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N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs bring another suit, this time against Acordia

Jan 8 2007 // The attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois and New York continued their campaign against undisclosed compensation and account steering by simultaneously bringing suit against one of the nation’s largest insurance...

N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs bring another suit, this time against Acordia

Jan 7 2007 // News Currents The attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois and New York continued their campaign against undisclosed compensation and account steering by simultaneously bringing suit against one of the nation’s...

N.Y., Conn., Ill. AGs Bring Another Suit, This Time Against Acordia

Dec 19 2006 // The attorneys general of Connecticut, Illinois and New York continued their campaign against undisclosed compensation and account steering by simultaneously bringing suit today against one of the nation’s largest...

Jan 1 2006 // Jordan B. Lotsoff recently joined Integro as principal in the Casualty Practice Group in the Chicago office. Lotsoff, with more than 15 years experience in commercial insurance, will be responsible for complex casualty...

Wells Fargo Chooses Wissinger to Lead Acordia Inc.

Dec 15 2005 // Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) has named Peter Wissinger to head Acordia Inc., the Chicago-based Wells Fargo company which is the nation’s fifth largest insurance broker. Wissinger, a 20-year Wells Fargo veteran,...

News Briefs

Oct 17 2005 // OHIO Hospital Group Sues WC Bureau: The Ohio Hospital Association and a member hospital sued the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation in September on claims the state did not follow legal processes for a $50 million...

Wells Fargo Acquires JS Crop Insurance

Sep 28 2005 // Wells Fargo Insurance, Inc., a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, has acquired the crop insurance business from Portland, Indiana-based JS Crop Insurance, Inc. (JS Crop), expanding Wells Fargo’s reach to...

The Hartford FSG to Sell Crop Business to Wells Fargo’s Rural Community Insurance Co.

Oct 4 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has reportedly agreed to transfer all its multi-peril crop insurance to Rural Community Insurance Company (RCIC), a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company. Financial terms were...

CitiGroup, Wells Fargo and BB&T Lead Bank Holding Cos. in Insurance Brokerage Fee Income

Aug 30 2004 // CitiGroup (New York, N.Y.), Wells Fargo & Company (San Francisco, Calif.), and BB&T Corporation (Charlotte, N.C.) lead bank holding companies in insurance brokerage fee income year-to-date through June 30, 2004,...

Acordia Inc. Acquires Speare & Company

Jun 14 2004 // Acordia Inc., America’s fifth largest insurance brokerage and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, acquired Speare & Company, one of the largest privately held insurance brokerages in the western United...

Acordia Acquires Feeney Durler West Insurance Services

Jan 21 2004 // Acordia,Inc., the fifth largest insurance brokerage in the U.S., and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company, acquired Feeney Durler West Insurance Services, LLC. The agency’s professional staff will continue...

Acordia’s New CEO to Continue Wells Fargo Integration

Feb 6 2003 // Kevin Conboy will become Chicago-based brokerage Acordia Inc.’s new president and CEO March 1. Conboy has been with Acordia, a Wells Fargo & Co. subsidiary, for 17 years and has been chief operating officer...

Financial Services Integration: A Question of Privacy

Jun 11 2001 // Mailboxes throughout the West have been rapidly filling with literature outlining the “Privacy Policy” of virtually every organization that has ever taken a credit application. As the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...

Financial Services Integration: A Question of Privacy

Jun 4 2001 // Mailboxes throughout the West have been rapidly filling with literature outlining the “Privacy Policy” of virtually every organization that has ever taken a credit application. As the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...

Wells Fargo Acquires ACO Brokerage Holding Corp.

May 3 2001 // Wells Fargo & Company announced the completed acquisition of ACO Brokerage Holding Corporation, parent company of Acordia Inc., one of the nation’s largest independent property/casualty insurance...

Wells Fargo Purchases ACO Brokerage Holdings

Mar 9 2001 // Wells Fargo & Co. and ACO Brokerage Holdings Corp. have signed a definitive agreement for Wells Fargo to purchase ACO, parent company of Acordia, Inc., one of the nation’s largest independent...

Wells Fargo Selects InsureZone to Launch Internet

Dec 20 2000 // Insurance InsureZone has been selected by Wells Fargo & Co. to provide small business insurance to Wells Fargo customers over the Internet. Wells Fargo, through its insurance subsidiary, Wells Fargo Insurance, has...

Conseco Sells Some Assets to Wells Fargo

Dec 12 2000 // Conseco Inc. has signed an agreement to sell most of the assets of Conseco Finance’s Vendor Services unit to Wells Fargo Financial Leasing Inc. for roughly $160 million in cash. Vendor Services is one of...

First Security Shareholders Approve Wells Fargo Merger

Aug 1 2000 // Under the terms of the agreement, approved by the boards of both companies, First Security stockholders will receive 0.355 of a share of Wells Fargo common stock in exchange for each share of First Security common stock....