Insurance Journal, considered the most read national property and casualty publication for independent insurance agents and brokers, kicked off its legacy some time in 1923. While the exact date of the magazine's first issue remains a mystery, what the Insurance Journal has become is no secret. In 1936, during the Great Depression, Mark A. Wells Sr., then just 27 years old, purchased the magazine and immediately embarked on a top-to-bottom redesign. Following Mark A. Wells Sr.'s death in 1970, Mark Wells Jr. took over the magazine and remains its publisher today. Under his direction, the Insurance Journal has grown from a regional Southern California magazine with 4,000 readers to one of the most well respected insurance trade publications in the country with a bi-weekly circulation of more than 40,000 and readers in every state.
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