Steve Hearn to Leave Willis for CEO Role at Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford
Willis Group Holdings confirmed that Deputy CEO Steve Hearn has decided to leave the company and will take up the role of CEO at Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSW) at the beginning of November. The announcement came one day …
Willis Completes 85% Stake Buy in UK Wholesale Broker Miller
Willis Group Holdings announced that following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, it has completed its investment in Miller Insurance Services LLP, thereby creating a major London wholesale specialist insurance brokerage firm. “The transaction combines the firms’ respective wholesale businesses …
Willis CEO: Gras Savoye Acquisition Part of Strategy to Expand Global Reach
Willis Group Holdings plc, the third-largest insurance broker, offered to buy the 70 percent of Gras Savoye that it doesn’t already own to expand in France, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Willis will pay 550 million euros ($590 million), …
Some Insurers Exclude Ebola; Others Offer New Products
As fear of Ebola infections spreads to developed economies, U.S. and British insurance companies have begun writing Ebola exclusions into standard policies to cover hospitals, event organizers and other businesses vulnerable to local disruptions. As a result, new policies and …
William Gallagher, Miller Insurance Offer Ebola Business Interruption Cover
Retail insurance broker William Gallagher Associates of Boston and Miller Insurance Services, a London-based independent specialist insurance broker, have partnered to launch Pandemic Disease Business Interruption Insurance to respond to loss of income arising directly out of shutdowns of healthcare …
Mullis Joins Miller in London
Tim Mullis has joined Miller Insurance Services in London to produce accident and health treaty reinsurance business. Mullis has 30 years’ insurance market experience, almost exclusively in production and broking. He specializes in personal accident reinsurance on a treaty basis …
Ng Joins Miller’s Treaty Reinsurance Team in Hong Kong
Joe Ng has joined Miller Insurance Services in Hong Kong in a treaty reinsurance business production role. Before joining Miller, Joe Ng spent 43 years at China Taiping Group in various roles, most recently as deputy general manager and a …
MacDonald to Head Miller’s New Combined P&C Team
UK specialist insurance and reinsurance broker Miller Insurance Services LLP announced that it is combining its property and casualty specialists into one business area headed by Ken MacDonald. Miller said the new structure would enhance the service it “provides to …
UK’s Miller Appoints Weaver as Head of Asia
Miller Insurance Services LLP, the UK-based specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, has appointed Simon Weaver as Head of Asia as of September 1, 2013 He joins Miller from JLT Asia where he was CEO of JLT Specialty Asia, responsible for …
