Latest Insurance Wholesale Headlines
All the headlines from our Insurance Wholesale Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Working With Your E&S Wholesaler: Be Nice … You’ll Need Them Again!
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus-lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
By George Rothert
Jul 18 2005 // Working With E&S Wholesalers: Be Nice You’ll Need Them Again! The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a...
By George Rothert
Jul 18 2005 // Working With Your E&S Wholesaler: Be Nice You’ll Need Them Again! The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a...
How to Use Alternative Markets
Jul 18 2005 // The “hard market” conditions have been gone now for a couple of years. So, usually during “soft market” conditions one expects a lot of competition from the standard markets. This, however, is not...
Working With E&S Wholesalers: Be Nice … You’ll Need Them Again!
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
How to Use Alternative Markets
Jul 18 2005 // The “hard market” conditions have been gone now for a couple of years. So, usually during “soft market” conditions one expects a lot of competition from the standard markets. This, however, is not...
How to Select a MGA/Wholesaler
Jul 18 2005 // The following is a guideline for some of the key things to review during the selection process for qualified alternative markets. The term MGA also applies to GA, MGU, wholesaler, E&S broker, etc. Step One —...
Working With Your E&S Wholesaler: Be Nice … You’ll Need Them Again!
Jul 18 2005 // The surplus lines industry pendulum is now on its backswing into a soft market. A couple years of market restriction and firm pricing brought a temporary prosperity to the industry. The so-called “standard”...
MGAs, Program Administrators Told Selling Out May be Way to Go
Jul 4 2005 // Steve Way Has Built Giant HCC Holdings Via Acquisitions and He’s Not Done Yet Managing general agents and program administrators have an admirer with deep pockets in Steven Way. Getting some of that money might be...
AssuranceAmerica Expands to Alabama; Writing Auto Policies
Jun 21 2005 // AssuranceAmerica Corporation has announced its expansion into Alabama’s auto insurance market with sales of its first auto insurance policies in the state. The Atlanta-based company is represented by more than 300...
King’s Bay Reinsurance Licensed as Florida MGA
May 31 2005 // Intendant Holding Corporation of Vedra Beach, Fla. has received a license from the Florida Department of Financial Services for its insurance services subsidiary King’s Bay Insurance Services Inc., to operate as a...
People
May 23 2005 // Atlanta-based NBIS appointed Joseph Savarese as senior vice president of underwriting. He will focus on the company’s eastern and western U.S. presence, working to establish a network of insurance agents and brokers...
People
May 23 2005 // U.S.I. Holdings Corp. appointed C. Jeff Pan senior vice president – Business Transformation. Pan, who will be based in Dallas, is responsible for transforming the company’s business processes from a...
N.Y. Sen. Seward Urges Restraint in Response to Insurance Broker Scandal
May 9 2005 // New York State Senate Insurance Committee Chairman James Seward (R-Milford) told the Professional Insurance Wholesalers Association Inc. that New York policymakers should employ restraint as they look at, “what, if...
AssuranceAmerica Corp. Reports Wholesale Sub Now Writing Fla. Policies
Apr 26 2005 // Atlanta-based AssuranceAmerica Corp. announced its Managing General Agency (MGA) was approved to write auto coverages in Florida and is now actively putting Florida auto insurance policies on its books. In announcing its...
AAMGA Technology Conference
Apr 18 2005 // Disaster Plan Waiting to Happen? MGAs Must Prepare For All Emergencies His last words of advice might have been the most important: “If you haven’t started, start small.” Not all managing general agencies...
Entrepreneurial Spirit and Trust: Marks of Today’s Successful MGA
Apr 18 2005 // An Interview with Francis Johnson, AAMGA President-Elect Francis Johnson, president of Johnson and Johnson Inc., of Charleston, South Carolina, becomes president of the American Association of Managing General Agents in...
MGA GOES HIGH TECH
Apr 4 2005 // W.E. Love & Assoc. Inc. in Burlington, N.C., recently decided to go high-tech with an iChannel Web-based electronic imaging and document management system that can be integrated with any agency management, policy...
CEO of Aon’s Insurance Wholesaler Swett & Crawford Leaves the Company
Mar 15 2005 // Thomas Comer, president and CEO of Swett & Crawford, announced to employees at the end of the business day on March 14 that he will be leaving the company, according to unidentified sources. The reason for...
N.C. MGA Goes High Tech With Electronic Imaging, Document Management
Mar 11 2005 // Blue Goose Agency Services, an application service provider hosting and technology services provider to the managed general agency and general agency market, has announced the successful implementation of iCHANNEL their...
