Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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Iowa’s Farmers Mutual Hail, John Deere Insurance Close Acquisition

Apr 1 2015 // Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa (FMH) announced its acquisition of Illinois-based John Deere Insurance Company and John Deere Risk Protection Inc. is complete Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, FMH has...

National General Holdings Acquires Assigned Risk Solutions in New Jersey

Apr 1 2015 // National General Holdings Corp. announced that it has closed upon the acquisition of Saddle Brook, New Jersey-based Assigned Risk Solutions Ltd. from Toronto-based Kingsway Financial Services for a purchase price of $47...

Hamilton Completes Sportscover Acquisition; O’Donohoe is MGA CEO

Apr 1 2015 // The Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group has completed the acquisition of Sportscover Underwriting Limited, the Lloyd’s managing agent for Syndicate 3334, and Kinetic Insurance Brokers Limited, a Lloyd’s...

Allied World Completes Acquisition of RSA’s Hong Kong, Singapore Units

Apr 1 2015 // Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG announced that it has completed the acquisitions of the Hong Kong and Singapore operations of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc (RSA), following the receipt of all necessary...

NFP Acquires Arizona-Based WIS

Mar 31 2015 // NFP has acquired Weber’s Insurance Service Inc. and Weber’s Assurance Group LLC in Arizona. The transaction was effective Feb. 18, but terms of the deal were not released. Weber’s Insurance and...

Protector Holdings Acquires Oasis South in California

Mar 31 2015 // Protector Holdings, a joint venture of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center and Dowling Capital Partners, has acquired Oasis South Insurance Services in California. With eight locations across California’s San Diego...

BNC Insurance Agency Acquires Milbrandt & Co. in New York

Mar 31 2015 // BNC Insurance Agency Inc., an independent agency based in Rye Brook, New York, announced that it has acquired Milbrandt & Co. Inc., an independent agency based in New Rochelle, New York, with a satellite office in...

Endurance to Acquire Montpelier for $1.8 Billion

Mar 31 2015 // Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. and Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced a merger today, in which Endurance will acquire Montpelier in a stock-cash deal for roughly $1.8 billion. Specifically, the deal...

Bank of Ireland Shares Fall 6%, as Fairfax Financial Sells Stake

Mar 31 2015 // Canada’s Fairfax Financial Holdings has sold half of its 5.8 percent stake in Bank of Ireland for more than triple what it paid for it in 2011, a source with knowledge of the deal said, pushing the share price down 6...

ProSight, Affinity Partner on Golf, Country, Leisure Club Program

Mar 27 2015 // ProSight Specialty Insurance and Affinity Agency Group, LLC have partnered to create ClubComplete, a specialized one-stop insurance product for golf, country and leisure club owners and managers. ProSight’s...

Vertafore Partners to Expand Cloud, Data, Mobile Offerings

Mar 27 2015 // Insurance software provider Vertafore announced three new partnerships to expand its end-to-end technology offerings for the cloud, data, and mobile spaces at its user conference, NetVU15, now taking place in Indianapolis...

Florida Cat Fund Cleared to Buy $2.2B of Reinsurance

Mar 27 2015 // In what counts as excellent news both for Florida taxpayers and the private insurance market, Gov. Rick Scott and the State Board of Administration have approved a request from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund to...

California, Others Seek Full Funding For West Coast Quake Warning

Mar 26 2015 // Three dozen members of Congress from California, Oregon and Washington are pressing for full funding of a West Coast earthquake early warning system. The group this week sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee...

Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Spain Agency in New York

Mar 23 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced today that its subsidiary Brown & Brown of New York Inc. has acquired certain assets of Spain Agency Inc., an independent agency based in Mahopac, New York. Terms of the transaction...

Cross Insurance Acquires Corcoran & Havlin Insurance in Massachusetts

Mar 23 2015 // Cross Insurance, an independent insurance agency headquartered in Bangor, Maine, announced today it has purchased Corcoran & Havlin Insurance Group, an independent agency in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Terms of the...

M&A Calendar: P/C Agent, Broker Mergers & Acquisition Headlines in 2014

Mar 23 2015 // Insurance Journal reported on more than 200 deals involving agencies’ or brokerages’ mergers and acquisitions in 2014. Activity was busiest in the first and fourth quarters, with more than 60 announcements...

Domenick & Co. Acquires Human Services Co. in Baltimore

Mar 19 2015 // Domenick & Company, a Philadelphia-based independent agency specializing in providing property/casualty insurance and risk management services to the nonprofit sector, announced it has acquired the assets of Human...

Beacon Pointe Acquires Albert Heeg in California

Mar 19 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Beacon Pointe Advisors has acquired Albert Heeg Investment Management Co. Alameda, Calif.-based Albert Heeg joins Beacon Pointe’s institutional consulting services group, which specializes...

Chicago-Based Alper Services Partners with Germany’s unisonBrokers

Mar 19 2015 // Alper Services LLC, an independent insurance brokerage in Chicago, Ill., announced it recently signed an agreement with unisonBrokers, a global broker network with multinational insurance and risk management services, who...

China’s Fosun and Ping An Insurance Vying to Buy $1.6 Billion Berlin Complex

Mar 19 2015 // Fosun International Ltd., backed by Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang, is vying with Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. to acquire 18 buildings on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz square, people with knowledge of the matter...