Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct. 1 Deadline for Agents to Register in Fla. Licensing System
May 16 2006 // Florida insurance agents have until Oct. 1 to complete their registration in the Department of Financial Services new Agency Licensing System. Hazel Muhammad, director of the Bureau of Licensing, told participants at the...
Main Street Group Contributes to Virginia Big ‘I’ Building Fund
May 16 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Virginia (IIAV) is thanking The Main Street America Group for contributing $50,000 to the building fund for development of the new IIAV Insurance Career Institute in Richmond. “As...
Everest, Holdren and PrideMark Insurance Agencies Merge
May 16 2006 // Everest Insurance, Holdren Insurance Agency and PrideMark Insurance Agents/Brokers have combined organizations to form PrideMark-Everest Insurance Services. The three agencies now operate from PrideMark’s building...
Royal Palm to Offer Coverage to Allstate Floridian Customers
May 15 2006 // St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Allstate Floridian has reached an agreement with Royal Palm Insurance Co., a new property insurer in the state, to offer Allstate Floridian customers and Florida consumers property insurance...
Hub International Acquires Northwest Aviation Broker Westar
May 15 2006 // Hub International Limited has purchased Westar Insurance Managers, based in Kirkland, Washington. The company will become part of Hub International’s Seattle-based operation (HUB Northwest). Terms of the transaction...
Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers Opens Conn. Branch
May 15 2006 // Atlanta-based Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers, LLC has formed a new branch office in Connecticut. The Connecticut office will operate as a wholesale insurance broker specializing in the placement of casualty business...
Safeco Adds Online Distribution Strategy
May 15 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents. The company began exploring this new distribution strategy in...
IJ’s Top 100 Highlights Nation’s Largest Privately-Held Independent Agencies
May 15 2006 // Insurance Journal released its third annual Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies list late last month and one of the nation’s largest networks of retail agencies came in as number one. Leading the pack of...
Calif. Broker Pleads No Contest to Premium Theft
May 14 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the no contest plea for insurance broker Alicia Lavendier, 44, for one count of grand theft and one count of insurance premium theft. Lavendier pled no contest on...
Bartmas Joins Heritage General Agency’s Orange County Office
May 14 2006 // Heritage General Agency, Los Angeles, has hired Sonja Bartmas as senior underwriter/broker. She will report to Julie Savage and will be responsible for the production of surplus lines business both open brokerage and...
Fairmont, W. Va. Agent Pleads Guilty to One Embezzlement Count
May 13 2006 // Shawn Edwin Linger, of Fairmont, W.Va. has pleaded guilty to one felony count of embezzlement, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Linger admitted to taking more than $18,000 in premium payments made to his...
Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers Names Belgarde SVP
May 12 2006 // Pacific Wholesale Insurance Brokers, LLC (PWIB) has named Renee K. Belgarde as senior vice president and West Coast property director. Belgarde has been in the insurance industry for 23 years. She worked 10 years on the...
IIAT Conference on Track for Houston June 15-16
May 12 2006 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas will hold its 109th Conference & Trade Show June 15-16, 2006, at The Westin Galleria in Houston. The association noted that the 109th annual conference features an impressive...
Agents Hail Passage of Tax Legislation
May 12 2006 // The Senate late yesterday passed the conference report on the bill, the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act, on the heels of House passage Wednesday night. The tax-cut bill, supported by independent insurance...
Acordia Acquires Assets of Key Insurance Agency
May 10 2006 // Acordia Inc. has acquired the assets of Key Insurance Agency LLC in Wasilla and Anchorage, Alaska. This is the Acordia’s 17th acquisition in 11 states the past three years — the second in Alaska. The...
Brunelle Joins Noodle Specialty Brokers
May 9 2006 // Lisa Brunelle, 43, has joined the Underwriting Department of Noodle Specialty Brokers (NSB), a division of InsuranceNoodle, as a vice president responsible for underwriting private company middle-market business. Prior to...
G.J. Sullivan Excess and Surplus Goes Online for Business Owners Policies/Commercial Auto Risks
May 9 2006 // G.J. Sullivan Co., Orange, Calif., has announced that agents in California and Arizona can now go online to www.gjsullivan.com to rate business owners policies and commercial auto risks 24 hours per day.. The online rating...
Networked Insurance Agents Appoints Staffhorst as Territorial Sales Vice President in the Rocky Mountain Region
May 9 2006 // Networked Insurance Agents, a professional account placement organization headquartered in Grass Valley, Calif., has appointed Will Staffhorst as territorial sales vice president, in Colorado, New Mexico and...
Lockton Insurance Brokers’ CEO Noonan Honored for Community Service
May 9 2006 // Timothy J. Noonan, president and CEO of Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc. based in Los Angeles, was recently honored by Phoenix House during its third annual “Triumph for Teens” Awards Gala at the Four Seasons...
American Association of Managing General Agents Gains Exclusive License for London Market Insurance Test
May 9 2006 // The American Association of Managing General Agents announced that it has an exclusive license with the Chartered Insurance Institute to offer the Lloyd’s of London Market Insurance Test. Passing the test is required...
