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Confie Acquires Velox Insurance to Expand in Georgia Market

Dec 14 2021 // Confie, a U.S. independent personal lines distributor, will acquire Velox Insurance as an affiliate to its nonstandard national brand, Freeway Insurance. The acquisition includes all 40 locations in Georgia, tripling...

World Insurance Associates Acquires New Jersey’s E&K Insurance Group

Dec 14 2021 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired E&K Insurance Group of Eatontown, New Jersey, on December 1, 2021. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. E&K was founded in 1930 by two entrepreneurs who...

Canada’s StoneRidge Insurance Brokers Acquires John Stark & Co.

Dec 14 2021 // SIB Corp., operating as StoneRidge Insurance Brokers (SIB), the Canadian provider of insurance and consulting services, has acquired John Stark & Co. (Stark), to expand its personal, commercial and life insurance...

High Street Acquires Nebraska’s GTA Insurance Group

Dec 13 2021 // High Street Insurance Partners has acquired Nebraska-based GTA Insurance Group. GTA Insurance Group provides comprehensive insurance and risk management solutions across Nebraska. It has an extensive agricultural practice...

Hub Acquires Assets of Basi Insurance Services in California

Dec 13 2021 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Basi Insurance Services Inc. in California Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Randy Basi, president and CEO of Basi Insurance Services, will report to Michael Der Manouel,...

Ryan Specialty Group to Acquire Pennsylvania’s Keystone Risk Partners

Dec 13 2021 // Ryan Specialty Group, an international specialty insurance firm, has signed an agreement to acquire certain assets of Keystone Risk Partners LLC based in Media, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not...

Brown & Brown Acquires Florida’s Corporate Insurance Advisors

Dec 13 2021 // Insurance agency Brown & Brown of Florida, Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Corporate Insurance Advisors. J. Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of Brown & Brown, Inc., and Mark R. Schwartz,...

Alera Group Acquires J&J Benefits Insurance Agency in Utah

Dec 13 2021 // Alera Group acquired J&J Benefits Insurance Agency, an employee benefits consulting and health insurance firm serving clients in Utah and Idaho. J&J Benefits joins Alera Group through Banasky, an Alera Group...

Reinsurer Says U.S. Should Regulate $17 Billion Litigation Funding Industry

Dec 13 2021 // Litigation funding has become a $17 billion industry globally, with 52% of that money being spent in the United States, Swiss Re said in a recent report. The reinsurer said third-party litigation funding (TPLF) is...

British Insurer LV= Rejects Bain Takeover Bid; Royal London Wants to Talk

Dec 10 2021 // British mutual life insurer LV= on Friday abandoned a proposed 530 million pound ($701 million) takeover by private equity giant Bain Capital after it lost a member vote, and rival Royal London put forward an alternative...

M&A Insurance Rates Nearly Double After Explosion of Dealmaking During Pandemic

Dec 10 2021 // The cost of insurance to cover problems involving M&A has nearly doubled in just two years, underwriters and brokers said, after an explosion of global dealmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential buyers take out...

Leavitt Group Acquires Whims Insurance in Washington

Dec 9 2021 // Leavitt Group acquired Whims Insurance & Financial Services in Monroe, Washington. The Whims Insurance staff of 11, all locations, and contact information will remain the same. Whims Insurance & Financial Services...

Risk Strategies Acquires Fournier Group in Oregon

Dec 9 2021 // Risk Strategies acquired Fournier Group in Portland, Oregon. Fournier Group is a commercial and personal lines retail insurance agency led by President Greg Kuhns. In 2018, Fournier Group acquired Aircraft & Marine, an...

People Moves: Garland to Be President of State Auto After Liberty Mutual Acquisition

Dec 9 2021 // Liberty Mutual Insurance plans to appoint Kim Garland as president of State Auto Financial Corp. following the completion of Liberty Mutual’s pending acquisition of State Auto. The deal is expected to close in...

Risk Strategies Acquires New Jersey’s Meeker Sharkey & Hurley

Dec 9 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, acquired full-service insurance and employee benefits agency Meeker Sharkey & Hurley. Terms of the deal were not announced. Meeker...

Leavitt Group Northwest Acquires Employee Benefits Division of SCS in Washington

Dec 8 2021 // Leavitt Group Northwest acquired the employee benefits division of the SCS Insurance in Bellevue, Washington. The acquisition brings a staff of six, with Chris Allen at the helm. Allen was and will remain director of the...

Hub Acquires Louisiana’s Gregory Benefits & Consulting

Dec 8 2021 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the insurance brokerage assets of Gregory Benefits & Consulting LLC. Terms of the transaction were not...

Filhet-Allard Maritime Buys Majority Stake in Marine Specialist Latitude Brokers

Dec 8 2021 // Filhet-Allard Maritime, the France-based insurance broker for the commodities trading, shipping and industrial markets, has acquired a controlling stake in Latitude Brokers, a specialist marine broker based in Asia with...

BRP Group Acquires Texas-Based Arcana

Dec 8 2021 // BRP Group, Inc. announced that Millennial Specialty Insurance, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of BRP Group, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Arcana Insurance Services, LP , a Dallas, Texas-based national...

Hub Acquires Texas-Based Cameron Investment Company

Dec 7 2021 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired Cameron Investment Company, Inc., d/b/a Shepard Walton King Insurance Group (Shepard Walton King). Terms of the...