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Captives Can Be an Insurtech Accelerator

Jun 10 2020 // With the immense financial and operational challenges brought on by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many insurers have had to dramatically cut back on insurtech funding. Insurtech solutions were starting to help...

Insurtech MGA Hippo to Buy Its Carrier Partner Spinnaker Insurance

Jun 5 2020 // Home insurance insurtech agency Hippo plans to acquire New Jersey-based Spinnaker Insurance Co., an insurer with which it has has had a three-year partnership.The deal, first reported by Carrier Management, is designed to...

K2 Insurance Services Launches International Re/insurance Platform in London

Jun 1 2020 // K2 Insurance Services, the underwriting and distribution specialist in the U.S. program insurance market, announced the launch of K2 International, a specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriting platform, based in...

K2 Insurance Services Completes Purchase of MGA Pioneer Underwriters

May 29 2020 // K2 Insurance Services LLC, the specialty insurance services holding company, has completed the purchase of Pioneer Underwriters, the London-based managing general agency.The deal was facilitated with a portfolio transfer,...

For Third Point Re, COVID-19 Crisis Hurts, but It Celebrates 1st Underwriting Profit

May 20 2020 // Third Point Re reported a net loss of $183.6 million for the first quarter of 2020 due to COVID-19-related investment volatility – but the company still had big reasons to celebrate. For the first time since its...

Aon Forms Intellectual Property Liability MGA; Taps Lewis to Lead

May 15 2020 // Aon has established an intellectual property liability underwriting platform with levels of capacity it says is the largest known delegated capacity for the risk.IP underwriter Ian Lewis has joined the company to spearhead...

DUAL Acquires Specialty Managing General Agency in New Zealand

May 7 2020 // DUAL, the underwriting arm of Hyperion Insurance Group, announced the acquisition of a controlling interest in New Zealand specialty underwriting agency International Underwriting Agencies (IUA).“This is an excellent...

MGA Platform OneAdvent Buys Property MGA Modus from CFC Underwriting

May 6 2020 // OneAdvent, a London-based managing general agent (MGA) platform, announced the acquisition of Modus Underwriting Ltd., a digital-first MGA focused on providing niche property insurance products to brokers across the...

Breckenridge Insurance Services Welcomes Three Established Brokers

Apr 29 2020 // Atlanta, GA, April 29, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Services is pleased to welcome Michael Silvestri, Tracey Burmingham, AAI and Vance Root as vice presidents/brokers to the company as part of its expansion plans...

XPT Specialty Acquires Texas MGA, LP Risk

Apr 24 2020 // XPT Partners LLC has acquired Texas-based LP Risk Inc., a full service managing general agency (MGA) and surplus lines broker with a wide range of commercial property/casualty coverages distributed to retail agents through...

Worldwide Facilities Reports Record Growth as they Celebrate 50th Anniversary

Apr 24 2020 // Los Angeles, CA, April 24, 2020 – This year, Worldwide Facilities, national wholesale insurance broker, managing general agent and program underwriter, is celebrating 50 years of industry service and five years of record...

Specialist MGA Lions Gate Expands Canada Offering with Environmental Insurance Cover

Apr 23 2020 // Lions Gate Underwriting, the Vancouver-based specialist managing general agent, has launched a new Environmental Insurance product as part of its coverage offering.The program is being underwritten by Great American...

Sompo Int’l Forms Agricultural Insurance Partnership with Portuguese MGA ATLAS

Apr 22 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that its global agriculture platform, AgriSompo, has entered into a partnership with...

One80 Intermediaries Acquires Ohio’s International Excess Program Managers

Apr 14 2020 // One80 Intermediaries (One80), a national wholesale insurance broker and program manager headquartered in Boston, has acquired Beachwood, Ohio-based International Excess Program Managers (IEPM), a wholesale insurance...

MGU Victor Taps Bonfà from US Underwriting Solutions as Country Leader of Victor Italia

Apr 9 2020 // Victor Insurance Holdings, the world’s largest managing general underwriter (MGU), announced the appointment of Matteo Bonfà as country manager, Victor Italia S.r.l., effective immediately.Bonfà is based in Milan...

UK MGA Aqueous Underwriting Offers COVID-Crisis Help for Hospitality, Leisure Clients

Apr 7 2020 // Aqueous Underwriting, a London-based managing general agent, has responded to the coronavirus crisis with a package of measures designed to help its clients in the food, hospitality and leisure sectors, which were forced...

EG Insurance Takes Over Policies of Defunct Windhaven MGA The Hearth

Mar 19 2020 // A new managing general agent has taken over the policies of Windhaven Insurance Company subsidiary The Hearth Group and will begin writing new business in Florida and Texas in the near future.EG Insurance Agency, based in...

Tokio Marine HCC to Buy MGA GCube, Renewable Energy Specialist

Mar 5 2020 // Tokio Marine HCC has agreed to snatch up GCube, a managing general agent with a focus on renewable energy risks.The deal is expected to close in the 2020 second quarter, pending the usual regulatory approval process and...

Industry Executive Dennis DiCapua Joins Breckenridge Insurance Group

Mar 3 2020 // Atlanta, GA, March 3, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Group announced the appointment of Dennis DiCapua as president of its program division, Blue River Underwriters. DiCapua has a demonstrated track record of building...

Agency M&As: Private Equity Still in Driver’s Seat; Digital Agencies Attract Attention

Mar 2 2020 // The private equity bandwagon continued to roll through the insurance agency and brokerage mergers and acquisitions territory in 2019. As many as two-thirds of all deals involved private equity, according to experts. Most...