Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
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Argonaut Group to Acquire North Pointe Financial
Apr 20 2001 // Arognaut Group Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed a definitive purchase and sale agreement with Queensway Financial Holdings Ltd. to acquire the shares of North Pointe Financial Services Inc., Hermitage...
QBE Acquires HIH, Reliance Latin American Subsidiaries
Apr 18 2001 // Australia’s QBE Insurance expanded its Latin American presence with the purchase of Argentina’s HIH Aseguradora de Riesgos del Trabajo from HIH, and three other South American insurers from the U.S.’s...
TowerStreet Partners with Celina Insurance Group
Apr 18 2001 // TowerStreet, a provider of desktop and web-hosted comparative rating systems, underwriting reports and automated workflow solutions to the insurance industry, formed a strategic business partnership with Celina Insurance...
Rackley Systems Partners with QualCorp
Apr 17 2001 // Rackley Systems, a provider of commercial lines rating solutions, partnered with QualCorp Inc., to create a bi-directional link between rating and policy issuance. The new integration between Rackley Commercial Lines...
KATY AGENCY ACQUIRED
Apr 16 2001 // Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Vaught Insurance Services in Katy, Texas. The company will be merged into the current Brown & Brown of Texas office in Houston under the...
Claimport Acquired By HNC Software
Apr 13 2001 // HNC Software Inc. (Nasdaq: HNCS) announced April 12 it has acquired privately held Claimport, Inc. Headquartered in Lenexa, KS., Claimport is a national electronic data interchange (EDI) vendor providing Web-enabled...
Claimport Acquired By HNC Software
Apr 13 2001 // HNC Software Inc. announced April 12 it has acquired privately held Claimport Inc. Headquartered in Lenexa, Kan., Claimport is a national electronic data interchange (EDI) vendor providing web-enabled workers’...
New England Heritage to be Acquired by Stoneham Savings Bank
Apr 12 2001 // The Stoneham Savings Bank will acquire The New England Heritage Insurance Agency in Wakefield, Mass., under an agreement signed April 10. New England Heritage, which offers automobile, homeowners and business insurance,...
American National Completes Acquisition of
Apr 12 2001 // American National Insurance Company (American National) and Farm Family Holdings Inc. (Farm Family ) announced that American National had completed its acquisition of Farm Family, a transaction valued at approximately $280...
Stoneham Savings to Acquire Wakefield Agency
Apr 11 2001 // The Stoneham Savings Bank has announced it will acquire The New England Heritage Insurance Agency, an independent insurance agency in Wakefield, Mass. New England Heritage will be merged with The Robert F. O’Neill...
Webster Financial Acquires Two Agencies
Apr 10 2001 // Webster Financial Corp., through its wholly owned insurance subsidiary Webster Insurance, announced the acquisition of Wolff-Zackin & Associates Inc. and Benefit Plans Design & Administration Inc., both of...
Brown and Brown Acquires The Harris Agency
Apr 10 2001 // Brown and Brown has purchased The Harris Agency, a Manassas, Virginia agency founded more than a century ago. The transaction was effective April 1, 2001. The Harris Agency, established in 1897 and purchased by Loy Harris...
General Casualty Acquires Sixth Regional Insurance Company
Apr 9 2001 // Officials of Sun Prairie, Wis.-based General Casualty Insurance Companies announced the acquisition of Blue Ridge Insurance Company, headquartered in Simsbury, Conn. With this acquisition, Blue Ridge became General...
ERC Acquires, Reactivates New ‘GE CyberComp’ Brand
Apr 9 2001 // On March 29, Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC), a GE company, acquired and reactivated Cyber-Comp through its subsidiary Westport Insurance Corporation. Westport will use “GE CyberComp” as the brand name...
American National to Acquire Farm Family
Apr 6 2001 // American National Insurance Co. has received a nod from the New York State Insurance Department to acquire Farm Family Holdings. With this approval, the companies have received all of the approvals they need to complete...
SCOR in Discussions To Acquire Sorema
Apr 5 2001 // Paris-based SCOR Group, France’s largest reinsurer, confirmed that it was holding talks with mutual insurer Groupama SA to acquire its unprofitable reinsurance subsidiaries Sorema SA and Sorema NA, the...
Indiana United Bancorp Acquires Vollmer and Assoc.
Apr 5 2001 // Indiana United Bancorp has finalized a definitive agreement to acquire the insurance agency of Vollmer & Associates. The agency merged April 2 with the operations of The Insurance Group, which was formed in 1999 and...
Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Acquires B. Perkins
Apr 3 2001 // Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton has acquired the stock of B. Perkins & Co., an insurance agency in Hartford, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Generating more than $3 million in revenues annually, B....
Fortis to Buy CORE for $45 Million
Mar 30 2001 // The American subsidiary of the Belgian-Dutch Financial Services Group Fortis announced plans to acquire New York-based provider of employee absence management services CORE for $4.92 a share. Fortis will also assume...
PartnerRe Changes Name of French Unit
Mar 30 2001 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe announced that “it will change the name of its Paris organization from SAFR PartnerRe to PartnerRe SA,” effective April 1. The French operation thus joins the rest of the Group operating...
