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Sep 18 2017 // Detroit, Mich.-based H.W. Kaufman Financial Group named Daniel J. Kaufman senior vice president of corporate growth. Kaufman will continue to serve as managing director and lead the Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and...

Specialty MGAs Continue to be Popular Acquisition Targets

Sep 14 2017 // With growth prospects becoming rarer in the continuing competitive insurance market, carriers are among three sets of buyers fueling a hot M&A environment for specialized managing general agencies, representatives of...

SIS Wholesale Insurance Services Launches Online Inland Marine Program

Sep 12 2017 // Safebuilt Insurance Services, Inc. dba SIS Wholesale Insurance Services, a national commercial lines insurance program administrator, has launched a new online inland marine contractors’ equipment program. The...

Specialty Program Group Acquires Assets of Monarch E&S Insurance Services in California

Sep 7 2017 // Specialty Program Group LLC has acquired the assets of Burbank, Calif.-based wholesaler Monarch E&S Insurance Services.Monarch E&S is a full-service MGA and wholesale brokerage established in 1986. The firm...

Brokers Bucking Disruption: How Wholesalers Hang On Through Change

Sep 4 2017 // As long as there is an insurance industry, wholesaler brokers believe they will have a role to play.“We will continue to be an important sector – a small sector – but still a very important sector of how...

Ascot Launches Specialty MGA, Vertical Underwriting Managers

Aug 31 2017 // Ascot Group Ltd. (AGL) announced the creation of Vertical Underwriting Managers, its first specialty managing general agency (MGA) cell under Ethos Specialty Insurance Services, AGL’s standalone MGAVertical will...

Breckenridge Insurance Services Welcomes David Stamatis to Team

Aug 29 2017 // Atlanta, GA, August 29, 2017 — Breckenridge Insurance Services welcomes commercial property and casualty broker David Stamatis, ASLI as vice president. Stamatis will further the geographic office expansion of the team to...

NexAssure to Launch MGA for Europe, Middle East Business

Aug 23 2017 // NexAssure Group is set to open a specialist managing general agent, NexAssure Agency (UK) Ltd. in London and has appointed a senior underwriter Mark Angel as head of Specialty to lead the company’s expansion into...

Ascot Launches P/C Reinsurance MGA: Ethos Specialty Insurance Services

Aug 22 2017 // Ascot Group Ltd. (AGL) has launched Ethos Specialty Insurance Services, LLC, a standalone managing general agent (MGA), operating under AGL.Michael Sillat has been appointed as chief executive officer of Ethos, effective...

DOXA Insurance Holdings Names Wall as Chief Financial Officer

Aug 21 2017 // DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC, a Midwest-based private equity investment firm acquiring medium to small managing general agencies (MGAs), has appointed Kevin Wall as the company’s new chief financial officer (CFO). A...

Sign of the Times – Brokers vs. Carriers on a Classic Soft Market

Jul 24 2017 // Chief executive officers of property/casualty insurance brokers and P/C insurance carriers called each other out in June for engaging in activities they said were “classic signs of a soft market.”During a...

JenCap Holdings Acquiring Michigan’s Special Risks Facilities

Jul 19 2017 // JenCap Holdings LLC has agreed to acquire privately held Special Risks Facilities Inc., an MGA/contract binding authority and wholesale insurance brokerage firm based in Sterling Heights, Michigan.Special Risks was formed...

London MGA Nexus Acquires U.S.-Based Treaty MGA from ZON Re

Jul 19 2017 // Specialty insurance managing general agent Nexus Group said it has acquired the assets of Personal Accident Treaty Reinsurance MGA operated by ZON Re, a U.S. based treaty reinsurance managing underwriter and Lloyd’s...

RSG Forms LatAm-Focused MGU, Capital Bay Underwriting; Ex-AIG Execs Lead Unit

Jul 11 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced the formation of its first Latin American-focused managing general underwriter (MGU), hiring two former executives from American International Group to lead the unit.Pascal Alvarez has...

Insurtech Startup Buys MGA in California with Aim of Delivering Product for Agents

Jul 10 2017 // Insurtech startup Bridger has purchased Pleasanton, Calif.-based SCJ Insurance Services in a step toward launching what the firm contends will be “simpler, cheaper, and easier-to-manage automotive...

The Hanover’s Chaucer Acquires SLE Holdings, Sydney-Based MGA

Jul 5 2017 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. announced that Chaucer, the company’s international specialty insurance group, has acquired SLE Holdings, a market-leading Lloyd’s managing general underwriting agency based in...

MGA Pen Underwriting Launches Specialist Cover for UK Construction Market

Jun 27 2017 // Pen Underwriting* has launched a new product to address the UK construction industry’s wide-ranging, complex risk exposures.Backed by “A”-rated capacity from specialist insurer CNA Hardy, the single...

Insurtech Startup Buys MGA in California with Product for Agents in Mind

Jun 22 2017 // Insurtech startup Bridger has purchased Pleasanton, Calif.-based SCJ Insurance Services in a step toward launching what the firm contends will be “simpler, cheaper, and easier-to-manage automotive...

In ‘Classic’ Soft Market Battle, Brokers and Carriers Attack Each Other

Jun 14 2017 // Chief executive officers of property/casualty insurance carriers and insurance brokers called each other out last week for engaging in activities they said are “classic signs of a soft market.”During a session...

MarketScout Sells Workers’ Compensation Business to Specialty Program Group

Jun 7 2017 // Dallas-based insurance exchange MarketScout, which provides agents with access to specialty markets, has sold its workers’ compensation managing general agency business to Specialty Program Group.MarketScout said it...