Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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AssuredPartners Acquires WorkforceTactix in Maryland

Jun 11 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced its acquisition of WorkforceTactix Inc., an independent employee benefits and HR professional services consulting firm with offices in Sparks and Salisbury, Maryland. Terms of the transaction...

Willis Taiwan Acquires Specialist Broker Elite Risk Services in Expansion Move

Jun 11 2015 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced its agreement to acquire Elite Risk Services Limited of Taiwan. The bulletin said the “move almost doubles the size of Willis’s existing business in Taiwan and strengthens...

NU Holdings Acquires Indianapolis Loss Control Services Firm

Jun 10 2015 // NU Holdings Inc., based in Dayton, Ohio, has acquired Indianapolis-based Thorn Valley Enterprises, which provides loss control services to insurers and general agencies. Thorn Valley has been in operation since...

Tokio Marine to Buy HCC for $7.5B in Biggest Ever Deal by Japanese Insurer

Jun 10 2015 // Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. agreed to buy HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. for about $7.5 billion in the biggest acquisition by a Japanese insurer, stepping up an overseas expansion to counter stagnation at home. Tokio Marine...

Alabama Man Steals 39 Patient Identities, Buys 14 Cars

Jun 10 2015 // Police say an Irondale, Ala., man stole the identities of dozens of patients at a Birmingham doctor’s office and used their credit to buy 14 automobiles worth an estimated half million dollars. Multiple news outlets...

USI Acquires Construction Agency Professionals in New Jersey

Jun 9 2015 // USI Insurance Services announced that it has acquired the construction insurance and surety business of Chester, New Jersey-based KORE Group Inc., doing business as Construction Agency Professionals (CAP). This business...

Prime Risk Partners Acquires Cook Maran & Associates in New York

Jun 8 2015 // Prime Risk Partners Inc., a national insurance distribution firm in Atlanta, announced its acquisition of Cook Maran & Associates Inc., an independent agency with offices in East Hampton, Southampton and Melville, New...

Update: Bermuda Court Rules in Favor of PartnerRe; EXOR Responds

Jun 8 2015 // The Supreme Court of Bermuda has denied EXOR’s request to obtain shareholder information from PartnerRe, the reinsurer that is seeking to merge with AXIS Capital Holdings and avoid a hostile takeover from EXOR...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Solid Benefit Guidance in New Jersey

Jun 5 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its acquisition of Solid Benefit Guidance (SBG) in Montvale, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2005, SBG is an employee benefits brokerage and...

South Carolina Lawmakers Fail to Pass Road Funding Bill

Jun 5 2015 // Getting more money to South Carolina roads was a top priority of the governor, lawmakers and businesses for this year. But with one day left in the 2015 session, the road funding bill appeared dead on the Senate...

UK’s Allianz Insurance Aims to Improve Fleet Safety With Telematics Partnership

Jun 5 2015 // Allianz Commercial has joined forces with fleet incident management provider FMG, to provide commercial fleet and motor trade customers with the capability to improve driver safety and fleet efficiency. Allianz Commercial...

Hudson Insurance Acquires Euclid Managers of Kansas City

Jun 4 2015 // Hudson Insurance Co. (Hudson) has acquired Euclid Managers LLC of Kansas City, Mo. (Euclid-KC) from Euclid Insurance Services Inc. and Euclid-KC’s management. Euclid-KC is an underwriting and claims manager for...

Kansas-Based Infinity Insurance Solutions Acquired by Patriot National

Jun 4 2015 // Patriot National Inc., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has acquired Infinity Insurance Solutions, a premium auditing and underwriting survey agency based in Overland Park, Kan. Infinity serves providers of...

AssuredPartners Acquires Indianapolis’ CoLiance Risk Advisors

Jun 4 2015 // Lake Mary, Fla.-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired CoLiance Risk Advisors through its AssuredPartners of Indiana subsidiary. The Indianapolis-based agency will operate under the local leadership of Managing Director...

Hub Acquires Assets of Shofner, Lynch & Shulse in New Mexico

Jun 4 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of New Mexico-based Shofner, Lynch & Shulse. SLS will become part of the operations of Hub International New Mexico, which is based in Albuquerque. SLS will maintain its...

EXOR Files Suit to Get PartnerRe’s Shareholder List; Takeover Battle Heats Up

Jun 4 2015 // EXOR, the Turin, Italy-based investment company and a suitor in the ongoing takeover battle of PartnerRe, filed a lawsuit on June 1 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda, seeking to obtain PartnerRe’s list of shareholders...

Risk Strategies Acquires Dubraski & Associates in California

Jun 3 2015 // Risk Strategies Co. has acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Dubraski & Associates Insurance Services, a national brokerage and consulting firm that provides risk and insurance solutions to the healthcare...

Hub Acquires Assets of Lovsted-Worthington in Washington

Jun 3 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Lovsted-Worthington Insurance, which serves Seattle and Western Washington. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LW will become part of the Hub International Northwest...

ITC Acquires Rater Multico-Online in Washington

Jun 3 2015 // Insurance Technologies Corp., a provider of marketing, rating and management software and services, has acquired Multico-Online from Multico Rating Systems Inc., a large Seattle, Wash.-based comparative rating vendor. The...

Alliant Acquires Mary Roach Insurance Agency in California

Jun 3 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Mary Roach Insurance Agency Inc., a provider of crop insurance to the agribusiness community headquarter in Fresno. Mary Roach will be instrumental in...