All the headlines from our Alliant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based insurance and risk management services firm, Alliant Insurance Services, has opened an office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The office will provide a new strategic location for the company’s...
Aug 7 2017 // Markel, State NationalMarkel Corp. will acquire Texas-based State National Companies Inc. for $919 million, a deal that the Virginia-based insurer and reinsurer said will help diversify its underwriting and revenue...
Aug 1 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Jason VanderYacht a vice president within its energy and marine group. VanderYacht will be based in Los Angeles, Calif. He has experience covering an array of marine risks and a...
Jul 28 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. is using confidential information obtained during a failed bid for Wells Fargo & Co.’s commercial insurance business to poach top sales executives, according to a lawsuit filed by...
Jul 24 2017 // Penn Community Bank, a Bucks County, Penn.-based independent, mutual financial organization, has hired three professionals to its administrative, lending and insurance teams.Peter R. Palumbo joins Penn Community Bank as a...
Jul 14 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has added Jennifer Varanese as vice president within the company’s Employee Benefits Group in the Columbus, Ohio. Varanese joins Alliant with extensive...
Jul 13 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Fair Haven, N.J.-based Boynton & Boynton Insurance Professionals in an effort to continue expanding its footprint throughout the northeast region of the U.S. Terms of the...
Jul 10 2017 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Metromile has named Carrie Dolan chief financial officer.Dolan most recently served as CFO of Lending Club, an online credit marketplace connecting borrowers and investors. Prior to Lending...
Jul 6 2017 // Alliant has hired Martin Hill as it continues to expand the presence of its Employee Benefits Group throughout the eastern U.S.As vice president, Hill, who is based in Pennsylvania, will leverage his background in...
Jun 30 2017 // Alliant has hired Kevin T. Kenny to its Alliant Americas division. In his new role, the New York-based executive vice president and managing director will play an integral role in expanding the middle market...
Jun 28 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Andrew Laing a producer within the company’s Alliant Americas middle market division. Laing will be based in Portland, Ore. and be responsible for the design and delivery of...
Jun 26 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has emerged as the front-runner to buy Wells Fargo & Co.’s insurance business, people familiar with the matter said.The San Francisco-based bank could announce a sale of its Wells...
Jun 22 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Reshma Dalia to chief financial officer of Alliant’s specialty group. Dalia will work with the management team on operational, financial and...
May 15 2017 // Validus Holdings Ltd. has completed its acquisition of Crop Risk Services business (CRS), a primary crop insurance managing general agent, from Archer Daniels Midland Co.In the deal that was announced in January, ADM...
May 11 2017 // An ongoing legal battle between two large national insurance brokerage firms over employee poaching is a byproduct of a hazard faced in the financial services industries where relationships and knowledge of business...
May 2 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Summit Insurance Resource Group in Sandpoint, Idaho.Summit will operate as part of Alliant Americas, which provides the middle market with regionally focused insurance products...
Apr 17 2017 // Kristin S. Palmer has been named senior vice president and head of Communications at the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.).Palmer previously was vice president, Media Relations, for the AARP, a nonprofit...
Apr 12 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has combined its portfolio of specialty insurance practices under one banner forming the Alliant specialty group.The group will be led by Peter Arkley, who is with the...
Apr 5 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired SES Insurance Brokerage Services Inc. in Santa Ana, Calif. SES will join Alliant MGA and program administrator. The executive leadership team of SES will continue to operate the...
Apr 3 2017 // A legal battle between two insurance brokerages over whether a former employee violated noncompete agreements and poached numerous employees is not over yet, but the brokerage bringing the charges has scored key early...