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People Moves: Leif Assurance Promotes Worden to Sales Manager
Jul 12 2024 // Robert Worden Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, promoted Robert Worden to sales manager. Worden will also serve as the commercial lines’ sales manager for Leif’s sister company, Powers Insurance &...
People Moves: Leif Assurance Promotes Langworthy to Enterprise Relationship Manager
May 9 2024 // Leif Assurance, a full-service insurance agency that exclusively handles construction insurance, has promoted Melinda Langworthy to the role of Enterprise Relationship Manager. Prior to this new position, she served as the...
People Moves: Leif Assurance Hires Sills as Commercial Lines Account Executive
May 6 2024 // Kristine Sills Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Kristine Sills as a commercial lines account executive. Sills’ responsibilities include managing new business acquisitions, as well as handling the...
Prudential to Wind Down Direct-to-Consumer Assurance Business
May 1 2024 // Less than five years after acquiring online insurance startup Assurance IQ for $2.35 billion, Prudential is shutting it down. “Prudential Financial routinely evaluates strategic opportunities for its businesses that...
People Moves: Leif Assurance Hires Sanfilippo as Construction Risk Advisor
Apr 10 2024 // Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Vincent Sanfilippo as a Construction Risk Advisor. Sanfilippo has more than 15 years of experience in insurance and construction. He most recently served as operations...
People Moves: Leif Assurance Hires Galvan as Commercial Lines Account Manager; Applied Underwriters Names Holtmeier VP, Strategic Development, for M&A and Partnership Alliances
Apr 4 2024 // Leif Assurance Hires Galvan as Commercial Lines Account Manager Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Mayra Galvan as commercial lines account manager. Galvan is responsible for managing clients’ renewal...
People Moves: Leif Assurance Hires Gulli and Kay as Marketing Specialists
Feb 16 2024 // Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Lauren Elizabeth Gulli as brand marketing specialist and Connor Kay as digital marketing specialist. Before joining Leif Assurance, Gulli was a marketing director for a...
Assurance IQ Chooses AgentSync to Provide Excellent Agent Experience
Feb 8 2024 // Frictionless Agent Management Poised to Streamline Assurance IQ’s Agent Onboarding DENVER, Feb. 8, 2024 –– Assurance IQ and AgentSync have announced they will collaborate to transform the onboarding and...
People Moves: Leif Assurance Hires Smith as Construction Insurance Specialist
Dec 27 2023 // Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., recently hired Gabe Smith as a construction insurance specialist. Smith has 10 years of sales and insurance experience. Before joining Leif Assurance, he owned and served as...
People Moves: Truenorth Names Rogers VP of HR; Leif Assurance Names Davis Creative Marketing Director
Dec 21 2023 // Leif Assurance Names Davis Creative Marketing Director Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., named Lauren Davis creative marketing director. Davis has worked as creative marketing director at Leif...
People Moves: Worden Joins Leif Assurance; Kahle Joins Alliant in Kansas City
Nov 2 2023 // Worden Joins Leif Assurance Leif Assurance, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, hired Robert Worden as a construction insurance specialist. Worden has nearly 15 years of insurance industry experience. Before joining Leif...
People Moves: Pinnacol Assurance Welcomes New Board Chair Goodman
Feb 7 2023 // Pinnacol Assurance named Mark D. Goodman board chair. Goodman, currently chairman of Colorado Nut Holding Co., is on the board of directors for Colorado companies like Delta Dental and Bellco Credit Union. Denver Mayor...
Risk Strategies Acquires Worldwide Assurance Agency in Miami
Dec 14 2022 // Risk Strategies, national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Miami-based Worldwide Assurance Inc., a retail life, health and benefits agency. Worldwide was founded in 2012 and has grown...
Oakbridge Continues SE Expansion with Tennessee’s Assurance Center
Jul 14 2022 // Atlanta-based Oakbridge Insurance Agency, one of the largest regional agencies, has added The Assurance Center to its family. Assurance, headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a risk consultancy and agency with an...
Hub Acquires Western Assurance Corp. in New Mexico
Mar 7 2022 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Western Assurance Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chris Williams, president of Western Assurance, and the Western Assurance team will join Hub Southwest. Western Assurance is...
People Moves: New Hires at Buckle, Plymouth Rock Assurance
Aug 31 2021 // Buckle Appoints Sinclair to Newly Created Position of Chief People Officer Buckle, a tech-enabled financial services company, appointed Cheryl Sinclair to the company’s newly created position of chief people...
American Capital Assurance Corp. in Receivership, Being Liquidated
May 3 2021 // A Florida-based insurer with a strong presence in Louisiana and Texas is in receivership and being liquidated after Florida’s insurance regulator deemed it insolvent. The Florida Department of Financial Services in...
Regulator Deems Florida-Based American Capital Assurance Corp. Insolvent
Apr 19 2021 // After negative moves by ratings agencies last month to address its financial issues, Florida’s insurance regulator says American Capital Assurance Corp. (AmCap) is insolvent and should be placed in receivership. In a...
Regulator Deems Florida-Based American Capital Assurance Corp. Insolvent
Apr 6 2021 // After negative moves by ratings agencies last month to address its financial issues, Florida’s insurance regulator says American Capital Assurance Corp. (AmCap) is insolvent and should be placed in receivership, In a...
Core Assurance Partners Names Brandau as President, Russell as Vice President
Feb 16 2021 // Core Assurance Partners Inc. has named Zack Brandau as the organization’s president and Will Russell as vice president. Brandau will continue to lead the firm’s daily operations and drive strategic growth...
