Latest Agencies Headlines
All the headlines from our Agencies Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Freddie Mac Accepts KBRA Ratings, Giving Fla. Agents, Mortgagees More Options
Feb 2 2023 // Freddie Mac, one of two mortgage-buying companies that buttress the U.S. home-lending market, has agreed to accept the Kroll Bond Rating Agency as a rating firm for homeowners’ insurance companies. “We have...
Bridger Insurance Services and AgentSync Pioneer Operational Efficiencies
Jan 30 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance is a highly regulated industry, and, with a producer workforce that’s turning over as a generation retires and signs over their businesses, reducing...
How Agentsync Helps Insurance Producers and Adjusters Manage Carrier Requirements for Paper Licensing
Jan 24 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance agents want to get paid for the products they sell. They’ll ultimately choose to partner with the insurance carriers that get commissions paid quickly...
Wholesale Broker Socius Acquires New York’s Kelly Underwriting
Jan 19 2023 // San Francisco-based wholesale insurance brokerage Socius Insurance Services, Inc. has acquired the assets of Kelly Underwriting Services, a Farmingdale, New York based managing general underwriter. Led by Tom Nash, Kelly...
Gallagher Acquires Retail Broker First Ireland Risk Management in Dublin
Jan 18 2023 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Dublin, Ireland-based First Ireland Risk Management Limited, a retail insurance broker offering commercial and personal insurance products as well as life and pension products...
Acrisure Acquires Affinity Brokers in Scotland
Jan 18 2023 // Acrisure, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based insurance broker and fintech specialist, has acquired Affinity Brokers Limited, a commercial insurance broker based in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 2010 by Scott Meechan and...
Canada’s Westland Insurance Acquires Broker RiskTech From Excel
Jan 17 2023 // Westland Insurance announced that it has acquired the Edmonton brokerage RiskTech Insurance Services as of January 1. Risk Tech was a member of Excel Insurance Group. It specializes in serving large and mid-market...
Former California Insurance Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $90K
Jan 13 2023 // Sally Nava Kanarek, 76, of Huntington Beach, was arrested this week on multiple felony counts of financial elder abuse, grand theft of an elder, and forgery after a California Department of Insurance investigation found...
Northwest Arkansas Insurance Agent Dies in Plane Crash
Jan 12 2023 // Arkansas insurance agent Brant Barnes died in a Jan. 6 plane crash in Washington County. Barnes, 43-years old of Tontitown, was the lone occupant in the Beech, M35, fixed wing, single engine aircraft when it crashed off of...
France’s Verlingue Buys Broker Cabinet Depeyre and MGA Depeyre Solutions
Jan 12 2023 // French broker Verlingue, a subsidiary of Adelaïde Group and specialist in corporate protection, is continuing its external growth strategy with two new acquisitions that will consolidate its presence in the Grand Est...
First MainStreet Adds 3 Iowa Partner Agencies
Jan 10 2023 // First MainStreet Insurance L.C. (FMSI), an affiliate of TrueNorth Companies L.C., closed out 2022 with adding three additional partner agencies to the platform. In total, the firm completed 11 new partnerships in 2022, ten...
Ardonagh Specialty Joins Global Broking Network, Brokerslink
Jan 10 2023 // Brokerslink has added Ardonagh Specialty to its international network. Three businesses within Ardonagh Specialty – Ed Broking, Ed Bermuda and Piiq Risk Partners – are existing Brokerslink partners, and remain in the...
Texas’ Combined Agents of America Adds 24 Partner Agencies
Jan 9 2023 // Combined Agents of America (CAA) – a privately held aggregator group based in Austin, Texas – announced the additions of 23 new partner agencies to the organization. The group will now be comprised of 94 agencies...
Insurers, Agents Spared in New Jersey Shooting Claims
Jan 5 2023 // A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that a New Jersey property owner is not entitled to insurance coverage for a shooting because it never disclosed it owned the banquet hall where the shooting took place on its two...
California Bail Agent Arraigned for Felony Grand Theft
Jan 4 2023 // Previously licensed California bail agent and insurance producer Sean Wilczak, 29, was arraigned in Santa Barbara County Superior Court on three felony counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing $25,000 from three bail...
Howden Buys Spanish Broker March Risk Solutions, Forms Alliance With Banca March
Jan 3 2023 // Howden, the London-based international insurance broker, announced it has acquired 100% of Spanish insurance broker March Risk Solutions (March R.S.) and has signed an alliance with Banca March, March R.S.’s parent...
Former California Insurance Agent Sentenced After Embezzling Clients’ Premium Payments
Dec 27 2022 // Anaiza Villarreal Lopez, 30, of McFarland, California was sentenced in Kern County Superior Court on one count of grand theft by embezzlement after pocketing clients’ premium payments and leaving several of them...
Howden Acquires Italian TV and Film Broker Assimovie
Dec 22 2022 // Howden, the international insurance broker, announced it has agreed to acquire Assimovie, the leading TV, film and advertising insurance broker in Italy. The transaction underlines Howden’s continued commitment to...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquiring Brazilian Broker Interbrok
Dec 21 2022 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of São Paulo, Brazil-based Interbrok Group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a media statement, J. Patrick Gallagher Jr., chairman, president and...
Hilb, Patriot Growth, Oakbridge Continue Expansion with Southeast Agencies
Dec 21 2022 // Hilb Acquires Georgia’s Gillman Insurance The Hilb Group has acquired Georgia-based Gillman Insurance Problem Solvers, expanding Hilb’s already expanding Southeast presence. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Gillman...
