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Maryland’s IWIF Partners with Pair of Members to Offer WC Coverage

Aug 19 2005 // IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance, a Maryland workers’ compensation insurance carrier, recently introduced two new target market programs specially designed for WANADA and AIMS members domiciled in...

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Partners With AT&T on Networking Services

Aug 16 2005 // AT&T announced today a two-year, multimillion-dollar national agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), continuing AT&T’s long-standing relationship with BCBSA and its member companies...

JPMorgan Partners to Sell App. 7.8 Million Axis Captal Shares

Aug 10 2005 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that JPMorgan Partners, a private equity affiliate of JP Morgan Chase & Co., and related entities, have agreed to sell approximately 7.8 million of AXIS...

Carr Becomes Partner at Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP

Aug 10 2005 // Santa Monica-based Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP announced that associate Scott H. Carr has become a partner with the firm. Carr represents clients in the areas of business litigation, legal malpractice, insurance...

Safety National Casualty Acquires ERC’s Excess Comp Book

Aug 10 2005 // Safety National Casualty Corporation has acquired renewal rights to the excess workers’ compensation business of Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC). The St. Louis, Mo.-based company l will immediately begin...

Adam Corporation Subsidiary Reliable Reports Completes Acquisition of CIG

Aug 10 2005 // LEWISVILLE, TEXAS (July 26, 2005) – The Adam Corporation/Group (“TAC”), a privately owned holding company, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Reliable Reports, Inc. (“Reliable”)...

Hub International Acquires Blanchard Insurance Group

Aug 4 2005 // Chicago-based Hub International Limited is expanding its Southwest presence by acquiring the assets of Blanchard Insurance Group by Hub’s subsidiary, Talbot Agency Inc. Terms of the cash transaction were not...

Brown & Brown Acquires Alliance Insurance Services

Aug 2 2005 // Kenneth D. Kirk, regional executive vice president of Brown & Brown Inc., and William A. “Bill” White, president of AAI Inc. d/b/a Alliance Insurance Services, of Canoga Park, California, announced the...

NCRIC Group Shareholders Back Merger into ProAssurance Corp.

Aug 2 2005 // NCRIC Group Inc. and ProAssurance Corporation jointly announced that NCRIC’s shareholders have approved NCRIC’s merger into ProAssurance. The approval came at Tuesday’s special meeting of shareholders in...

Chubb Sells Personal Lines Insurance Brokerage to Hub International

Aug 1 2005 // Chubb Corporation announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell Personal Lines Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (PLI) to Chicago-based Hub International Limited. The transaction is expected to close within 60 days,...

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma Merger Approved

Aug 1 2005 // An independent hearing examiner, on behalf of the Oklahoma Insurance Department, approved a request by Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC) to merge with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma. HCSC, with nearly 10...

ACE USA, ACORD Partner to Address Growth of International Exposures

Jul 28 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, joined with The Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) to announce the release of ACORD Forms 125, 815 and...

OneBeacon Sells National Farmers Union to QBE

Jul 27 2005 // OneBeacon Insurance Group in Boston has agreed to sell its National Farmers Union Property and Casualty Company (NFU) subsidiary to QBE Insurance Group for approximately $142 million, subject to adjustment based on closing...

Capita to Acquire BDML Connect from BDML Group

Jul 25 2005 // Capita Insurance Services, part of The Capita Group Plc (“Capita”), announced today that it is to acquire BDML Connect Ltd from the insurance group BDML. Subject to final Financial Services Authority approval,...

Skywire Acquires InsBridge

Jul 21 2005 // Frisco, Texas-based Skywire Software, which focuses on the insurance and financial services industries, announced it has completed its acquisition of InsBridge. For nearly a decade InsBridge has been providing rating and...

HCC Ins. Holdings Acquires UK-Based DeMontfort Group of Companies

Jul 19 2005 // Houston-based international insurance holding company and specialty insurer, HCC Insurance Holdings Inc., announced it has completed its acquisition of the UK-based DeMontfort Group of companies. DeMontfort is an insurance...

ACE USA Buys GE’s Alternative Risk Hospital Portfolio

Jul 18 2005 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced that ACE Medical Risk–a division of ACE USA–has purchased renewal rights to the Alternative Risk Hospital portfolio of...

D.C. Department Approves ProAssurance Acquisition of NCRIC Inc.; Aug. 2 Vote Scheduled

Jul 14 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers writers NCRIC Group Inc. and ProAssurance Corporation announced that the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking has approved the proposed acquisition of NCRIC,...

S&P Assigns Ratings to Partner Re Debt Issue

Jul 6 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has assigned its preliminary “A” senior debt, “A-” subordinated debt, and “BBB+” preferred stock ratings to PartnerRe Ltd.’s (PRE) $1...

Hancock Bank Closes Acquisition of J. Everett Eaves Inc.

Jul 5 2005 // Gulfport, Miss.-based Hancock Bank, announced the closing of its acquisition of one of New Orleans’ oldest property and casualty insurance agencies, J. Everett Eaves Inc. (JEE). Officials representing Hancock and JEE...