Insurance industry veteran Kevin P. Brooks passed away on April 3, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19. Brooks had a long and successful career in the insurance industry, focusing on wholesale, specialty and surplus lines. His career began in 1969 …
Members of the American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) and the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) have approved a merger of the two associations, creating the new Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association (WSIA). According to the …
How legalized marijuana and President-elect Donald Trump will affect the insurance industry, a possible merger of the nation’s two major excess and surplus lines organizations, renewing the National Flood Insurance Protection Program, California laws expected for 2017, incremental insurance. There …
The American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA) and the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) are considering combining both organizations into one association and have formed a joint committee to explore the idea. Brady Kelley, executive director, …
Kurt Bingeman, a former president of the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices Ltd., passed away at his home on Monday, Jan. 11, NAPSLO announced. He was 66.
CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could be available next year. San Francisco, …
“There are no rules. If you can figure out how to quantify a risk and define it, then you can insure it.” Hank Haldeman, president of the board of directors for the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, sounded …
Plano, TX, February 23, 2015- Kyle Stevens, President/CEO of WSS announced that the company has hired Tania Strickland as a new Senior Broker and Regional Vice President. Strickland will be heading a new Central Texas office located in San Antonio, …
Opportunity was a theme that came up often at the annual California Wholesaler Industry Days convention from Sunday through today in La Jolla, Calif. at Hilton Torrey Pines. The three-day conference organized by the California Wholesalers Insurance Association (CIWA) included …
There is a new political wrinkle in the attempt to stave off flood insurance rate hikes across the country. The Senate has attached an industry-supported bill to streamline agent and broker licensing to its bill to delay flood insurance premium …
