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Marsh Q3 Revenue Up 9%

Nov 9 2010 // Insurance broker Marsh’s revenue in the third quarter of 2010 rose 9 percent to $1.1 billion.Marsh’s revenue growth in the United States / Canada was 3 percent in the quarter; international operations rose 2...

Business Moves

Nov 1 2010 // Ironshore, Distinguished ProgramsBermuda-based specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. and New York-based program administrator Distinguished Programs Group LLC have formed a joint venture acquisition vehicle targeting the...

Insurance Leader Clements– Founder of Arch, Ironshore, Integro– Dies at 77

Sep 7 2010 // Robert Clements, a global insurance industry leader who helped start several insurers and a brokerage died on Sept. 4, 2010 of cancer at age 77.Clements founded Arch Capital Group and Ironshore Inc. and was instrumental in...

M&A Wrap Up: Year-over-Year, M&A Activity Sustains a Moderate Pace

Aug 24 2010 // Insurance brokerage deals in the second quarter of 2010 barely bested the number of deals during the second quarter of 2009 bringing year-over-year activity slightly ahead of last. Forty-six transactions were announced...

Marsh UK Consolidates Manchester Operations with Mercer

Aug 16 2010 // Marsh & McLennan’s UK Marsh and Mercer divisions announced the consolidation of their Manchester operations into one location.The companies also announced that they “have signed a 10-year lease to occupy...

M&A Wrap Up: Year-over-Year, M&A Activity Sustains a Moderate Pace

Aug 16 2010 // Insurance brokerage deals in the second quarter of 2010 barely bested the number of deals during the second quarter of 2009 bringing year-over-year activity slightly ahead of last. Forty-six transactions were announced...

Year-over-Year, M&A Activity Sustains a Moderate Pace

Aug 16 2010 // Insurance brokerage deals in the second quarter of 2010 barely bested the number of deals during the second quarter of 2009 bringing year-over-year activity slightly ahead of last. Forty-six transactions were announced...

MMC Completes Sale of Kroll to Altegrity

Aug 4 2010 // Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) reports that it has completed the sale of Kroll Inc. to Altegrity, Inc, an international screening and security solutions company owned by global private equity firm Providence...

Marsh Revenue Up 9% in Q2

Aug 3 2010 // Global insurance broker Marsh’s revenue in the second quarter of 2010 rose 9 percent to $1.2 billion from the same period in 2009.Revenue growth in international operations was 6 percent, reflecting 3 percent growth...

Lord Lang to Succeed Hardis as MMC Board Chairman in May 2011

Jul 28 2010 // The Board of Directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) announced that Ian Lang, Lord Lang of Monkton, will succeed Stephen R. Hardis as Independent Chairman of the MMC Board of Directors when Hardis retires...

People

Jul 19 2010 // Paulette Lundy has been promoted to vice president of Human Resources for Maryland’s Injured Worker Insurance Fund (IWIF), a workers’ compensation insurer. She previously served as director of human resources...

Massachusetts Fair Plan Gets $96M Catastrophe Bond

Jul 12 2010 // The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA) has received a $96 million catastrophe bond issuance that transfers hurricane risk in Massachusetts to the capital markets, a number of reinsurers...

Mercer Insurance Group Rating Upgraded to Stable From Negative

Jun 29 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of Mercer Insurance Group of Pennington, N.J. The...

Towers Watson Boosts Florida Operations with Betz, Stofko

Jun 24 2010 // Strengthening its presence in the Florida property/ casualty market, global professional services company Towers Watson has appointed two industry veterans with experience in the state. Robert Betz has been named practice...

Ratings Recap: Mercer Group, CAMICO, First Jersey

Jun 23 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of the New Jersey-based Mercer...

Business Moves

Jun 21 2010 // Marsh & McLennan, Kroll, AltegrityMarsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. agreed to sell investigations unit Kroll to a firm led by former Marsh CEO Michael Cherkasky for less than the insurance broker paid for Kroll six...

S&P Revises Marsh Mac Outlook to Negative; Ratings Affirmed

Jun 15 2010 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Marsh & McLennan Cos. (MMC) to negative from stable. S&P has also affirmed its ‘BBB-‘ long-term and ‘A-3’ short-term...

Guy Carp Appoints Flynn Global COO

Jun 14 2010 // Marsh Mac’s risk and reinsurance specialist, Guy Carpenter & Company, announced that it has named Liz Flynn as Global Chief Operating Officer. She will be based in New York and will report to Peter Zaffino, Guy...

Marsh & McLennan Sells Kroll to Providence for $1.13B

Jun 7 2010 // Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc agreed to sell investigations unit Kroll to a firm led by former Marsh CEO Michael Cherkasky for less than the insurance broker paid for Kroll six years ago.MMC said on Monday it plans to sell...

Guy Carpenter Terrorism Report: Insurance Supply Outpaces Demand

Jun 3 2010 // Guy Carpenter, Marsh’s reinsurance brokerage and risk assessment division, has published “Terrorism: Reinsurers Standing By.” It concludes that “insurers and reinsurers have become increasingly...