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Burns & Wilcox Adds Personal Lines Cyber Protection for Homes, Families, Individuals
Oct 21 2020 // Burns & Wilcox has launched Cyberman365, a new exclusive product line designed to mitigate personal cyber risks for individuals, families and homes. A collaboration between Burns & Wilcox and Node International,...
Calhoun Joins LP Risk’s Brokerage Team in Houston as Sr. VP
Oct 20 2020 // LP Risk Inc., a part of national specialty insurance distribution company XPT Partners, has hired Alicia Calhoun as senior vice president. Based in Houston, Calhoun will focus on brokerage business with a specialty in...
Specialty Broker NARDAC Launches in California
Oct 19 2020 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based NARDAC Insurance Services was recently launched by Jatin Sharma and co-founding partners Bill Kost and Brandon Statton. The new brokerage offers general products and services with highly...
Nebraska to Hold Flood Insurance Manual Workshop for Insurance Agents on Oct. 29
Oct 19 2020 // The Nebraska Department of Insurance is planning brief, one-hour, biannual workshops for insurance agents each October and April to discuss the changes in the Flood Insurance Manual. The first such workshop will be held on...
Successful Recruiting Requires a Different Story
Oct 19 2020 // The industry has long warned of the growing agent shortage and has prescribed more aggressive promotion of career opportunities especially in technology to attract the next generation. As the shortages grow more acute,...
Caring at Liberty Company Insurance Brokers
Oct 19 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Inc. in Woodland Hills, Calif., offered the perfect Hollywood ending for Bill Johnson. Johnson started the brokerage fresh out of college in 1987, then later took a break to get into...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Bloodgood in California
Oct 15 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has added Wes Bloodgood to the Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Bloodgood has experience in high net worth personal lines risk management, as well as experience with high risk...
California Insurance Agent, Unlicensed Employee Arraigned for Alleged Fraud
Oct 13 2020 // Insurance agent Brenda Cervantes, 31, of Oxnard, Calif., and unlicensed employee Edith Arellano-Quinones, 39, of Ojai, were arraigned on Tuesday on misdemeanor counts of insurance fraud after allegedly selling auto...
Private Equity Investor BP Marsh Increases Stake in EC3 Brokers
Oct 13 2020 // EC3 Brokers has received a new investment from existing shareholder BP Marsh & Partners, which will take its holding in the broker to 35%. This investment will help London-based EC3 Brokers broaden its offering and...
AmWINS, CRC and Heffernan Create Technology Alliance for Specialty Business
Oct 13 2020 // Wholesaler insurance brokers AmWINS and CRC, along with independent agency Heffernan Insurance Brokers, are the charter members of a new alliance to accelerate technology improvements in the brokerage, wholesale and...
NFP Acquires UK-Based P/C Broker Ernest R. Shaw Ltd.
Oct 12 2020 // NFP, a New York City-based insurance broker and consultant, announced the acquisition of Ernest R. Shaw Ltd. in a transaction that closed on Sept. 1, 2020. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. ER Shaw, located...
How Pandemic, Contracts Focus Intellectual Property Insurance on Intangible Assets
Oct 9 2020 // The demand for intellectual property (IP) cover has been increasing year on year as businesses become more aware of the threat not only to their own IP, but also the potential that they may face a claim of infringement by...
Florida Homeowners Insurtech TypTap Goes National; Plans Roll-Out in 20 States
Oct 8 2020 // After launching in Florida as a flood insurer in 2016 and expanding into the homeowners market in 2018, TypTap Insurance Co. has officially started the process of becoming a nationwide company. The technology-driven...
Hub International Acquires Ontario’s Mumby Insurance Brokers
Oct 8 2020 // Global insurance broker Hub International has acquired the property/casualty and employee benefits businesses of Mumby Insurance Brokers Inc. in Waterloo, Ontario. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Mumby...
Digital E&S Insurance Broker Pathpoint Makes Its Debut
Oct 8 2020 // Pathpoint, a new brokerage for excess and surplus lines, is billing itself as an all-digital wholesale brokerage built from the ground up. Pathpoint is licensed across the U.S. and is a coverholder at Lloyd’s of...
DOXA Acquires AMS Professional Liability, Allsouth Professional Liability of Florida
Oct 8 2020 // AMS Professional Liability, a wholesale broker in the state of Florida, and Allsouth Professional Liability, a brokerage specializing in professional liability insurance in the southeastern United States, have been...
Online Platform Allows Agents, Buyers to Compare, Buy Flood Insurance
Oct 8 2020 // Florida-based flood insurance agency National Flood Insurance (NFI) has backed a new online platform for consumers and agents to quote, compare, and purchase flood insurance policies from multiple flood insurance...
Howden’s Acquisition of A-Plan Group to Create One of UK’s Largest Brokers
Oct 7 2020 // The international insurance broking group Howden recently announced that it has agreed to acquire A-Plan Group, one of the UK’s largest personal and commercial lines insurance brokers. The deal promises to create one...
Hub International Limited Acquires Assets of Maryland’s Bernstein Insurance
Oct 7 2020 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Bernstein Insurance LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Bernstein Insurance’s principal owner, Jennifer Bernstein, was...
Newfront Adds California-Based Brokers in Ag, Service and Manufacturing
Oct 7 2020 // Newfront Insurance has added a team of insurance brokers who were formerly part of Paramount Insurance in Fresno, Calif. The move reflects Newfront’s growing investment in agriculture, service and...
