Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and new ridesharing companies have been cropping up everywhere trying to ride the success of the three major …
AmWINS Group Inc. completed its acquisition of Bliss & Glennon and eReinsure. AmWINS signed an agreement to acquire the firms from Fortegra Financial Corp. on Dec. 2. Terms were not disclosed. Bliss & Glennon is an excess and surplus lines …
North Carolina-based wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group Inc. is seeking a $175 million add-on term loan for an acquisition. The insurance broker owned by private-equity firm New Mountain Capital LLC may pay interest at 3.75 percentage points more than the London …
Andrea Mills has joined American Equity Underwriters (AEU) in Mobile, Alabama as senior vice president and director of Strategic Business Development. AEU is a division of wholesale broker AmWINS Group, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. AEU specializes in workers’ compensation …
Wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Benefits has opened a voluntary benefits division to offer supplemental benefits to benefit professionals and their clients including life, dental, vision, accident, short-term disability, critical illness, cancer and medical gap insurance. The Voluntary Benefits Practice …
Gene Eisenmann, a leader in the excess and surplus lines industry in Texas and nationally, has passed away after a long battle with a host of illnesses, his family by his side. A giant of E&S lines, Eisenmann built companies, …
AmWINS Group Inc. — the largest wholesale insurance brokerage in the U.S. by premiums placed — announced that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire Gresham & Associates Inc. Gresham & Associates is a Stockbridge, Georgia-based wholesale insurance broker. The …
North Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. said it has partnered with two insurance industry executives, Terry Younghanz and Richard Parks, to form a new managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on specialty insurance products. Based in Kansas City, the MGU …
Insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Special Markets Insurance Consultants, Inc. Smic is headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin with a sales office in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1985 by Nora Stransky, Smic is a niche managing general underwriter providing …
Wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. announced today that its management and employee shareholders have agreed on a $1.3 billion recapitalization with private equity firm New Mountain Capital of New York. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “This …
