How Adam DeGraide, a rock ‘n roll bass player and band promoter who founded Astonish Results, plans to transport independent insurance agents into marketing cyberspace with his own digital elixir. Will agents drink the Kool-Aid? We come on down on …
Farmers Insurance Group of Cos. has appointed Senior Vice President Roy Smith to Senior Vice President Field Operations, Southwest Zone, effective immediately. The Southwest Zone includes the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Smith joined Farmers Insurance …
The results are in from the “2009 Best Independent Insurance Agency to Work For” survey by Insurance Journal. The common theme resonating from the winning responses is one of family ideals. Regardless of size or geographic region, employees of the …
Climate of Understanding “Insurers have dealt with the impact of extreme weather for centuries. Mopping up the aftermaths of a hurricane or cyclone is second nature to us. Above all, we understand people’s attitudes to risk and – on a …
Agents Wish for Firmer Prices, Better Economy and Market Stability in New Year Once again, agents and brokers are wishing for a harder insurance market in the New Year. But while most agents hope for firmer insurance pricing in 2010, …
Five years since the December 2004 Sumatra Indonesia Tsunami k illed 230,000, the United States has acclerated preparation for a potential tsunami along the U.S. coastline and built partnerships for an international warning program, according to the National Oceanic and …
David Kirk has joined Higginbotham & Associates as an account executive in the insurance and financial services brokerage firm’s Denton, Texas, office. Kirk brings to Higginbotham experience as an agency owner and a book of commercial property/casualty business concentrated in …
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 would grow Ascension from zero revenue to …
Liz Sequeira, a 52-year-old primary care physician, is too young to remember when U.S. doctors made routine house calls. So to her, seeing patients in her three exam rooms on the first floor of Discovery Communications Inc.’s modern headquarters in …
The new year is likely to bring new compensation disclosure rules for New York insurance producers. A pending regulation allows agents and brokers to accept incentive pay from insurers that is tied to volume and production, but requires them to …
