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Jan 25 2009 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) named Russell Johnston president and CEO of AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance.Johnston joined AIG in 1990 serving in senior management positions within...

American Pinnacle Partners Announces Acquisition of Consolidated Special Risk Managers, Inc.

Jan 12 2009 // Seal Beach, CA and San Rafael, CA, January 12, 2009 — American Pinnacle Partners, Inc. (“APP”), a holding company of specialty insurance companies, and Consolidated Specialty Risk Managers...

Apex Global Names Beck Managing Director – Business Development

Jan 12 2009 // Dallas-based Apex Global Partners (AGP) has appointed Jay Beck as managing director of Business Development for its Benefits and Consulting Division and senior vice president of the corporation. Beck has twenty years of...

Willis Names Fyfe Managing Director – Latin American Reinsurance

Jan 8 2009 // Willis International, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has announced the appointment of Edward Fyfe as Managing Director of its growing Latin American reinsurance operations, effective immediately. He is based in Lima,...

Garrard to Head Willis Europe; Donovan Named for Australasia

Jan 7 2009 // Willis Group Holdings announced that Adam Garrard has been appointed CEO of Willis Continental Europe and Bill Donovan has been named to succeed him as CEO for Willis Australasia. The appointments were effective January 1,...

Lloyd’s, FSA Approve New MGA for ‘Sportscover’ Syndicate

Jan 6 2009 // The Financial Services Authority and Lloyd’s have given approval for a new managing agency to assume the management of the Sportscover syndicate, 3334 SCS. The new managing agency, Sportscover Underwriting Limited...

Jones Retires From Wells Fargo Insurance; Wood to Lead West Operations

Dec 23 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc. announces that Samuel L Jones, executive vice president of the west region and CEO of ABD Insurance and Financial Services (ABD), will retire from Wells Fargo effective with the merger...

AXIS Capital to Acquire Managing General Agent Dexta

Dec 10 2008 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations of Australian managing general agent Dexta Corporation Pty Ltd. from its shareholders, Ironbridge Capital,...

Central Texas-Based MGA Adds Great American Markets

Dec 3 2008 // TAGA, an independent privately-owned managing general agency based in the Austin, Texas, area, announced it is now managing general agent for Great American Insurance Group to offer admitted property and inland marine...

Program Market’s ‘Best in Class’

Nov 30 2008 // Just two years ago the Target Markets Program Administrators Association launched the TMPAA Best Practice designation as a way to encourage members to look for greater efficiencies in the way they currently do business and...

All Claims Are Local

Nov 30 2008 // In today’s borderless global economy, claims can arise in just about any part of the world where a company does business. Even small and midsize companies with no physical presence outside the United States can find...

Arthur J. Gallagher Buys The HR Group of Tennessee

Nov 20 2008 // International insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported it has acquired The HR Group, LLC in Brentwood, Tennessee. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1996, The HR Group offers...

Iroquois Expands Managing Partner’s Region to Kansas and Missouri

Nov 17 2008 // The Iroquois Group recently announced that Managing Partner Philip Dawson’s management responsibilities have been expanded to incorporate the states of Kansas and Missouri. He currently handles Iroquois’ Great...

Attract and Win Social Services Business with Risk Management Strategies

Nov 16 2008 // Operating a non-profit social service business has always been a challenging balance between meeting constituent needs, funding the organization, and managing operations. At no time has this been more challenging than now,...

Nov 2 2008 // Tom Hughston, executive vice president of North Texas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), has been named to the board of directors of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, a trade association...

Nov 2 2008 // Pete Garvey, current president of Integro Ltd., assumed the additional responsibility of CEO for the insurance broker, succeeding Roger Egan, who has left the company. Garvey has served as president of Integro since 2005....

Montpelier Re Forms Lloyd’s Managing Agent

Oct 24 2008 // Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that it has received approval from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Lloyd’s to establish a wholly owned Lloyd’s Managing Agent subsidiary. The new unit...

Loucaides Joins Lloyd’s Jubilee Managing Agency

Oct 21 2008 // Jubilee Managing Agency, a specialist Lloyd’s insurer, has announced the appointment of Andreas Loucaides, the former CEO of Catlin UK, as Director of Underwriting “to expand its portfolio and diversify its...

Beecher Carlson Names Levene Managing Director, Opens Dallas Office

Oct 20 2008 // Commercial insurance brokerage and risk management consultancy Beecher Carlson has appointed Steve Levene as managing director. Levene will establish an office in Dallas to expand Beecher Carlson’s footprint in...

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Oct 20 2008 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Lionheart Insurance Services hired Pat Piccinonno and Joe Weckerle Jr. to head its newly opened Irvine, Calif., office.Piccinonno, appointed president, has 35 years of insurance management and...