Top 100 2010 Privately-Held Independent Agencies

About This Report: The economy and soft insurance market continued to hammer some of the nation’s leading independent insurance agencies in 2009.

Property/casualty premiums written fell for 37 percent of the privately-owned agencies and brokerages on Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies list.

Even so, almost half of the agencies in this year’s list, some 42 percent, managed to increase their P/C premium volume in 2009 over 2008. And seven agencies saw their P/C premium volume increase by more than 20 percent.

Notable mentions include Alliant Insurance Services, Keystone Insurers Group and Moreton &Co., each of which posted increases in P/C premium of 30 percent or more.

This year’s list also includes 13 newcomers, including: EPIC Insurance Brokers; Acrisure; SIA Group; Lapre Scali & Co.; Momentous Insurance Brokerage Inc.; Millennium Corporate Solutions; North Florida Agents Network; M3 Insurance Solutions Inc.; AssureAlliance Inc.; Comegys Insurance / SAN of Tampa Bay; Celedinas Insurance Group; American Auto Club Insurance Agency; and SouthGroup Insurance.

Insurance Journal wishes to thank all of those agencies and brokerages that were willing to share their information for the Top 100 report. The result is a glimpse at some of the nation’s top privately-held independent insurance agencies and brokerages whose business volume is primarily retail, not wholesale. The more cooperation IJ receives, the more accurate and comprehensive this listing can be.

All information in this report has been garnered from voluntary online submissions from agencies, brokerages and best estimates based on other public information sources. There may be agencies eligible for listing but for which no information was received or located. Also, submitted data was not independently verified.

For more information about this report, contact Andrea Ortega-Wells at awells@insurancejournal.com.

Topics Agencies Property Casualty