Agency Management

Agents and technology representatives at a meeting to discuss an initiative to improve efficiency between retail and wholesale insurance brokers and the companies that accept their business declared, "we are at war over keystrokes."

The Council of Insurance Brokers of Greater New York said it will join the legal effort to defeat New York's compensation disclosure rule for agents and brokers.

In the second of a three-part video interview, Eileen Frank, president of J.P. West, explains how the insurance industry can improve its recruitment of the best, the brightest and most diverse work force. View it at www.property-casualty.com.

Publicly traded insurance brokers are expected to underperform stocks on the S&P 500 Index coming out of the recession, and Aon is rated the best of the bunch, according to an analyst's note from Citigroup.

The Commercial Insurance Agency of the Year Award program, run for the past eight years exclusively by National Underwriter, is being expanded and managed in partnership for the first time.

Soft market rates for the commercial property and casualty insurance sector show little evidence they will change in the near future, according to the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.

Declaring that the company has learned its lesson from the economic crisis, The Hartford's chief executive officer outlined a new strategy for growth while putting enterprise risk management front and center.

AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Colemont Insurance Brokers in Dallas, in a move that might make it the nation's largest wholesale brokerage, one consultant suggested. Financial terms of the transaction were not released.