Agents & Brokers News

Higginbotham Adds 2 in Austin Office

Independent insurance and financial services firm Higginbotham & Associates added two brokers to its Austin, Texas, office. Higginbotham named Chris...

Western Insurance Agency Joins CAA

Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it has welcomed Tom Boren Insurance Agency Inc., dba Western Insurance...

People

The California Insurance Wholesalers Association awarded Hank Haldeman its recipient of the 2008 Industry Achievement Award. The award was given...

Declarations

Middle Strategy “This truly is a strategic move not a financial move. The data [on independent agents’ market share] is...

It Figures

37,500 The number of number of independent agencies nationwide, according to the “2008 Future One Agency Universe Study,” sponsored by...

Business Moves

Liberty Mutual, Wausau Liberty Mutual Group, which sells insurance both direct and through independent agents, is discontinuing direct distribution to...