All the headlines from our Amwins Group Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 4 2016 // Effective January 1, 2016, the group of five Insurance Innovators wholesale insurance brokerages known as The III Group has been renamed AmWINS Access Insurance Services, a division of AmWINS Group Inc. The III...
Sep 7 2015 // Georgia-based INSUREtrust has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team.Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs has 15 years of insurance experience,...
Sep 7 2015 // Steve DeCarloNow that traditional reinsurers are adjusting to the idea that third-party capital providers have moved into their space, managing general agents (MGA) may be next to feel the negative impact of new capital,...
Aug 10 2015 // AmWINS has added Matt Brott, Rob Vecchio, and Nick Oliver to its Southeast area offices.Brott joined AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia on July 24 as executive vice president. He has more than 13 years of experience, most...
Aug 3 2015 // Wholesale broker AmWINS Group Inc. announced today its acquisition of The III Group, a managing general agent and wholesale broker based in Glenside, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in...
Jul 7 2015 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, announced today the launch of a new dedicated excess facility designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for cyber liability...
Jun 1 2015 // There is a shift happening in the small business segment and the insurance industry is aware and ready for it. The small businesses that survived the recession are different now, say underwriters. They have had to invest...
Apr 20 2015 // American International Group Inc.named Gaurav D. Garg as chief executive officer, Personal Insurance. The appointment marks the return of Garg to AIG, where he held various personal insurance roles for 12 years before...
Apr 14 2015 // Specialty broker AmWINS Group Inc. has launched an Engineered Risk Practice within its brokerage division.The Highly Protected Risk (HPR)/Engineered Risk practice handles property placements for insureds with generally...
Apr 9 2015 // AmWINS Group Inc. appointed David Scruggs as chief executive officer of AmWINS Specialty Auto (ASA), based in Richardson, Texas. Scruggs previously served as president of ASA. In his new role, Scruggs will be responsible...
Apr 9 2015 // AmWINS Brokerage of the Mid Atlantic hired John Carlsen as senior vice president. Carlsen specializes in public entity risks, with an emphasis on CAT/natural disaster exposures. Prior to joining AmWINS, he was executive...
Jan 26 2015 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Swift was named to the additional post of chairman in a transition that occurred earlier than the insurer had initially planned. Swift, 53,...
Jan 9 2015 // Effective Jan. 1, 2015, The Walker Group, an AmWINS Group company, has changed its name to AmWINS Brokerage of New York to expand AmWINS Group’s brand in New York state. Located in Syracuse and Amherst, New York, The...
Jan 7 2015 // Wholesale broker AmWINS Group Inc. has launched a fifth division, AmWINS Access, which is dedicated to small account binding authority business.In conjunction with the launch of this new division, offices of Gresham &...
Dec 15 2014 // The past year will be remembered as a special year for the City of Hope and its insurance industry supporters. The industry, which has been supporting the cancer treatment and research center for 36 years, broke all...
Jul 17 2014 // Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and new ridesharing companies have been cropping up...
Jul 7 2014 // Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and startup ridesharing companies have been cropping up...
Jul 1 2014 // AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Cabrillo Pacific Insurance Services, a non-standard auto insurance managing general agent, and Tidewater Pacific Adjusters, the administrator that manages claims and appraisal functions for...
Jan 13 2014 // Brown & Brown, ICABrown & Brown Inc. has acquired certain assets of insurance claims adjusting firm ICA Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C. Terms were not disclosed. With annualized net revenues of approximately $13.2...
Jan 2 2014 // AmWINS Group Inc. completed its acquisition of Bliss & Glennon and eReinsure.AmWINS signed an agreement to acquire the firms from Fortegra Financial Corp. on Dec. 2. Terms were not disclosed.Bliss & Glennon is an...