Latest Agencies Headlines
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Safeco and Colorado Casualty Announce New Mountain Region Operations
Nov 19 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Colorado Casualty, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Mountain...
Has the Declining Economy and Soft Market Affected Your Marketing Plans for 2009?
Nov 19 2008 // Beacon Marketing – “Helping to guide your prospecting needs to new destinations” Orange, CA – November 19, 2008: With the current economic conditions, a lot of agencies have had to reduce and/or cut...
Willis China Launches Single Broker Retail OfficesTechnology Platform
Nov 18 2008 // Willis Group Holdings has launched a single broking technology platform for its 20 retail offices across China and has established a new operations center in Shanghai. Willis said the initiatives would “further drive...
Teague Insurance Agency, Wilson Insurance Agency Merge
Nov 17 2008 // Walter O.L. Johnston Jr., president of Teague Insurance Agency in La Mesa, Calif., and Bradley Wilson, president of Wilson Insurance Agency in Chula Vista, Calif., have merged their agencies. Both agencies have been...
Soft Market Challenges
Nov 16 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle To Grow in Soft Market
Nov 16 2008 // Revenue Growth Proves Challenge, Hiring New Producers Remains Priority The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”) last month released its annual Best Practices Study. The independent...
Agencies Shopping for Lowest E&O Rates Could Be Adding to Their Risk
Nov 16 2008 // No Agency Is Worth Sacrificing for the Cost of a Cafe Latte Each Day Independent insurance agents may be shopping their errors and omissions insurance coverage to seek the best rates. But what they are giving up in the...
Alabama Insurance Agent Parker Falls Short in Race for Congress
Nov 16 2008 // Democratic state Sen. Parker Griffith won a hotly contested election to the open 5th Congressional District seat in north Alabama, keeping the seat in his party’s column where it has been for more than 100...
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Nov 16 2008 // The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina elected Neil T. Annas as the association’s new president for the 2008 to 2009 term. Annas, president of Granite Insurance Agency Inc. in Granite Falls, N.C., was...
University Football Facility Named for Alabama Agent’s Family
Nov 16 2008 // Samford University’s new football field house is being named for a prominent Birmingham family. The Cooney Family Field House was made possible with a lead gift from Birmingham insurance agent and Samford graduate...
Opportunity Management
Nov 16 2008 // As the impact of the global economic crisis takes hold, a quarter of large U.S. employers expect to make layoffs in the next 12 months. However, most companies are focusing on increased employee communication and smaller...
South Central Region’s Best Practices Agencies
Nov 16 2008 // Each year since 1993, the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America and Reagan Consulting study leading agencies and brokers in the country. After this year’s study, a total of 189 agencies from around the...
Even Best Practices Agencies Struggle to Grow in Soft Market
Nov 16 2008 // Revenue Growth Proves Challenge; Hiring New Producers Remains Priority The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”) in October released its annual Best Practices Study. The independent...
Soft Market Challenges
Nov 16 2008 // Relationships, Recruiting, Training Key to Survival Soft market conditions could last for another nine months to five years, predict representatives from the agent, broker, carrier, reinsurance, and excess and surplus...
Retail Agents Left Wondering About Austin Surplus Lines
Nov 16 2008 // Austin Surplus Lines, a managing general agency with offices in the Austin, Dallas and Houston areas, apparently has ceased conducting some or all of its contracted business, to the surprise of at least some of its...
Washington Not Likely to Focus Much on P/C Agents in 2009
Nov 16 2008 // Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, the 64-year-old Democrat, easily won his third term as Washington state insurance commissioner, defeating Republican John Adams, who owns a Seattle-based insurance brokerage firm 57...
Opportunity Management
Nov 16 2008 // As the impact of the global economic crisis takes hold, a quarter of large U.S. employers expect to make layoffs in the next 12 months. However, most companies are focusing on increased employee communication and smaller...
Now is Not the Time for Insurance Industry Retreat
Nov 16 2008 // The word change has been largely embraced by the country this election season. As small business owners, the concept of change in our industry is something we have long been familiar with. Changes in the marketplace are...
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Nov 16 2008 // New York-based Navigators Group hired Paul Hennessy as president of Navigators Holdings (UK) Ltd. He will be responsible for Navigators’ operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and will report to President...
Strategic Planning for an Increasing Direct Writer Marketplace
Nov 16 2008 // The traditional role of an insurance agent in the sale of insurance products to potential policyholders has changed dramatically over the years. Historically, the agent was the customer’s first and only point of...
