Ryan Specialty Group News

Ryan Specialty Group Announces Landmark Healthcare Partnership With Lloyd’s Underwriters

Chicago, IL – 6/17/14 – Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) announces the formation of RSGUM Healthcare, a new healthcare and life science underwriting facility, in partnership with some of the strongest and most experienced healthcare and life science Underwriters at …

Ryan Specialty Group Launches Healthcare Partnership with Lloyd’s Underwriters

Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) has formed RSGUM Healthcare, a new healthcare and life science underwriting facility, in partnership with the healthcare and life science underwriters at Lloyd’s of London. Lloyd’s support for this comes from Amlin, Chaucer, Catlin, Hiscox, …

R-T Specialty Acquires Blais Excess & Surplus Agency of Texas

Ryan Specialty Group’s wholesale brokerage R-T Specialty LLC (RT) has acquired Blais Excess & Surplus Agency of Texas Ltd. (Blais), an independent, specialty wholesale broker with offices in Dallas and Houston. Blais President Philip L. Blais acquired the agency, which …

ANV, Ryan Specialty Complete Managing Agency Combination

ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch-headquartered specialty insurance business founded by CEO R. Matthew Fairfield, and Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) confirmed the successful completion of the previously announced transaction to combine their Lloyd’s managing agency operations, ANV Syndicate Management Limited …

R-T Specialty Appoints Senior VP for Property Division in New York

R-T Specialty, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group based in Chicago, announced the appointment of Meredith Dyson as a senior vice president for its property division. She is based in R-T Specialty’s New York office. Dyson brings over …

WKFC Launches Miscellaneous Professional Liability Program

Ryan Specialty Group’s WKFC has launched a miscellaneous professional liability program with the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. (Chubb). The miscellaneous professional program is available for more than 100 classes of business that are not covered by traditional coverage. The …

ANV in Strategic Deal with Ryan Specialty for Lloyd’s Managing Agency Jubilee

ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch-headquartered specialty insurance business founded by CEO R. Matthew Fairfield, and Ryan Specialty Group, LLC announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine their Lloyd’s managing agency operations, ANV Syndicate Management Limited (ASML) and …

Ryan Specialty Group Announces Merger of S.H. Smith & Co. Into R-T Specialty

Ryan Specialty Group LLC today announced that it reached agreement to merge S.H. Smith & Company Inc. into R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. S.H. Smith & Company …

ThinkRisk Appoints Product Development Director in New York

Ryan Specialty Group’s ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency recently appointed Paul Novick as director of product development and marketing. Based in New York, he will lead the marketing and distribution strategy for an admitted program offering advertising and content, data security and …

Ryan Specialty Group’s ThinkRisk Announces New Hires in Northeast

Ryan Specialty Group’s ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency announced three new hires in its Northeast offices: Jonathan Koppel, Katie Duff and Nicole Simmons. Koppel joins ThinkRisk as a senior underwriter. He is based in ThinkRisk’s new Philadelphia office, underwriting converging risk liability …