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Colemont Texas Now Operating as AmWINS Brokerage of Texas

Dec 1 2010 // AmWINS Group announced that effective Dec. 1, the Texas operations of Colemont Insurance Brokers has been officially renamed AmWINS Brokerage of Texas.AmWINS and Colemont announced in April 2010 that they planned to merge....

Zurich Partners with AmWins to Expand Accident, Health Products

Nov 9 2010 // Zurich in North America has formed a new relationship with wholesale broker AmWINS Group Benefits (AmWINS). This is the second relationship Zurich has formalized to further its growth plan in the program accident and...

AmWins Names Exec Appointments to Colemont Global Group

Oct 26 2010 // Skip Cooper, president of AmWINS, has been appointed as CEO of Colemont Global Group Limited (CGGL) and Colemont Insurance Brokers Limited (CIBL), announced the AmWins Group Inc.Jeremy Underwood, currently non-executive...

AmWINS Launches Motorsports Insurance Program

Oct 7 2010 // AmWINS Transportation Underwriters, Inc. has expanded their underwriting entity into the motorsports insurance niche. Concentrating solely on motorsports business, their new motorsports group includes Mark Maucere, senior...

Ryan Group Denies Wrongdoing by Former Employee

Sep 20 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...

AmWINS/Colemont Acquires So. Korea’s CMK Insurance Brokers

Sep 8 2010 // Colemont Global Group, the international division of wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc., has acquired a majority share of CMK Insurance Brokers Company Limited.CMK Insurance Brokers will operate under the trade...

Ryan Group Denies Any Wrongdoing by Former AmWINS Employee

Sep 7 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...

North Carolina’s AmWINS Sells Fresno Office

Aug 31 2010 // Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group, Inc. and Crouse and Associates Insurance Services are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement for Crouse and Associates to acquire AmWINS’ Fresno office effective...

As the Wholesale World Turns

Jul 19 2010 // As goes the circle of life, so goes the wholesale insurance broker world. Not even the sixth year of a soft market cycle has deterred industry veterans from launching new wholesale businesses or creating larger ones. Many...

AmWINS CEO DeCarlo on Colemont Merger, Texas and Going Global

May 3 2010 // The acquisition of wholesale insurance broker Colemont Insurance Brokers by its competitor AmWINS Group gives AmWINS entry into international markets for the first time and a bigger presence in Texas, where Colemont is...

AmWINS CEO DeCarlo on Colemont Merger and Going Global

May 3 2010 // The acquisition of wholesale insurance broker Colemont Insurance Brokers by its competitor AmWINS Group gives AmWINS entry into international markets for the first time and a bigger presence in Texas, where Colemont is...

AmWINS CEO DeCarlo on Colemont Merger, Texas and Going Global

May 3 2010 // The acquisition of wholesale insurance broker Colemont Insurance Brokers by its competitor AmWINS Group gives AmWINS entry into international markets for the first time and a bigger presence in Texas, where Colemont is...

AmWINS CEO DeCarlo on Colemont Merger, Texas and Going Global

May 3 2010 // The acquisition of wholesale insurance broker Colemont Insurance Brokers by its competitor AmWINS Group gives AmWINS entry into international markets for the first time and a bigger presence in Texas, where Colemont is...

Wholesale Insurance Brokers AmWINS, Colemont Merge

Apr 19 2010 // AmWINS Group, Inc. and Colemont Insurance Brokers announced that the two companies will be combined to form a specialty insurance distributor placing more than $4.8 billion in annual premiums with more than 1,800 employees...

AmWINS CEO DeCarlo on Colemont Merger, Texas and Going Global

Apr 14 2010 // The acquisition of wholesale insurance broker Colemont Insurance Brokers by its competitor AmWINS Group gives AmWINS entry into international markets for the first time and a bigger presence in Texas, where Colemont is...

Wholesale Insurance Brokers AmWINS, Colemont Merge

Apr 9 2010 // AmWINS Group, Inc. and Colemont Insurance Brokers today announced that the two companies will be combined to form a specialty insurance distributor placing more than $4.8 billion in annual premiums with over 1,800...

2009 P/C Insurance Mergers, Acquisitions Large and Small

Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....

AmWINS Names Francavilla President of Program Underwriters

Oct 1 2009 // Charlotte, N.C.-based specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has named Ben Francavilla as president of AmWINS Program Underwriters (APU). In this role, Francavilla will be responsible for the day-to-day operations...

Business Moves

Sep 21 2009 // Fairfax/Odyssey ReFairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. will sell $1 billion in stock to fund the purchase of the shares of Odyssey Re Holdings Corp. that it does not already own. Fairfax reduced its stake in the reinsurer a few...

AmWINS Acquires Group Benefits Unit from Willis HRH

Sep 9 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH.MAG-EB is a wholesale broker of...