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#1 Texas Braces for Budget Constraints as Federal Funding Dries Up
Jul 2 2025 // The era of massive state budget surpluses in Texas could be coming to an end. As the last of the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency funds are spent and sales tax revenues return to historic averages after a...
#2 Fake WeWork Takeover Bid by Strip Mall Investor Gets Him Five Years in Prison
Mar 19 2025 // A former strip mall mogul was sentenced to five years in prison for orchestrating a fake WeWork Inc. takeover bid to profit from stock options he bought just before the company’s November 2023 bankruptcy...
#3 Cash-Flush Florida Tries to Buy Back Its Bonds for First Time
Oct 23 2024 // Florida bond investors are about to have an unusual decision to make — whether to sell their debt back to the state that issued the securities in the first place. The state is offering its first ever buyback, or...
#4 Funding Cuts Threaten Safety Training for Workers in America’s Most Dangerous Jobs
Jun 2 2025 // By the time Robbie Roberge spotted the fire consuming his boat’s galley last August, he knew he had just minutes to evacuate his beloved Three Girls fishing vessel, named for his daughters. As the flames spread up...
#5 US Steel, Nippon Sue Biden Administration Over Decision to Block Merger
Jan 6 2025 // U.S. President Joe Biden violated the Constitution by blocking Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion bid for U.S. Steel through a sham national security review, the companies alleged in a lawsuit they said was filed on...
#6 Court Orders Start to Expose ‘Startling’ Data on Litigation Funding Sources
Oct 8 2024 // There is no federal law that requires the disclosure of litigation funding agreements in court cases, but some disturbing insight has been found in individual jurisdictions that have rules to increase transparency,...
#7 Effort to Close Litigation Funding Tax Loophole Added to Federal Budget Bill
Jun 17 2025 // Within changes submitted by U.S. Senate Republicans to President Donald Trump’s tax bill is language that would close a tax “loophole” for third-party litigation funders. According to text released Monday...
#8 FTC Antitrust Merger Rules Issued After Rare, Bipartisan Compromise
Oct 30 2024 // A new US antitrust rule requiring companies to give the government more information on their mergers and acquisitions came with a surprise twist: The Federal Trade Commission passed it with a rare 5-0 vote. The...
#9 Inszone Acquires South Dakota’s Kouri & Associates
Feb 26 2025 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Kouri & Associates Inc., a Sioux Falls-based agency with a legacy dating back to 1970. This latest acquisition strengthens Inszone’s footprint in the...
#10 Buffett’s Insurance Leader Ajit Jain Sells Large Part of Berkshire Stake
Sep 13 2024 // Ajit Jain, the longtime top insurance executive at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway BRKa.N, sold more than half of his Class A shares in the conglomerate this week. According to a Wednesday night regulatory...
#11 Viewpoint: Reinsurers Reach Peak Performance as Market Stabilizes; M&A on Hold
Sep 9 2024 // The reinsurance market has reached an equilibrium, with increased capital supply from accumulated earnings meeting higher demand for reinsurance protection from cedents. As such, margins will peak in 2024, although...
#12 FCC Approves Verizon Deal to Acquire Frontier After DEI Changes
May 20 2025 // The Federal Communications Commission said it was approving Verizon Communication’s $20 billion deal to acquire fiber-optic internet providers Frontier Communications after the largest U.S. telecom company agreed to...
#13 FEMA Doesn’t Have Enough Funding to Last Through Hurricane Season, Mayorkas Warns
Oct 4 2024 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency can meet immediate needs but does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters Wednesday. The agency...
#14 Sica Fletcher Index: Agency-Broker M&A Down Slightly in First Half 2024
Aug 13 2024 // The 22 acquirers that make up the Sica Fletcher Index were involved in 242 agent-broker deals in the first six months of 2024, totaling $635 million in revenue. That is a 45% drop in revenue from what was acquired during...
#15 Thriving Southern Cities Face Economic Threat From Funding Cuts
Jun 20 2025 // The same economic anchor that propelled North Carolina’s Research Triangle into one of America’s most thriving economies now risks becoming a liability. Major academic institutions in the community have helped...
#16 Aviva Reaches Initial £3.6 Billion Deal to Buy Direct Line
Dec 6 2024 // Aviva Plc reached a preliminary agreement to buy Direct Line Insurance Group Plc for £3.6 billion ($4.6 billion) in a deal that would create the UK’s largest motor insurer. London-listed Aviva sweetened its bid in...
#17 Gallagher to Buy AssuredPartners for $13.5B to Increase Mid-Market Reach
Dec 9 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher this morning said it has entered into an agreement to acquire AssuredPartners for $13.45 billion cash to expand its reach in the U.S. middle-market property/casualty and employee benefits...
#18 Brown & Brown to Acquire Risk Strategies, One80 Parent for $9.8 Billion
Jun 10 2025 // Brown & Brown Inc. said it has entered into an agreement to buy Accession Risk Management, the parent company of specialty brokerage firm Risk Strategies and wholesaler One80 Intermediaries, for about $9.8...
#19 Viewpoint: Strategies for Brokers as M&A Slows and Insurance Rates Soften
Dec 19 2024 // The brokerage industry is adapting to a changing landscape as macroeconomic conditions temper the tailwinds that have driven growth in recent years. High interest rates, historical valuations, and tighter access to capital...
#20 Morocco’s Wafa Assurance to Acquire Egypt’s Delta Insurance
Jun 17 2025 // Wafa Assurance has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Egypt’s Delta Insurance from its current owner Egypt Kuwait Holding Company, as it targets an expansion of its operations in the Egyptian market, it said on...
