Program Manager Role
Nov 6 2009 // Tony Campisi and Bill Kronenberg used to tease each other about merging their two Pennsylvania brokerage organizations. Just about a year ago, they started talking for real. On the last day of December, 2008, the deal was...
Willis to Expand UK Commercial Broker Network Internationally
Nov 6 2009 // Willis Group Holdings announced plans to expand its successful Willis Commercial Network business model for serving independent brokers from its base in the UK to countries around the world. Willis selected Mark Radburn...
California Agents Win Case Against State Farm
Nov 6 2009 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Company is going to have to pay the defense costs of the two former agents the insurance company fired, and then sued, according to a court decision handed down last week. The well-known...
U.S. RE in Alliance with Argentine Broker
Nov 5 2009 // Tal P. Piccione, Chairman and CEO of international reinsurance brokerage firm U.S. RE Corp., announced that it “has formed a strategic, exclusive, and reciprocal alliance with San Segur, a prominent insurance and...
North Carolina Agent Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
Nov 4 2009 // North Carolina officials said that Jennifer Hughes Puckett, a former insurance agent from Rockingham, appeared this week in Carthage at the Moore County District Court and pleaded guilty to 16 counts of embezzlement by an...
Vertafore Releases Version 4.0 of AMS360 Agency Management System
Nov 3 2009 // Insurance industry software provider Vertafore has released version 4.0 of its AMS360 management system with advancements that promise to simplify marketing and sales tasks for the more than 2,800 agencies currently using...
BB&T Insurance Acquires Florida’s Oswald Trippe Agency
Nov 3 2009 // Raleigh, North Carolina-based BB&T Insurance Services, the nation’s seventh largest insurance broker, said it has expanded its southwest Florida operation with the acquisition of Oswald Trippe and Co. Inc. of...
Agents Program Extends to Oregon
Nov 3 2009 // The Smart Choice Agents Program, which currently serves 3,000 independent agencies in more than 30 states, announces the expansion of the program into Oregon. Kurt Van Sickle has been named the state’s...
Connecticut Insurance Agent Admits Stealing Clients’ Money
Nov 2 2009 // Federal prosecutors say a Waterbury businessman has admitted to ripping off more than $1.3 million from clients that authorities say was used to gamble at Connecticut’s casinos. The U.S. Attorney’s office said...
California Arrests Bogus Auto Insurance Agent
Nov 2 2009 // A woman who faked being an automobile insurance agent, Leandra Delgadillo, 32, of Canyon Country has been arrested and booked into jail at the San Fernando Police Department on felony charges of fraud and grand theft. She...
