Last year’s top agencies, the “rookie of the year” and the “recruiter of the year” were honored by the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance on April 14 during SIAA’s 19th semi-annual business meeting at the Marriot World Center in Orlando, Fla. …
The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) on Thursday applauded the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy for exposing how plaintiffs’ lawyers are reportedly driving businesses and jobs from California. Released by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, “Trial Lawyers …
Victor O. Schinnerer and Company announced the launch of SpecialtyOne, an E&O insurance program for management consultants and staffing firms. The program will be written through Brit, a Lloyd’s syndicate. Target risks for the program include a range of consultants …
Discussions on hurricanes and catastrophe management, transportation security and ethics in business are among the topics to be discussed at the “Marine Insurance Issues 2005” seminar sponsored by the American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU). The full-day event will take …
With some 60,000 privately held independent agencies and brokerages nationwide, locating the most successful ones is a tough job but some company’s got to do it. That company is Insurance Journal. Insurance Journal is on the lookout for the nation’s …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its ‘B’ counterparty credit rating to American Wholesale Insurance Group Inc. (AmWINS). The outlook is stable. At the same time, Standard & Poor’s assigned its ‘B’ senior secured debt rating to the company’s …
Lubbock, Texas-based The Parker Group, a health care and benefits management holding company, announced it has closed on the acquisition of Gallagher Benefit Administrators Inc., a national third-party employee benefits administrator. The company was acquired from a subsidiary of Arthur …
The PIA Western Alliance Board of Directors has elected its first set of officers. Formed in October of 2004, the Board of Directors consists of two officers from each of the four affiliate chapters that make up the Western Alliance: …
The Harry W. Gorst Co. has hired Bradley T. Poe to manage its new Irvine, California office. He will be responsible for new business and staffing the new office in Irvine. Poe began his career on the retail side of …
Texas businessman Gene Phillips, whose relationship with former Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher was the focus of a multicounty grand jury investigation, is objecting to plans to convene a new grand jury that Phillips said may target him, the Associated …
