Agents & Brokers News

Woodard Elected President of IIA Houston

The Independent Insurance Agents of Houston recently installed Donald E. (Woody) Woodard, Jr. as the association’s president for 2004-2005. Woodard...

U.S.I. Holdings Acquires Benefit Partners

U.S.I. Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: USIH) of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. has acquired Nashville, Tenn.-based Benefit Partners of America. The acquisition is...

S&P Lowers Credit Ratings on MMC

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. (MMC)...

Pride in the Independent Agency System

By N. Stephen Ruchman
Over the past five years the insurance industry has endured the entry of banks into the field; faced heinous attacks...