Agency Management

BB&T bank, the third largest bank in insurance in the nation, said it has named its Chief Executive Officer, Kelly S. King as chairman of the board.

Aon's founder and former chief executive is embarking on a new insurance venture with the launch of a brokerage firm specializing in errors and omissions coverage for niche risks.

Back in January, a top broker said we were entering our "first 'invisible' hard market," with price hikes hidden by shrinking insurable exposures. NU Editor Sam Friedman examines how that prediction played out in his blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

Was the stubbornly soft market, reform efforts on health care and financial services regulation or developments at AIG the biggest p&c news story of 2009? Go to www.property-casualty.com to respond to NU's Reader Poll.

New York-based insurance broker Integro said it has acquired William E. Kelly Agency, Inc., of Mamaroneck, N.Y.

The revelations surrounding Tiger Woods' infidelities has helped one insurance broker promote a new insurance product aimed at corporations that place a major portion of their branding campaign behind a celebrity figure.