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Sedgwick LLP Names Holmes Managing Partner in Los Angeles
Jan 4 2017 // Sedgwick LLP has named James Holmes an office managing partner in Los Angeles. Holmes is an experienced trial attorney and litigator, representing major media and entertainment entities, as well as major insurance carriers...
New Partners Named at Woodruff-Sawyer in Western Region
Jan 4 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named 10 new partners to the firm. The partners represent various product lines, from property/casualty to management liability to employee benefits, and are...
Duck Creek Technologies Acquires Data Management Software Firm Yodil
Jan 4 2017 // Duck Creek Technologies, a Boston-based provider of core system cloud services and software to the global property/casualty insurance industry, said it has acquired Yodil, an insurance data management software firm based...
Ryan Specialty Group Buys Navigators’ Agency Operations in Sweden, Denmark
Jan 4 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC has acquired The Navigators Group Inc.’s insurance agency operations in Sweden and Denmark. The transaction represents a 100 percent acquisition of Navigators’ Sweden and Denmark...
K2 Acquires Waterplus, Fireplus And JPA Expirations From Alteris in California
Jan 3 2017 // K2 Insurance Services LLC has acquired the WaterPlus, FirePlus and JPA in-force expirations from San Francisco, Calif.-based Alteris Insurance Services Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alteris President Paul...
Confie Acquires Auto Insurance America in Nevada and New Mexico
Jan 3 2017 // Confie has acquired Auto Insurance America from Western National Mutual Insurance Co. Auto Insurance America is a provider of non-standard auto insurance serving Nevada and New Mexico. The company has five locations in Las...
Correction: Brown & Brown’s Hull Acquires Insurance House Commercial MGA Business
Jan 3 2017 // Hull & Co., a wholesale insurance subsidiary of giant Brown & Brown, has acquired the commercial managing general agency operations of Insurance House. Insurance House is an MGA and wholesale insurance broker...
The Andrew Agency Acquires Wallace & Wallace in Maryland
Jan 3 2017 // The Andrew Agency, a Richmond, Va., headquartered insurance broker, has acquired Wallace & Wallace, a Cabin John, Md., based provider of commercial and personal lines property and casualty insurance for high net worth...
Marsh Completes Acquisition of Bluefin Insurance from AXA
Jan 3 2017 // Marsh, the wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos., said it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Bluefin Insurance Group Ltd., a subsidiary of AXA UK plc, from AXA Group. Founded in 2008,...
Canada’s Fairfax Gets Approval to Buy 51% of India’s Catholic Syrian Bank
Dec 30 2016 // Value investor Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. won regulatory approval to buy 51 percent of Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd., marking the first time India’s central bank is allowing a foreign investor to...
Chinese M&A to Continue Despite Regulatory, Policy Hurdles: A.M. Best
Dec 30 2016 // While Chinese companies have been increasing their overseas merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in recent years, there are signs that growth could slow in the coming year, as a result of uncertain economic outlook...
NN Group Agrees to Acquire Dutch Insurer Delta Lloyd for $2.6B
Dec 28 2016 // NN Group NV agreed to buy Delta Lloyd NV for about 2.5 billion euros ($2.6 billion) after its earlier offer for the Dutch insurer was rejected. NN offered 5.40 euros a share in cash for Amsterdam-based Delta Lloyd, the...
Risk Strategies Acquires Advanced Insurance Underwriters in Florida
Dec 27 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired business insurance specialist Advanced Insurance Underwriters (AIU), headquartered in Hollywood, Fla. Terms of...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Louisiana’s Group Insurance Associates
Dec 22 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Group Insurance Associates Inc. in Metairie, Louisiana. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1983, Group Insurance Associates Inc. (GIA) is an employee benefits...
Higginbotham Expands with Insurance Associates of the Southwest Merger
Dec 20 2016 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Insurance Associates of the Southwest (IAS) have merged their operations in Houston. IAS is an independent broker with 38 commercial, personal, life, health...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires National Ethics Bureau in California
Dec 20 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired National Ethics Bureau Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Japheth Smellie and his team will continue to operate from their Southern California location...
Acrisure Acquires Alaska USA Insurance Brokers’ Commercial, Benefits Business
Dec 20 2016 // Acrisure LLC has acquired Alaska USA Insurance Brokers’ commercial insurance and employee benefits books of business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new company will operate under the name Insurance...
USI Acquires Austin-Based Employee Benefits Firm, Ball Peoples
Dec 20 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Ball Peoples, an employee benefits advisory firm headquartered in Austin, Texas. Since 1975, Ball Peoples has been providing employee benefits for clients throughout Central Texas...
Kaplansky Insurance of Massachusetts Acquires R.P. Ahearn Insurance
Dec 20 2016 // Kaplansky Insurance, a Needham, Mass., based independent insurance agency, has acquired certain assets of R.P. Ahearn Insurance Agency, based in Framingham, Mass. Since 1987, R.P. Ahearn Insurance has been dedicated to...
XL Catlin Extends Partnership with Kidnap Response Specialist S-RM
Dec 20 2016 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations announced it has extended its partnership with S-RM, the London-based specialist risk and business intelligence consultancy, effective Jan. 1, 2017. S-RM becomes XL Catlin’s...
