Agency Management

Tropical cyclone activity continues to heat up in the Atlantic as Hurricane Igor becomes one of the most potent storms in three years and Julia becomes the fifth hurricane of the season.

Speakers remembered industry legend, Robert Clements, and discussed the value education brings to a business world constantly challenged by change during the Spencer Educational Foundation Gala.

Greg Case, president and chief executive officer of the insurance brokerage firm Aon Corp., will be this year's chairman of the annual Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation benefit dinner on Dec. 8.

A trade group representing medical professional liability insurance companies pointed to a new study indicating that physicians practicing defense medicine cost the U.S. health system $45 billion annually.

Horace Mann Educators Corp. said it plans to keep its chief executive despite a drunk driving conviction that will keep him in jail for 60 days.

The Target Markets Program Administrators Association announced that four additional program carriers have joined the group.