Insurance Journal Salutes Nation’s Top Agencies for 2005

May 20, 2005

  • May 20, 2005 at 11:16 am
    John Doe says:
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    So Lockton only has 215 total employees ????

  • May 20, 2005 at 12:22 pm
    MVE says:
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    No way #45 Horenberg does over $200 million in P&C premium with 31 people. What is the validity of the list with stuff like this???

  • May 20, 2005 at 12:23 pm
    JBM says:
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    Ha Ha Ha!

  • May 20, 2005 at 12:36 pm
    Jonny Doe says:
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    I can’t speak for the other companies on the list, but the Brown & Brown, Info is just a wee bit off, and by wee bit, I mean a lot.
    B&B had almost a half Billion Dollars in commission revenue last year for their P&C business alone. Unless they’re getting 50% commission splits, I don’t think that the $1 billion in P&C premium is accurate. They did more than that in their Florida division alone.

    If you do a rough average of 10% commission per account, that would put B&B at $4-$5 Billion in P&C premium for 2004 not $1 Billion.
    And they’re headquartered in Daytona Beach not Mailand, FL.

    When your information is SKEWED this badly, it’s easy to question the validity of the article and the entire magazine itself.

  • May 20, 2005 at 12:45 pm
    MORRIS says:
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    YOU LEFT OUT MANY VERY FINE AGENCIES WHO HAVE AS MUCH PREMUIM VOLUMN AND EMPLOYEES. WHO PICKS THE WINNERS?

  • May 20, 2005 at 1:17 am
    chris says:
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    Other than the people trying to lie there way to #1 do they really think anyone else cares???

  • May 20, 2005 at 3:18 am
    faroff says:
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    gosh, wish we had enetered. we have 27 bodies doing p and c insurance and made a net profit of 1.24 million….. where would that rank us?

  • May 23, 2005 at 8:01 am
    Kent says:
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    You do not “eat” premium volume, how about measuring on revenue base.

  • May 23, 2005 at 2:09 am
    bob says:
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    gee, I did not realize Marsh and AON had shrunk so much!

  • May 23, 2005 at 4:07 am
    Chad May says:
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    This list is incorrect. Not even close. In Oklahoma alone there are a number of agencies producing as much as or more than Rich&Cartmill. It makes me question the credibility of this magazine. Did Dan Rather write this? Who checks the facts?

  • May 23, 2005 at 6:49 am
    Big Insurance says:
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    You send in your own info! That is why this is a joke. There is one hack shop listed that I am very familiar with. $65 million in premium volume with 135 employees? That translates to about $50,000 of revenue per employee. That’s chicken feed, and is not sustainable. In CT where this clown is located, he not only has to pay a premium to attract employees, but he is way over-leveraged and must pay on numerous notes. There is no way these numbers are accurate. He’s out of business with the figures he has provided to IJ, which makes one wonder what is his game?

  • May 24, 2005 at 12:36 pm
    M says:
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    I don’t disagree that the numbers may be inflated or inaccurate. However, before you make claims regarding “trumped” up numbers, you should verify your own. $65 Million divided by 135 is closer to $500,000 not $50,000; $481,481.48 to be exact. Half a million dollars is not chicken feed to me

  • May 24, 2005 at 5:41 am
    MIchael Randles says:
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    I would suggest that although many of these agencies are top as far as premium volume / commisisons they are not nescearliy the top when it comes to customer service, benefits, use of automation, etc.

    Just because they are part of a bank or large corporation intent on being a huge player and lots of funds puts most of these out of the “typical” agency.

    Don’t take this to mean they are not good, nor great people, but perhaps there needs to be a breakdown more by size here.

  • November 7, 2005 at 1:03 am
    Glenn Horenberg says:
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    We can type. The Journal added a zero!



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