Agency Management

The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers announced a sales innovation program to provide members with comprehensive sales communication guidance, best practices, education, toolkits and templates to help them with every phase of the sales cycle.

Property and casualty carrier employment is at its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to data published by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and compiled by the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.).

Reinsurers have let it be known that the reinsurance market would be prepared to take on some flood risk if Congress decides to pursue that option.

Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has named Sharon Edwards chief financial officer.

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Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. said it has acquired Risk Planners, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SUPERVALU INC., a grocery store chain in Eden Prairie, Minn.