Brand Management & Sales
Breckenridge Announces New Advisory Firm for M&A Insurance Placement
Breckenridge Insurance Group announced the formation of Vista Insurance Advisors, a new company to provide the Transactional and Mergers and Acquisitions market with expert insurance guidance and ...
BB&T to Grab Broker Swett & Crawford in $500M Cash Deal
Swett & Crawford, a U.S. wholesale commercial insurance broker for more than a century, has caught the eye of BB&T, which will snatch up the company in a $500 million cash deal with Cooper ...
Nationwide Hopes NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Will Highlight Broad Product Roster
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is again resurfacing as a Nationwide spokesperson, with new television commercials set to debut during the Daytona 500 on Feb. 21. The professional stock car racing driver and son ...
Agent Onboarding Solution Checklist for Insurance Companies and Agencies
Companies rely on agents to drive growth, but the onboarding process typically moves slowly due to corporate, regulatory and verification requirements. The delay in bringing agents on board directly ...
Where Insurers Rank Among World’s Top Brands: 2016
Allianz is the only global insurance organization that ranks among the top 50 most valuable brands in the world, but even the German company failed to garner the highest brand rating of AAA+ awarded ...
AIG’s Plan to Decentralize and Other Things Revealed in Its Strategic Plan
Of all the changes detailed in American International Group's wide-ranging strategic plan, the insurer's bid to decentralize decision-making among leaders of its operating divisions may be among the ...
What’s in a Name? The Importance of Reputation Management
"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon," Mark Twain once said. Reputation is as important today as it was in Twain's day, but perhaps not necessarily as unassailable. ...
Executive View: Underwriting Tech Drives Service for Agents, Customers
While there are many good reasons to invest in underwriting technology, for Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Company there is really just one primary driver behind everything that we do and that's ...