Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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H.W. Kaufman Financial Group Acquires Toronto-Based Technical Risk Services

Jan 7 2016 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich., has acquired Technical Risk Services (TRS), a Toronto, Canada-based specialist in loss control services, inspections, and risk control consulting. TRS...

Mass. Health Insurers Partner With Police to Help Heroin Addicts

Jan 6 2016 // Health insurers in Massachusetts are pitching in to help the Gloucester Police Department with their well-known program to get heroin addicts into treatment. Under a pilot program launched Monday, members of the...

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions to Buy Stop Loss Underwriter IHC Risk

Jan 6 2016 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has agreed to buy IHC Risk Solutions and its direct employer stop loss (ESL) business from Independence Holding Co. for $152.5 million in cash. The transaction includes IHC Risk...

Willis CFO Greene Exits with $3.75M Lump Sum After Towers Watson Merger

Jan 5 2016 // Willis Towers Watson Plc, the company created this week by the merger of insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Plc and consulting firm Towers Watson & Co., said Chief Financial Officer John Greene is stepping...

World Insurance Acquires HTK/Hunt Traina Kennard in New Jersey

Jan 5 2016 // World Insurance Associates LLC, an independent agency based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, announced the acquisition of the HTK/Hunt Traina Kennard Insurance Agency Inc., also based in Tinton Falls. Terms of the transaction...

Ex-McKinsey Consulting Partner Charged with Fraud Against State Farm

Jan 5 2016 // A former partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co has been arrested on charges that he engaged in a scheme to submit fraudulent invoices and expenses to the company and clients, including State Farm, for more than...

Guy Carpenter Appoints Meyenhofer as Head of Global Partners for EMEA

Jan 5 2016 // Guy Carpenter & Co. has appointed of Matthias Meyenhofer as managing director to lead the firm’s Global Partners client segment for EMEA. He will be responsible for improving and expanding the range of services...

VistaNational Insurance Acquires Business Insurance Underwriters

Jan 5 2016 // Oak Brook, Ill.-based VistaNational Insurance Group Inc. has acquired Business Insurance Underwriters of Wheaton, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. VistaNational Insurance specializes in employee...

NORCAL Mutual Acquires Florida-Based FD Insurance

Jan 4 2016 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co. has completed its acquisition of FD Insurance, a Florida domiciled medical malpractice provider for physicians and surgeons. This acquisition expands NORCAL’s national footprint and...

H.W. Kaufman Financial Group Acquires New Orleans-Area Brokerage

Jan 4 2016 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., has acquired B&F Special Risks Inc., a New Orleans (Metairie), La.-based specialty insurance broker. B&F Special Risks was founded in 1977 by J....

Tarpey Insurance Group Acquires Wilson Insurance in Massachusetts

Dec 31 2015 // Tarpey Insurance Group Inc., a family-owned and operated independent agency based in Wakefield, Massachusetts, with four additional locations in the state, announced that it has acquired the assets of the Wilson Insurance...

NFP Acquires Vanorsdale Insurance Services in California

Dec 30 2015 // NFP Property & Casualty has acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Vanorsdale Insurance Services Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The firm’s president, Doug Galloway, will assume the role of director of NFP...

Willis Completes Acquisition of France’s Gras Savoye

Dec 30 2015 // Willis Group Holdings plc, the global risk advisory, re/insurance broking, and human capital and benefits firm, announced the completion of its acquisition of Gras Savoye, the leading French insurance broker. On April 22,...

NFP Acquires Absolute Advantage in Arizona

Dec 29 2015 // NFP Property & Casualty has acquired Lake Havasu City, Ariz.-based Absolute Advantage Insurance Services LLC. The deal transaction closed on Dec. 4. Absolute will operate from the existing NFP office in Lake Havasu...

Oswego Valley Insurance Acquires Banach Insurance in New York

Dec 29 2015 // Oswego Valley Insurance Agencies LLC (OVIA), an independent agency based in Oswego, New York, with five additional offices in the Central New York region, announced that it has acquired Banach Insurance Agency in Pulaski,...

AXA to Buy Liberty Ubezpieczenia, Polish P&C Operations of Liberty Mutual

Dec 28 2015 // AXA announced it will acquire Liberty Ubezpieczenia, the Polish property & casualty operations of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group for 92.3 million Polish Zloty ($23 million), plus the net asset value outstanding as of...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Australia’s Strathearn Insurance Brokers

Dec 28 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired 100 percent of the capital stock of Strathearn Insurance Group Pty Ltd., headquartered in Perth, Australia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1993,...

Pennsylvania’s Donegal Buys Out Activist Investor’s Shares for $70M

Dec 23 2015 // Gregory M. Shepard, an activist investor who’s been a major stockholder of Pennsylvania-based Donegal Group and a frequent critic of the company, has sold off his shares Tuesday, according to securities...

CoreLogic Buys Mississippi-Based Appraisal Software Maker for $475 million

Dec 23 2015 // Real estate information provider CoreLogic is buying Oxford, Miss.-based FNC Inc. for $475 million. CoreLogic, based in Irvine, Calif., announced the purchase Dec. 17, saying it wants to integrate FNC’s real estate...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Georgia-Based Managed Healthcare Solutions

Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Managed Healthcare Solutions, Inc. in Atlanta. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2000, Managed HealthCare Solutions (MHS) provides employee benefit...