Kip A. Thomas has been promoted to assistant vice president in the Personal Lines Division at TD Banknorth Insurance Agency, Inc. in South Portland, Maine. A private client insurance agent, he will be responsible for high net worth personal lines …
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has held off on saying whether he’ll support a sweeping health care reform bill crafted by legislative leaders until he can determine if it would require a tax increase to pay for it. Romney said he …
Environmental Insurance Program Manager, Freberg Environmental, Inc. (FEI) has launched an excess automobile liability program with an A.M. Best rated “A VIII” domestic insurance company. The excess auto liability insurance program provides limits of liability of up to $4 million. …
Specialty broker Ames & Gough announced the election of Dan Knise as its new president and chief executive officer. Ames & Gough is an insurance broker and risk management consultant specializing in serving architects, engineers, law firms and managed care …
To an inexperienced agent, just learning the insurance industry’s ropes–and many acronyms–can be difficult; Forget about picking a niche or becoming an agency’s top seller too soon. Yet throughout the industry, there are many educational opportunities designed to do just …
Tides continue to turn on the automation frontier and agents and brokers riding the waves may be pushing a sea change in the way they communicate with insurance carriers, according to the results of a recent survey of independent agents …
Massachusetts moved a step closer to dramatically expanding health coverage last week after House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini said they’ve broken a legislative impasse blocking a major overhaul of health care. Appearing at a joint Statehouse …
A Malden, Massachusetts man was convicted recently in federal court of mail fraud and making false statements to a federal agency. United States Attorney Michael Sullivan, Robert Panella, assistant special agent In Charge of the Office of Labor Racketeering and …
Citizens Financial Group is selling its considerable insurance agency businesses to Hub International Limited in a deal that includes a strategic alliance between the two for future sales and marketing. Hub will purchase three large insurance brokerages from subsidiaries of …
Seven of the Main Street America Group’s leading employees will be honored March 9 in Jacksonville, Fla. They will receive the company’s highest honor by being inducted into its Circle of Excellence, an annual employee recognition program established in 1985. …
