Articles by Andrea Wells

Andrea Wells is vice president of content for Wells Media Group Inc., overseeing coverage for its multiple print and digital platforms. She is a veteran insurance journalist with more than 20 years’ experience covering the property/casualty industry. She has won several awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), including awards for original research for her work on Insurance Journal’s annual salary survey of retail insurance agencies and its annual survey of young insurance agents. She can be reached at: awells@wellsmedia.com.

How High-Tech Use by Young Agents Is Changing the Way the Insurance Industry Operates

San Diego, CA, 05/23/12 – Tech-savvy young independent insurance agents are changing how the property/casualty insurance industry operates, a new survey reveals. Jason D. Cass, owner of the JDC Insurance Group based in Centralia, Ill., who also serves as chair …

The Health Workers’ Compensation

Injured But Still Standing Like the economy, the workers’ compensation market has suffered in recent years. Results for 2011 were no better than 2010. The good news: results for the market were not worse either. The combined ratio held steady …

How Young Insurance Agents Are Changing the Industry

There’s a change happening — a big change. And some say young independent insurance agents are the catalyst for that change. They may even be leading a revolution, of sorts, says one young agent leader. Jason D. Cass, owner of …

CRC, Crump, R-T Specialty Reach Confidential Settlement Agreement

On May 4, 2012, CRC Insurance Services Inc., Crump Insurance Services Inc., and R-T Specialty LLC jointly announced that the three parties resolved all existing disputes between them. All three organizations said the conflicts were resolved in a global, confidential …

AAMGA President Chaffin Stresses Need for Perpetuation; Cites Effect of Revised Catastrophe Model on E&S Business

Relationships are important to the success of any insurance business, but it’s perpetuation that matters most when it comes to survival. R.C. Chaffin, president and CEO of Coral Gables, Fla.-based SeaCoast Underwriters Inc., and the incoming president of the American …

Oil, Economy Fuel Insurance Hiring in Texas

Job Outlook Across the nation, employment levels in insurance agencies and brokerages declined at a faster rate than the overall U.S. employment level since the recession began in 2007. The good news: Some independent agencies across Texas say hiring in …

South Central Insurance Employment: Oil, Economy Fuel Texas Hiring

Across the nation, employment levels in insurance agencies and brokerages declined at a faster rate than the overall U.S. employment level since the recession began in 2007. The good news: Some independent agencies across Texas say hiring in agencies is …

Young Agents Survey

How the Next Generation is Leading the Way There’s a change happening in the insurance industry — a big change. Young independent insurance agents are leading a revolution. It’s a revolution of means more than ends. Young agents tend to …

CRC’s CEO Hopes to Create ‘Best of the Best’ With Crump Merger

The recent acquisition of Roseland, N.J.-based insurance wholesaler Crump Group by BB&T Corp., a major regional bank and insurance broker based in Winston-Salem, N.C., created one of the largest providers of wholesale commercial insurance brokerage and specialty programs in the …

Social Privacy

The Internet changed the way the world works, and the federal government is looking to change the way Internet companies work. Data tracking of consumer online usage is big business for Internet companies selling data to businesses in search of …