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#1 Carolina Insurance Agent Charged with Backdating Auto Policy After Crash
Aug 16 2023 // A North Carolina insurance agent has been charged with fraud after allegedly backdating an auto policy, to show that a friend was covered at the time of an accident. The North Carolina Department of Insurance reported this...
#2 Congratulations Top 100 Agencies
Aug 7 2023 // This year marks the 19th annual publication of Insurance Journal’s Top 100 Independent Agencies special report. One significant trend — the vast majority of firms (84 firms) in the Top 100 saw notable increases...
#3 Montana Brokerage Owner Admits to Defrauding Customers
Aug 28 2023 // Kileen Moria Hagadone, 57, owner of Rosebud County Insurance Inc., pleaded guilty to wire fraud and to aggravated identity theft. Hagadone faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, $250,000 fine and three years of supervised...
#4 Liberty Co. Brokers Secures $340M in Funding for Refinance, More Growth
Aug 18 2023 // Florida-based The Liberty Company, one of the largest property/casualty insurance brokers in the country, announced it had secured $340 million in loans to refinance debt and fuel new growth opportunities. The funding,...
#5 Connecticut Agent’s Failure to Disclose Dog Comes Back to Bite Homeowner
Aug 7 2023 // A Connecticut homeowner who is being sued by a woman who alleges his dog bit her in the face is not entitled to insurance coverage because his home insurance application, which was completed by his insurance agent,...
#6 New Hampshire Insurers, Agencies Must Report When Producers Are Fired
Aug 9 2023 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department is reminding insurance companies and agencies that they must notify the department when terminating producers for cause. “In the interest of ensuring compliance and upholding...
#7 101 Sales, Marketing & Agency Management Ideas
Aug 21 2023 // 1. Network with Your Competition. They will often have no appetite for certain lines of business that you wish to target. 2. Hard Market. Today’s insurance market is one of the hardest markets many have ever...
#8 Acturis Enters U.S. Market with Acquisition of Broker Buddha
Aug 4 2023 // After successful entries into the German, French and Canadian insurance markets, software-as-a-service firm Acturis Group has entered the U.S. market with the acquisition of Broker Buddha. Broker Buddha, based in New York...
#9 Private Equity Firm Hg Weighs Options for €1.5 Billion Insurance Broker GGW
Aug 18 2023 // Hg is weighing options for GGW Group, including a sale that could value the German insurance broker at about €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion), people familiar with the matter said. The software-focused private equity firm is...
#10 Lufthansa Weighs Sale of Aviation Insurance Broker, Insurer: Sources
Aug 30 2023 // Deutsche Lufthansa AG, the German airline, is looking to sell its insurance brokerage unit Albatros and insurance business Delvag, according to people familiar with the matter. The country’s largest carrier is...
#11 Specialist Risk Group Acquires UK’s Cheshire Insurance Brokers
Aug 17 2023 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based insurance intermediary, has acquired Cheshire Insurance Brokers (CIB). Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2010 by Dominic Leach &...
#12 InsurSign: The DocuSign for Carriers & Agencies
Aug 22 2023 // San Francisco, CA., August 22, 2023 — InsurSign is proud to announce the launch of its flagship product, InsurHub, a more affordable alternative to DocuSign, offering unlimited signatures and designed specifically...
#13 Broker Verlingue Expands UK Footprint With Acquisition of Brunsdon Employee Benefits
Aug 4 2023 // Verlingue has announced the acquisition of Gloucester, England-based Brunsdon Employee Benefits, an independently owned employee benefits specialist. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, supports Verlingue’s...
#14 Howden’s Aston Lark Acquires UK Broker Curtis Marine
Aug 29 2023 // Aston Lark, a Howden company, announced it has acquired Plymouth, UK-based marine insurance broker, Curtis Marine. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Curtis Marine will become part of Howden’s marine...
#15 Re/insurance Broker Consilium Granted License in Cayman Islands
Aug 2 2023 // Consilium, the London-based re/insurance brokerage arm of Aventum Group, has been granted a license by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). Consilium’s focus in the region will be in the financial and...
#16 Call off the Data Hunt! Get Your Variable Lines Brokers Onboarded and Ready to Sell Without the Hassle of Repeat Data Entry
Aug 7 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Managing compliance throughout the producer licensing process is complex, especially when it’s done by hand and even more so when it involves managing variable...
#17 Big ‘I’ Report: Independent Agency Channel Slowly Growing
Aug 21 2023 // The independent agency channel is holding ground and showing slow, steady gains in lines of business penetration, including homeowners, according to the Big “I” 2023 Market Share Report. Based on 2022 data,...
#18 Contingency Broker 1783 Group Joins Global Network, Brokerslink
Aug 25 2023 // Global broking business, Brokerslink, has added sports, music and entertainment contingency broker 1783 Group to its network. The new specialist affiliate operates in the world of sports, music, film and TV, and other...
