Latest Insurance Wholesale Headlines

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MGA New Paradigm Aims to Bridge the Natural Catastrophe Protection Gap

Sep 29 2020 // Evan Glassman saw a gap in the property insurance market—literally.Glassman, working as a retail producer in south Florida for most of his career, realized that the insurance industry’s products were not fully...

Envelop Risk Paves the Way as Insurtech Reinsurance MGA

Sep 29 2020 // Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits.“We think we’re the only insurtech firm involved in cyber...

Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Underwriting Apart

Sep 29 2020 // Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model.“For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a strong offering, you...

Finding Niches: Reinsurance MGAs Carving Out Special Market Slices

Sep 29 2020 // Reinsurance managing general agents are a rare breed as opposed to their more prevalent insurance-focused counterparts. The successful reinsurance MGAs have a niche, a focus. What they have in common is they are not...

What Ever Happened to Hedge Fund Reinsurers?

Sep 25 2020 // The latest group of reinsurers to emerge in the Bermuda market is starting to look different. Even the name that once described the cohort has changed in the past five years.And at least one member of the group of...

Home Insurtech MGA Hippo, Topa Insurance End Their 3-Year Partnership

Sep 23 2020 // Property/casualty insurer Topa Insurance Co. and Hippo Enterprises, a technology-driven managing general agency offering homeowners insurance, announced their mutual decision to end their three-year partnership.The move...

In a First, State Farm to Acquire Texas Nonstandard Auto Insurer GAINSCO

Sep 17 2020 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is acquiring Dallas-based nonstandard auto insurer, GAINSCO, in a $400 million cash transaction. It will be the first time in State Farm’s 98-year history that it has...

ACORD’s Innovation Tools Experiencing Soaring Reinsurance Demand

Sep 10 2020 // ACORD, the standard setting body for the global insurance industry, is experiencing a massive jump in global reinsurance and other industry interest in its digital products and services, CEO Bill Pieroni said.The increase...

Simply Business, AXIS Launch Coverage for Home-Based Small Businesses

Sep 9 2020 // Simply Business, Inc., a digital insurance agency offering small business insurance policies on behalf of a panel of carriers, will work with AXIS Insurance on a new product intended for U.S. small business owners who...

One80 Intermediaries Acquires New Jersey’s Equinox Management Group

Sep 3 2020 // One80 Intermediaries, a national wholesale broker, program manager and insurance aggregator headquartered in Boston, Mass., has acquired the Equinox Management Group and its affiliates Meridian Management Group and...

Ryan Specialty Group and All Risks Finalize Merger

Sep 2 2020 // Specialty insurance brokerages Ryan Specialty Group and All Risks have closed on the merger the two firms into Ryan Specialty Group.The deal unites Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group and its nearly $12 billion in premium,...

Home Insurance MGA Hippo Completes Acquisition of Spinnaker Insurance Co.

Sep 1 2020 // Hippo, an insurtech managing general agent focused on home insurance, has completed its acquisition of Spinnaker Insurance Co., with an expansion into additional states next on its plate.The deal, first announced in June,...

Carrie B. Mudd Joins Breckenridge Insurance Services to Grow Transportation Business

Sep 1 2020 // Atlanta, GA, September 1, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Services is pleased to welcome Carrie B. Mudd to the wholesale brokerage and binding firm. Mudd joins the organization as a vice president, underwriter with over 17...

AXIS Partners With AllDigital Specialty MGA on Small Business Platform

Aug 31 2020 // AXIS Insurance and AllDigital Specialty will launch an insurance platform designed for the U.S. small private company management liability market.AXIS will utilize AllDigital’s technology to quote, bind and issue...

Software Firms, MGA Systems and NetRate, Merge

Aug 28 2020 // Two technology providers for managing general agency marketplace are merging their products and firms.MGA Systems Inc., a provider of software for MGAs and excess and surplus brokers, said it has executed a merger with...

How to Build an Insurance or Any Business with Community at the Center

Aug 28 2020 // It’s a common corporate practice to use philanthropic pursuits to improve both their communities and public images. Some organizations donate both funding and manpower through formal philanthropy programs. Others...

Investors Back Startups for Commercial Auto, Climate Risk, High Risk Homes

Aug 24 2020 // An insurtech managing general agency focused on commercial auto insurance has raised $16 million in new Series A financing, a climate-risk related platform has $4.2 million in new seed financing, and a home insurance...

Investors Back Startups for Commercial Auto, Climate Risk, High Risk Homes

Aug 14 2020 // An insurtech managing general agency focused on commercial auto insurance has raised $16 million in new Series A financing, a climate-risk related platform has $4.2 million in new seed financing, and a home insurance...

One80 Intermediaries Acquires Canadian MGA, Strategic Underwriting Managers

Aug 12 2020 // One80 Intermediaries, a Boston-headquartered wholesale broker, program manager, and insurance aggregator, announced it has acquired Strategic Underwriting Managers Inc. (SUM), a Canada-based managing general agent.Terms of...

Rideshare Insurer Buckle Raises $31 Million to Fuel Nationwide Expansion

Aug 5 2020 // Buckle, a digital seller of rideshare insurance, disclosed it has raised $31 million in new venture financing and will use the money to expand operations nationally.HSCM Bermuda and Eos Venture Partners co-led the Series A...