Wells Fargo Insurance Services recently announced the addition of staff in its North Dakota office. Deb Galt was named Insurance Brokerage supervisor for Wells Fargo Insurance Services’ Midwest region, and Gail Hayes was named as new Commercial Account representative. Both …
Boston-based AIR Worldwide Corp. reports that Dennis Fasking and Jin Zhang have joined its expanding Consulting and Client Services Group to meet growing client demand for catastrophe risk consulting services. Fasking and Zhang will be key members of a team …
Independent agents hold onto market share, prepare for post-November election politics Insurance Journal‘s Editor-in-Chief Andrea Wells interviewed Robert Rusbuldt, CEO and president of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (the Big “I”), at the Big “I” Legislative Conference …
About This Report: The soft market had its effect on this year’s Top 100. But despite challenging soft market conditions, 15 of the privately-owned agencies and brokerages on Insurance Journal‘s Top 100 Property Casualty Independent Agencies list managed to increase …
Riemer’s on a collecting spree that includes new employees, green offices, Rolex watches and cookie jars When Fireman’s Fund introduced its Green-Gard program covering environmentally sound commercial building practices, Stephen Riemer, president of Florida-based Riemer Insurance Group, said he “jumped …
Your E&O claim waiting to happen Certificates — not again. Haven’t we heard enough about this topic? Apparently not. Certificates are issued for all sorts of insureds, but contracting risk is the most dangerous of them all. Why does the …
Soft market, economic downturn, consumer advocacy translate into more work for agencies Insurance Journal‘s Editor-in-Chief Andrea Wells was at the Big “I” Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., where she caught up with Robert Fulwider, an independent agent from Iowa who …
Soft market’s effect on premium volume doesn’t have to hinder revenue Premium volume may be down for independent agencies across the country but that doesn’t mean agency revenue is down for some of the nation’s top performing agencies. Diversifying an …
More than 2,500 delegates from around the world gathered in commemoration of San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake at the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference — the largest earthquake conference ever held — in San Francisco this week. There, earthquake professionals and policymakers …
The rate of obesity in the United States has doubled in the last 30 years, and those extra pounds weigh on companies’ bottom lines, according to a new report from The Conference Board. Today, 34 percent of American adults fit …
