Today’s demands on independent agents are plentiful: competition, risk management, compensation disclosure, quality markets and carrier’s demands for premium quotas, to name a few. Such demands could be one reason some agencies today have increased their use of market access …
Blackstone Group, Alliant Alliant Insurance Services Inc., one of the nation’s largest insurance brokerage firms, announced that The Blackstone Group, in partnership with Alliant’s management and employees, will acquire the company from its current owners comprised of the investment firm …
Francis L. Dean & Associates, a national underwriting facility specializing in sports and entertainment, has opened two offices: one in El Segundo, Calif., and the other in Ocala, Fla. The two offices will be managed by underwriters who relocated from …
People Kansas-based Brooke Franchise Corp., a subsidiary of Brooke Corp., elected Kyle L. Garst as its chairman and chief executive officer, and Dane S. Devlin as its president and chief operating officer. Garst was most recently national sales manager and …
Gregg Effner has joined The Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner will be based at the headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, senior vice president of field operations. In this newly …
BB&T, Reese BB&T Insurance Services plans to expand its metro Atlanta operation with the acquisition of Reese Insurance Associates Inc. of Riverdale, Ga., which sells commercial and personal property and casualty coverage and group benefits. The transaction is expected to …
Today’s demands on independent agents are plentiful: competition, risk management, compensation disclosure, quality markets and carrier’s demands for premium quotas, to name a few. Such demands could be one reason some agencies today have increased their use of market access …
Gregg Effner has joined The Main Street America Group as assistant vice president of distribution management. Effner will be based at the headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., and report to Doug Eden, senior vice president of field operations. In this newly …
A Minnesota woman who became ill and was hospitalized after eating beef linked to an E. coli outbreak has sued the companies that produced and sold the meat, claiming they acted with negligence. An attorney for Anne Herwig filed the …
Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Co. recently announced the addition of Barb Novak to its Annuity Division as national marketing director. In her new role, Novak is responsible for the oversight of the company’s internal sales group, the establishment of a …
