All the headlines from our Amwins Group Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2009 // AmWINS Group CEO M. Steven DeCarlo has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award in the Business and Financial Services category in the Carolinas.According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award...
Mar 23 2009 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.Nevada Insurance Commissioner Scott J. Kipper has approved a rate change for homeowners insurance premiums as filed by State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. The rate change will become effective...
Mar 5 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based insurance wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired three medical stop loss wholesalers in three separate regions of the country. The firms acquired are American Stop Loss...
Feb 23 2009 // Lynn Henricks has joined wholesaler AmWINS Brokerage of Florida as vice president. Formerly of Beecher Carlson, Henricks has 20 years of insurance industry experience and will focus on property and casualty brokerage at...
Feb 23 2009 // Chris Pope has joined AmWINS Insurance Brokerage of California’s Santa Ana office as vice president and casualty broker. He has experience in the wholesale brokerage industry, with 20 years of developing expertise in...
Jan 22 2009 // Jennifer M. Wilson has joined wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Brokerage of Florida as vice president and casualty broker. Wilson joins AmWINS from Florida Risk Specialists (Lexington), where she was a casualty manager...
Sep 15 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has named Ben Francavilla its director of Program Development. In this role, Francavilla will be responsible for driving the overall marketing...
Sep 11 2008 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. has formed an energy practice within its brokerage division. The energy practice, based in the company’s Houston office, will be led by Pascal Ray and...
Aug 29 2008 // Brian Manassero has joined AmWINS Insurance Brokerage of California’s Chatsworth office as a vice president. He will specialize in property and product liability placements, and has 12 years of insurance industry...
Aug 27 2008 // Rich Fernandez of wholesaler AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia has been promoted to senior vice president. Fernandez has been with AmWINS for three years, and is a member of AmWINS’ Financial Risk Group where he serves as...
Aug 4 2008 // Colemont Insurance Brokers promoted Matt Carpenter to assistant vice president in the company’s Chicago office.Carpenter joined Colemont in 2002, specializing in brokering casualty lines. His expertise has since...
Aug 4 2008 // Jacksonville, Florida-based insurer The Main Street America Group named Joe Meholic president of its Richmond, Virginia region.In his new role as regional president, Meholic will be accountable for the direction,...
Jul 18 2008 // United America Indemnity Ltd. (UAI), based in the Cayman Islands, appointed Scott Reynolds as president of United National Group, one of UAI’s three U.S. divisions. The appointment is effective July 28, 2008.Reynolds...
Jul 18 2008 // Gary Buchanan has joined AmWINS Brokerage of New York of vice president. With over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, Buchanan will focus mainly on financial risk placements, including directors and...
Jul 18 2008 // United America Indemnity appointed Scott Reynolds as president of United National Group, one of UAI’s three U.S. divisions located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Reynolds will report directly to Larry A. Frakes,...
Jun 11 2008 // Burlington, N.C.-based AmWINS Transportation Underwriters launched several new insurance programs for the trucking and commercial auto industry. These national programs include coverage for truck broker’s contingent...
May 5 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group Inc. acquired Beacon Risk Strategies, a Seattle-based managing general underwriter of excess-loss benefits insurance. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1999, Beacon...
Apr 18 2008 // National wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. announced that James Drinkwater has been named president of its AmWINS Brokerage division effective immediately.In this role, Drinkwater will be responsible for the...
Apr 15 2008 // Charlotte, N.C.-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. reported that Donna Hargrove has been hired as general counsel. Prior to joining AmWINS, Hargrove served as lead corporate in-house counsel for...
Mar 20 2008 // Sheryl Smith has joined AmWINS Insurance Brokerage of California as senior vice president. Formerly assistant vice president at Crump Insurance Services, Smith has 25 years of insurance industry experience, from claims...