Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Boston Insurance Brokerage Promotes Treen to VP of Finance and Administration
Oct 2 2020 // Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB) has promoted Casie Treen to vice president of Finance and Administration. Treen has been a member of the BIB team since 2011. She joined BIB as an intern while pursuing a degree in...
Argument in London Pub Between U.S., British Agents Is Focus of UK Employment Suit
Oct 2 2020 // An insult-laden spat at a London pub that strained relations between U.S. and British law-enforcement agencies is at the center of a employment tribunal lawsuit against the UK Serious Fraud Office. Tom Martin, an...
Appalachian Underwriters Makes 3 Promotions in Tennessee
Oct 2 2020 // Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. (AUI) has promoted three in-house Marketing team members Marketing representatives in its Oak Ridge, Tenn. Headquarters. The three members will service agents in their specific...
Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Sawyer of Cross Insurance Says Work Building Cannabis Business Worth it
Oct 1 2020 // Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips...
Distinguished Programs Hires Guerrero as Regional Sales Executive in New York
Oct 1 2020 // Distinguished Programs, a national insurance program manager, has hired Brando Guerrero as a regional sales executive in New York. In this role, Guerrero will oversee growth/broker partners in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley...
Allstate to Cut 3,800 Jobs as Latest Step in Multi-Year Growth Plan
Oct 1 2020 // The Allstate Corp. said it will cut approximately 3,800 jobs in claims, sales, service and support functions as part of its continuing plan to grow its property/casualty market share. The layoffs will affect about eight...
Cease and Desist Order Issued for Louisiana Agent for Alleged Premium Theft
Oct 1 2020 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance has issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of producers license to a Lake Charles, La., agent for alleged misappropriation of premium funds. Valerie M. Muse reportedly...
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Revokes Agent’s License
Sep 30 2020 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance Mark Afable has charged former insurance agent, Timothy S. Bratley, with a number of violations of insurance law all targeting elderly consumers. Bratley, also a...
Agents Warned of ‘Creative’ Attorneys, Virus Lawsuits
Sep 30 2020 // Agents and brokers should be on alert that plaintiffs’ attorneys in COVID-19 related business interruption claims lawsuits may be eyeing them as more cases against insurance companies begin to fail and claimants...
Insurance Broker Gallagher Reports Ransomware Attack
Sep 29 2020 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. and its claims unit, Gallagher Bassett, reported that a ransomware incident that happened on Saturday, Sept. 26 limited some of its internal systems. In a filing with the...
Howden Acquires London-Based Broker St Giles Legal & Professional Risks
Sep 29 2020 // Howden, the independent employee-owned insurance broker, announced it has reached an agreement to acquire St Giles Legal & Professional Risks, a London-based professional indemnity insurance broker specializing in the...
Florida Peninsula Promotes Gonzalez to Director of Agency Support
Sep 28 2020 // The Florida Peninsula Insurance family of companies, which includes Edison Insurance Co., has promoted Mariella Gonzalez to director of Agency Support. In addition to her current role as director of Community Involvement,...
Louisiana Agent’s License Suspended for Misappropriation, False Insurance Certificates
Sep 25 2020 // A Lake Charles, Louisiana, insurance producer has been issued a cease and desist order and had her license suspended amid an investigation into misappropriation of insurance premiums and the issuing of false insurance...
Boston Insurance Brokerage Appoints Driscoll as CEO
Sep 25 2020 // Boston Insurance Brokerage LLC (BIB) has appointed Keith Driscoll as CEO. Driscoll has been a member of the BIB team since 2013, beginning as vice president of the Workers’ Compensation Division before being promoted...
What Distinguishes This Market? Here’s Lockton Re Leaders’ Insights
Sep 24 2020 // Lockton Re’s Tim Gardner, global CEO, and Ross Howard, global chairman, have been through their share of hard markets. Like many in the reinsurance business, they agree no two hard markets are exactly the same. For...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Borchardt in California
Sep 24 2020 // The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Sean Borchardt a partner in the Woodland Hills, Calif., office. Borchardt has more than 15 years of experience. He previously has held positions at Gallagher, Relations...
Independent Brokers Will Remain Competitive by Adding Value to the Value Chain
Sep 23 2020 // The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need for brokers to add value to the insurance transaction, according to Toby Esser, chairman of AFL Insurance Brokers, a London-based independent broker. Indeed, Esser said, the...
Lockton Partners with Michigan Minority Enterprise Brokerage, Birwood Services Group
Sep 21 2020 // Lockton has formed a strategic alliance with Birwood Services Group, a Detroit-based certified minority business enterprise (MBE) insurance brokerage. Lockton’s alliance with Birwood is part of the company’s...
Producer Heroes
Sep 21 2020 // I received a nice email from a reader asking me to write about how important it is to support good producers and how good producers should be heroes rather than grouping all producers as anti-heroes. He provided the...
Time to Rethink Your Account Manager Recruiting Strategies
Sep 21 2020 // Year after year I have found that insurance agencies spend 60% of their recruiting activity on account management hires. This far overshadows the combined time spent hiring producers, managers and executives. With such a...
