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Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Alabama’s Whitehaven Insurance

Jun 20 2012 // Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Whitehaven Insurance Group, Inc. in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1994, Whitehaven Insurance...

Business Moves – Midwest

Jun 18 2012 // strong>Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Grossman & AssociatesArthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Grossman & Associates Inc. in Beachwood, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1980,...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Broker Benefit Services

Jun 8 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Broker Benefit Services L.L.C. in Chesterfield, Mo. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2001, Broker Benefit Services offers employee benefit brokerage and...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Grossman & Associates

Jun 7 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Grossman & Associates Inc. in Beachwood, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1980, Grossman & Associates is an employee benefits broker and...

William Gallagher Exec Joins First Niagara Risk Management in New York

Jun 4 2012 // First Niagara Risk Management, the Buffalo, N.Y.-based insurance brokerage subsidiary of First Niagara Bank, appointed Kirk Jensen as managing director and senior executive. Jensen’s 25-year career in the insurance...

Business Moves – South Central

Jun 4 2012 // BenefitSpecialists, Higginbotham Insurance GroupHigginbotham Insurance Group and BenefitSpecialists announced the merger of their operations in Houston. BenefitSpecialists, an employee benefits broker in Houston, will...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Professional Claims Managers

May 23 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Professional Claims Managers Inc. in Dallas, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Formed in 1986, Professional Claims Managers (PCM) is a full service third party...

Business Moves – Midwest

May 21 2012 // Neace Lukens, Matrix BenefitsNeace Lukens has completed its acquisition of Matrix Benefits and Consulting Group, a Ft. Wayne, Ind.-based consulting firm. Matrix employees will report to the Neace Lukens Indianapolis office...

Dean, Hanner, Richardson Named Corporate VPs at Arthur J. Gallagher

May 18 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has appointed Eric C. Dean, Jerome S. Hanner and Cara Richardson as corporate vice presidents.Dean joined the company in 2012 and has more than 30 years of business experience in various key...

Gallagher Joins Reliance Global Group in Florida

May 11 2012 // Kevin Gallagher recently joined Reliance Global Group, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, in the position of executive vice president of sales and marketing. Gallagher will be introducing UniSurance, a specialty product for...

A.J. Gallagher Acquires Majority Interest in UK’s Insurance Dialogue Limited

May 9 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that it has acquired a 78.5 percent interest in Insurance Dialogue Limited (IDL) of Bournemouth, England.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Gallagher explained that IDL,...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Schiff, Kreidler-Shell

May 2 2012 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Schiff, Kreidler-Shell Insurance and Risk Services headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Schiff, Kreidler-Shell Insurance and Risk...

Arthur J. Gallagher Profit Up 85% in Q1

May 2 2012 // Global insurance broker and risk management firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. boosted its profit 85 percent in the first quarter, from $15.2 million in 2011 to $28.1 million this year, due to strong growth in commission...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Louisiana’s Besselman & Little Agency

Apr 11 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Besselman & Little Agency of Baton Rouge, La. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1986, Besselman & Little Agency offers a wide range of employee...

Business Moves

Apr 2 2012 // AonAon Corp. stockholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to approve the previously announced change in corporate domicile of the parent company of the Aon group of companies from Delaware to the United...

Fatal Fire Spurs City Smoke Detector Program in Indiana

Mar 21 2012 // In Terre Haute, Ind.’s Highland Lawn Cemetery, at the base of a quiet hill next to a pair of peaceful ponds, a gracefully sweeping grave marker indicates where a young mother and daughter are buried together, both...

A. J. Gallagher Acquires Canadian Broker BenefitLink Resource Group

Mar 19 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of BenefitLink Resource Group, Inc., in Calgary, Canada.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The bulletin said BenefitLink was established in 2001, as an...

William Gallagher Associates Appoints Senior VP in New Jersey

Mar 16 2012 // William Gallagher Associates, a Boston-based broker and risk management services provider, hired David Bachrach as senior vice president in the employee benefits practice in the Princeton, N.J., office. David...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Human Resource Management Systems

Mar 15 2012 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Human Resource Management Systems LLC in Naperville, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1997, Human Resource Management Systems...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Dallas-Based Wischmeyer Benefit Partners

Mar 9 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Wischmeyer Benefit Partners in Dallas, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1988, Wischmeyer Benefit Partners (WBP) offers a wide range of employee...