Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Man’s Best Friend
Sep 7 2009 // A friend of mine — or more accurately, a friend of my dog—became excited recently when he realized he could take advantage of the government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. He had been wanting for...
Florida Agents Say Home Mitigation Effort Is Riddled with Fraud, Inefficiencies and Errors
Sep 7 2009 // Florida’s efforts to encourage homeowners to harden their homes to better withstand big storms by giving them insurance premium discounts is not getting the job done, according to a report from insurance agents in...
CEO Arends, Agent Crosby Inducted Into Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame
Sep 3 2009 // The Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame honored two leaders in the insurance industry at the sixteenth annual induction ceremony of the Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame recently on the campus of Olivet College. New members...
New York Eases Rules for Placing Difficult Risks in Excess Market
Sep 3 2009 // In a move widely supported by industry advocates, the New York State Insurance Department has approved new rules that would make it quicker and easier for to write some categories of higher-risk insurance that are...
Judge Says Rating Agencies Not Shielded by Free Speech Defense
Sep 3 2009 // Credit rating agencies may find it harder to argue that their opinions deserve free speech protection after a judge rejected efforts by Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s to dismiss a fraud...
Japanese Agents Hope to Learn Best Practices from U.S. Agencies
Sep 2 2009 // The owners and producers of Japan’s estimated 300,000 insurance agencies can only dream of the success and freedom that the 40,000 independent agencies in the U.S. enjoy. But they can still learn best practices from...
Failure to Notify Leads to Revocation of North Dakota Agent’s License
Aug 31 2009 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm recently served an order to revoke the insurance license of Julia Beth Lutgen, a Fargo insurance agent who failed to notify the Insurance Department of an April 2009 criminal...
Hill County Insurance Joins Combined Agents Group
Aug 28 2009 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added Hill County Insurance Agency Inc. in Hillsboro, Texas, as a member, bringing the group’s agency membership total to 42. CAA has agency members in Texas, Oklahoma and...
Insurance Journal Searches for the Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 28 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
New Paper Evaluates Current State of Insurance Regulation and Its Future
Aug 27 2009 // The current state of the financial services industries and the role of the federal government in regulating these industries, including the insurance sector, continues to be a matter of debate in Congress. To help assess...
Former Oklahoma Insurance Agent Arrested, Faces Felony Charges
Aug 27 2009 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced former insurance agent Richard Wallen has been arrested by the Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit. Wallen has been charged with two felony...
Marsh Heads New Atlanta Office for Bliss & Glennon Insurance Brokers
Aug 27 2009 // Jill Marsh has joined wholesale insurance broker Bliss and Glennon as a senior broker. She has opened an Atlanta office for the firm. Previously she was a broker at AmWins Brokerage of Georgia. Marsh brings over 20 years...
Beacon Hill Associates Opens South Central Regional Office in Texas
Aug 26 2009 // Beacon Hill Associates Inc. has opened a new regional office in Plano, Texas, and has added Brett Amick as assistant vice president. The company serves agents in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico. Beacon Hill...
Employers Direct Sheds Direct Calif. Workers’ Comp; Will Return with Brokers
Aug 26 2009 // Just a short time after announcing it was leaving the California workers’ compensation insurance market because it was not profitable, Employers Direct Insurance Co. is announcing it is back. The...
Florida, Georgia Insurer First Commercial to Be Liquidated
Aug 26 2009 // Miami-based First Commercial Insurance Co. and its subsidiary have been declared insolvent and ordered liquidated about six weeks after being placed under state control. All policies written by FCIC and its subsidiary,...
Former Oklahoma Agent Sold Insurance Without a License, AG Says
Aug 25 2009 // A former Vinita, Okla., insurance agent will pay more than $4,400 in restitution after pleading guilty to selling insurance without a license, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported. William Ronald Harlan,...
Insurance Journal Searches for the Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 25 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
States Give ‘Thumbs Up’ to Fingerprinting Insurance Producers
Aug 21 2009 // Don’t be alarmed, but there are convicted criminals roaming around the country acting as insurance producers. They could be drunk drivers, robbers, forgers, possibly even rapists. They got their producer licenses in...
Caribbean Agencies Create Partnership for Natural Disaster Management
Aug 21 2009 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing a partnership to facilitate capacity...
Insurance Journal Searches for the Best Agencies to Work For
Aug 20 2009 // Is your independent insurance agency or brokerage firm a great place to work? Insurance Journal is on the search for the best independent insurance agencies and brokerages in the U.S. to work for and we hope you will...
