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AmWINS CEO DeCarlo Named 2014 Honoree of City of Hope Charity

Dec 19 2013 // The City of Hope and the National Insurance Industry Council said M. Steven DeCarlo, CEO of Charlotte, North Carolina-based AmWINS Group Inc., will be honored at the NIIC’s 2014 Spirit of Life Award dinner for City...

Business Moves

Dec 16 2013 // AmWINS Acquires Bliss & Glennon, eReinsureAmWINS Group Inc. has reached a definitive agreement with Fortegra Financial Corp. to acquire Bliss & Glennon, an excess and surplus lines wholesale insurance broker and...

AmWINS to Acquire Bliss & Glennon in California from Fortegra

Dec 3 2013 // AmWINS Group Inc. has reached a definitive agreement with Fortegra Financial Corp. to acquire Bliss & Glennon, an excess and surplus lines wholesale insurance broker and managing general agency in California, and...

AmWINS to Acquire Bliss & Glennon and eReinsure from Fortegra

Dec 3 2013 // North Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. has agreed to a deal with Fortegra Financial Corp. to acquire both Bliss & Glennon, an excess and surplus lines wholesale insurance broker and managing...

AmWINS Group Seeks $175M Acquisition Loan

Oct 23 2013 // North Carolina-based wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group Inc. is seeking a $175 million add-on term loan for an acquisition.The insurance broker owned by private-equity firm New Mountain Capital LLC may pay interest at 3.75...

Mills of Willis Joins AmWINS Workers’ Compensation Unit, American Equity

May 22 2013 // Andrea Mills has joined American Equity Underwriters (AEU) in Mobile, Alabama as senior vice president and director of Strategic Business Development. AEU is a division of wholesale broker AmWINS Group, based in Charlotte,...

Shestack to Lead New AmWINS Voluntary Benefits Practice

May 22 2013 // Wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Benefits has opened a voluntary benefits division to offer supplemental benefits to benefit professionals and their clients including life, dental, vision, accident, short-term...

2012 Insurance M&A Snapshot

Mar 25 2013 // Here is a snapshot of the property/casualty insurance industry merger and acquisition activity reported byInsurance Journal in 2012.Major carrier transactions included Nationwide’s acquisition of Harleysville, The...

People – Southeast

Feb 25 2013 // Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro announced that Thomas Zacharopoulos, managing principal and the firm’s market relations leader, will assume the role of Chicago operations leader.The move to...

AmWins Acquires Long-Term Care Specialist CIMI Professional

Feb 6 2013 // AmWINS Program Underwriters (APU), an AmWINS Group company, has acquired certain assets of CIMI Professional. CIMI Professional is a long-term care managing general underwriter (MGU) and a division of Chandler Insurance...

AmWINS Forms Non-Standard Auto Specialty Division

Jan 30 2013 // AmWINS Group, Inc. has combined its various non-standard auto operating entities to create AmWINS Specialty Auto (ASA), a new operation within the AmWINS Underwriting Division.The combined entities include Newport General...

AmWins Group to Acquire Georgia-Based Gresham & Associates

Dec 19 2012 // AmWINS Group Inc. — the largest wholesale insurance brokerage in the U.S. by premiums placed — announced that it reached a definitive agreement to acquire Gresham & Associates Inc. Gresham &...

AmWINS to Offer Network Security Privacy Liability Program for Hospitals

Nov 20 2012 // AmWINS Brokerage of the Carolinas, through its partnership with Premier Insurance Management Services Inc. (PIMS) and Beazley plc, is now offering a data privacy and network security insurance product for hospitals. The...

Business Moves – Midwest

Oct 8 2012 // AmWINSNorth Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. has partnered with two insurance industry executives, Terry Younghanz and Richard Parks, to form a new managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on...

AmWINS Forms Managing General Underwriter with Former Rockhill Execs

Sep 19 2012 // North Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. said it has partnered with two insurance industry executives, Terry Younghanz and Richard Parks, to form a new managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on...

AmWINS Buys Wisconsin School Insurance Broker, Smic

Sep 4 2012 // Insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Special Markets Insurance Consultants, Inc. Smic is headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin with a sales office in Chicago, Illinois.Founded in 1985 by Nora Stransky, Smic...

Business Moves – Midwest

Jun 18 2012 // strong>Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Grossman & AssociatesArthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Grossman & Associates Inc. in Beachwood, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1980,...

AmWINS Group Completes Recapitalization Deal

Jun 8 2012 // AmWINS Group Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C., has completed its recapitalization with the private equity firm New Mountain Capital of New York.As announced on April 17, 2012, the wholesale insurance broker reported that its...

Business Moves – Southeast

May 7 2012 // AmWINS, New Mountain CapitalWholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. announced today that its management and employee shareholders have agreed on a $1.3 billion recapitalization with private equity firm New Mountain...

AmWINS Transportation Underwriters, Inc. Announces New Texas Long Haul Trucking Program

Apr 26 2012 // Burlington, NC, 04/26/12 -AmWINS Transportation Underwriters, an A+ XV Admitted Carrier, is proud to be 1 of only 3 MGAs with access to a new long haul trucking program for TX trucking operations.The new program limits up...