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Liberty Mutual Sells Off Life Insurance Unit, Realigns U.S., Global P/C Business

Jan 23 2018 // Liberty Mutual is getting out of the life insurance business, and the insurer will reorganize in order to better focus on its remaining P/C businesses.The Boston-based global insurer said it will sell its life insurance...

Airbus Looks to Insurers to Fill Export Trade Funding Gap After Europe’s Freeze

Jan 23 2018 // Airbus said on Monday it is working with private insurance firms and banks to help fill a two-year gap in trade funding left by a European freeze on government export credits, but expects limited public financing to resume...

Leavitt Central Coast Insurance Services Acquires Pulford in California

Jan 22 2018 // Pulford Insurance Agency has been acquired by Leavitt Central Coast Insurance Services. The merger will not affect customer policies, and the same personnel will continue to serve clients, now at the LCCIS location in...

AIG to Buy Bermuda Reinsurer Validus for $5.6B in Cash, Reversing Retrenchment

Jan 22 2018 // Eight months after Chief Executive Officer Brian Duperreault took over and began to undo his predecessor’s retrenchment strategy, the company announced a $5.56 billion, all-cash deal to purchase Bermuda reinsurer...

RenaissanceRe to Buy Minority Stake in Run-Off Firm Catalina Holdings

Jan 19 2018 // RenaissanceRe will pick up a minority stake in Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd., a long-term manager of legacy runoff P/C insurance and reinsurance businesses.Neither side is disclosing financial terms. RenaissanceRe will...

S. Africa Mobile Phone Firm Cell C Seeks M&A to Expand into Insurance

Jan 18 2018 // Cell C Pty Ltd. is seeking acquisitions that will help transform South Africa’s third-biggest mobile-phone company into a full-service telecommunications provider offering internet and financial services as well as...

Kaplansky Insurance Acquires Massachusetts’ Anthony and Malcolm Insurance Agency

Jan 18 2018 // Kaplansky Insurance has acquired Anthony and Malcolm Insurance Agency in Bradford, Mass.Founded in 1919, Anthony and Malcolm Insurance provides a range of insurance services to both personal and commercial clientele. The...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires New Jersey’s The Daniels Group

Jan 18 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired New Providence, N.J.-based The Daniels Group Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1991, The Daniels Group is a full-service employee benefits consultant and...

Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS

Jan 18 2018 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year broke all records in 2017, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 604 deals in the United States and Canada in 2017, a 31...

JenCap Holdings to Acquire Genesee General of Georgia

Jan 18 2018 // JenCap Holdings LLC (JCH), a specialty insurance business, has agreed to acquire privately-held Genesee General, a managing general agency, program administrator and wholesale insurance broker based in Alpharetta, Ga. The...

Alera Group Acquires New Jersey’s FIRM Inc.

Jan 17 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired FIRM Inc., an insurance agency located in Mahwah, N.J. Terms of the transaction were not...

UK’s Thomas Cook Partners with Fintech Firm to Offer Pay-Per-Day Travel Cover

Jan 17 2018 // British travel company Thomas Cook has partnered with fintech firm Revolut to launch a “pay-per-day” travel insurance service which automatically provides users with medical cover by tracking their location...

Deutsche Bank Forms Bancassurance Partnership with Digital Broker Friendsurance

Jan 16 2018 // Deutsche Bank and digital insurance broker Friendsurance have formed a partnership designed to make it simpler and more transparent and convenient for clients to arrange for their insurance needs.To drive this, Deutsche...

E&S Exit: State Auto’s Rockhill Sells Environmental Insurance Renewals to CapSpecialty

Jan 16 2018 // Capitol Indemnity Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CapSpecialty Inc., said it has acquired the renewal rights to Rockhill Insurance Group’s excess and surplus environmental insurance book of business.Rockhill is a...

Insurance Center of New England Acquires Massachusetts’ Eastman & Davis

Jan 16 2018 // Insurance Center of New England (ICNE), based in Agawam, Mass., has added Eastman & Davis Insurance Agency of West Springfield, Mass., to its company.ICNE is a privately-owned and independent insurance agency with...

Randall & Quilter Sells Insurance Services & Captive Mgmt. Operations to Davies Group

Jan 16 2018 // Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q) announced the sale of its Insurance Services and Captive Management Operations to Davies Group, a London-based operations management, consultancy and digital...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Houston’s AquaSurance

Jan 12 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced it has acquired AquaSurance LLC in Houston, Texas.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2002 by Harry Peyton and Marshall Schoth, AquaSurance is a property/casualty...

Hub International Acquires P/C Book from Montreal Broker Daniel Picard

Jan 12 2018 // Hub International Ltd. (Hub), the Chicago-based insurance brokerage, announced it has acquired a property and casualty insurance book of business from Montreal broker Daniel Picard.Terms of the acquisition were not...

General Star, Norman-Spencer Partner on Online Program for Real Estate Appraisers

Jan 12 2018 // General Star Management Co. has launched an online individual real estate appraisers program. General Star will partner with Norman-Spencer Agency, Inc., the program administrator. The online appraisers program provides...

Former Beecher Carlson Exec Tofil Joins Prime Risk Partners in Atlanta

Jan 12 2018 // Prime Risk Partners has added J. Scott Tofil to the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer.Tofil succeeds Robert Schneider, who remains as a consultant to the company. Tofil began his career as a...