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Vital Insurance Partners Names Kochman Senior VP of Program Placement

Jan 18 2019 // Vital Insurance Partners, an insurance consulting and program intermediary, has named Curtis Kochman senior vice president of Program Placement.Kochman, who will be based in Pittsburgh, Penn., will be responsible for the...

2019 Cyber Insurance Predictions: Strong Drivers for Growth Ahead

Jan 15 2019 // Cyber insurance is trending upward, the industry is growing, and the technology around it is evolving at a very quick pace. While predictions are always hard to make, here are five trends that are likely to catapult the...

Newly-Privatized AmTrust Announces Leadership Changes

Jan 9 2019 // AmTrust Financial Services announced leadership changes as it moves forward now as a private company.Its $2.95 billion privatization plan was finalized on November 28, 2018 after receipt of all approvals, according to the...

R&Q’s EU Program Manager, Accredited, Forms Partnership with UK MGA Kitsune

Jan 8 2019 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. announced that its wholly owned European subsidiary Accredited Insurance (Europe) Ltd. has signed a new program underwriting partnership with Kitsune Ltd., a UK managing...

Brit Makes ‘Significant’ Investment in Toronto-Based MGU Sutton Special Risk

Jan 8 2019 // Brit Ltd., the London-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced it has made a significant strategic investment in Sutton Special Risk Inc. Financial details of the deal were not released.Toronto-based Sutton is a...

UK MGA Nexus Acquires Hiscox Global Flying

Dec 20 2018 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus Group announced it has completed the acquisition of Hiscox Global Flying (HGF) via an asset purchase into Millstream Underwriting Ltd., a Nexus Group company that...

JLT Re Partners with Insurtech for Auto Insurance MGA Pact

Dec 17 2018 // Reinsurance broker JLT Re North America is partnering with Pact Insurance, a personal auto insurtech company, to develop digital insurance products for mobility risks.Pact is a managing general agency headquartered in San...

Insurance Brokers Sharing in the Sharing Economy

Dec 3 2018 // As more and more consumers click for services and borrow rather than buy, the sharing economy is benefitting.According to Harvard Business Review, the sharing or on-demand economy is attracting more than 22.4 million...

Insurtech MGA Corvus Raises $10 Million to Expand Commercial Lines Business

Nov 27 2018 // Corvus Insurance has secured $10 million in new venture financing that the Boston-based insurtech managing general agency plans to use to jump into additional lines of commercial insurance.Two firms led the startup’s...

AFL Insurance Brokers Finds Cultural Fit with U.S. MGA Zodiac

Nov 19 2018 // AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in...

Patrick Ryan Hails Program Business Amid Retail Consolidation, Moves Toward MGAs

Nov 8 2018 // Insurance industry trailblazer Patrick Ryan thinks the insurance program business could be headed for interesting times given recent consolidation in the retail insurance agency sector, an influx of capital and the recent...

AFL Insurance Brokers Finds Good Strategic, Cultural Fit with U.S. MGA Zodiac

Oct 29 2018 // AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner last month when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in...

To Insure Cyber or Not to Insure Cyber: Cautions and Caveats for Carriers

Oct 22 2018 // While there are some issues with the data, virtually every report shows the cyber insurance market growing. Aon Benfield had it growing 37 percent last year to $1.8 billion. It’s profitable and the loss ratio is in...

Worldwide Facilities Restructures; Promotes Stuckman, Haldeman to President Roles

Oct 16 2018 // National wholesale brokerage, managing general agent and program underwriter Worldwide Facilities has announced a restructuring that reorganizes operations into three divisions: Worldwide Brokerage, Worldwide MGA, and...

MGA Ascent Underwriting Appoints Stops from Brit as Head of Cyber

Oct 4 2018 // Ascent Underwriting, the London-based cyber and specialty lines managing general agent (MGA), has appointed Caspar Stops as head of cyber.Stops, who will take up the role at the end of November, joins from Brit Ltd. where...

Canada MGA Totten Insurance Buys Lloyd’s Coverholder Anderson McTague

Oct 3 2018 // Totten Insurance Group Inc., a Toronto-based managing general agency, announced it has acquired Anderson McTague & Associates Ltd.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick,...

Fidelis Takes Equity Stake, Provides Capacity, for Energy Market MGA, Kersey Specialty

Sep 21 2018 // Fidelis Insurance announced it has taken an equity stake in a new managing general agent, Kersey Specialty Ltd., and will be providing underwriting capacity. London-based Kersey will focus on the upstream energy...

Worldwide Facilities to Acquire Texas Insurance Wholesaler McClelland and Hine

Sep 18 2018 // Los Angeles-based Worldwide Facilities LLC announced plans to acquire managing general agent and excess and surplus lines broker, McClelland and Hine Inc. and McClelland & Hine Trucking Underwriters LLC (collectively,...

Thomas Miller to Acquire Germany’s Zeller Associates’ MGA, Insurance Operations

Sep 17 2018 // London-based insurance provider Thomas Miller reports it has agreed to purchase the managing general agency and insurance services operations of Zeller Associates, a shipping, trade and transport insurance specialist based...

Nexus Completes Acquisition of Castel’s Aerospace MGA Altitude Risk Partners

Sep 10 2018 // Independent specialty managing general agent Nexus Group has completed the acquisition of Altitude Risk Partners from the club-style MGA formation platform Castel Underwriting Agencies Limited in an asset purchase.Altitude...