Carriers Say Benefits in Producer Sales Education Well Worth the Investment For years, many insurance companies prided themselves on running successful producer training programs for the independent agents who represented them. Over time, some of these programs have fallen victim …
Gibson Insurance Group, Bolton & Co. Tell Their Tales of Growth In today’s challenging economic environment, property/casualty brokers are struggling to thrive. Toss in management of increasingly complex employee benefits, and many agents now work harder and earn less. With …
Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced six of its member agencies – Bigham-Kliewer-Chapman-Watts Insurance Agency, The Bridges Group Inc., Bryan Insurance Agency, Ed Berrong Insurance Agency, Pierson & Fendley Insurance Agency and Weatherby-Eisenrich Insurance Agency – have …
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has proposed reassigning investigators to probe workers’ compensation fraud but giving them far broader powers to prevent the misuse of state government funds. The proposal was contained in a $7.8 billion budget plan meant to …
Worcester, Massachusetts-based insurer The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. will acquire The Campania Group, a medical and general liability insurer for the health care industry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Campania Group, based in Vienna, Virginia, provides professional …
Insurance Agency Marketing Requires Careful Planning and Constant Implementation A revolution is underway that is having dramatic effects on insurance agencies, and the entire world. In the simplest terms, no one wants to do anything they don’t want to do. …
The Rise of Kansas City-based Ascension Insurance Len Kline and his business partners, the private equity firms Parthenon Capital and Century Capital Management, had an ambitious goal when they created Kansas City, Mo.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. in late 2007. They …
Protective Specialty Indianapolis, Ind.-based Protective Specialty has created a new Professional Liability Division, which joins the company’s portfolio of nationwide products by offering Miscellaneous Professional Liability. A subsidiary of Protective Insurance Company, which is rated “A+” (Superior) by A.M. Best, …
The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) elected Craig Sparks chairman of its board of directors. Sparks has been president of the Union Standard Insurance Company in Irving since 2000. Sparks’ insurance career began the day he graduated from the University …
The Rise of Kansas City-based Ascension Insurance Len Kline and his business partners, the private equity firms Parthenon Capital and Century Capital Management, had an ambitious goal when they created Kansas City, Mo.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. in late 2007. They …
