All the headlines from our Alliant Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 3 2017 // Appleton, Wisconsin-based SECURA Insurance promoted Marty Arnold to senior vice president and chief underwriting officer, and Garth Wicinsky to senior vice president and chief administrative officer.Arnold joined SECURA in...
Mar 30 2017 // A jury in Fresno, Calif. has ruled against Aon Corp. in yet another poaching lawsuit that involves the U.K. brokerage and rival Alliant Insurance Services.The jury rejected every claim by Aon levied against Newport Beach,...
Mar 28 2017 // Sajeo Arguelles has joined Alliant Insurance Services’s employee benefits group as vice president in its New Orleans office.Arguelles will work with clients throughout the Southeast to design and deliver benefits...
Mar 22 2017 // A legal battle between two insurance brokerages over whether a former employee violated non-compete agreements and poached numerous employees is not over yet but the brokerage bringing the charges has scored key early...
Mar 20 2017 // Teri Brinson, executive vice president of M.D. Jensvold & Co., has taken over as president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association (TSLA) for 2017.She brings more than 35 years of experience and leadership in the...
Mar 16 2017 // Kenneth Cooksey has joined Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. as first vice president in the company’s Alliant Americas division. Cooksey will design and deploy a range of risk management and...
Mar 13 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Burkhardt Consulting LLC.Burkhardt joins Alliant’s employee benefits group, with the firm continuing to service clients from its Coeur...
Mar 6 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Jan Nowak first vice president Nowak has more than 37 years of insurance brokerage experience and extensive knowledge of marine-related exposures. She has worked with vessel...
Mar 6 2017 // Bruce Carnegie-Brown will become the chairman of Lloyd’s following a meeting of the Council of Lloyd’s where his appointment as successor to John Nelson was approved unanimously. His appointment also was...
Feb 27 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., has added Tom Hood to its energy and marine group in New Orleans. As first vice president, Hood will provide targeted insurance, risk management and...
Feb 20 2017 // Cobbs Allen, a national insurance and risk management firm headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has hired Tyrenda Williams-Reed as its new Human Resources director.Reed will be responsible for company-wide human resource...