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Risk Strategies Establishes Florida Footprint With Acquisition of Atlass Insurance

Jun 1 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Florida-Based Atlass Insurance Group, significantly adding to the resources of its Private Client...

VALE Acquires Onyx Transportation Services in California

May 31 2016 // VALE Insurance Partners has acquired 100 percent of the assets of San Francisco, Calif.-based Onyx Transportation Services LLC, the program administrator for Onyx Insurance Company Inc., a risk retention group specializing...

AXA Sells SunLife, Names Top Team Including Harlin as CFO, Olivier to Lead P/C

May 27 2016 // AXA SA sold its SunLife unit in the U.K. to Phoenix Group Holdings and announced the top-management team that will work with incoming Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl when he takes the helm in September.Gerald Harlin...

Credit Suisse Sells Operational Risk Bonds, Insuring Rogue Trading, Cyber Crime

May 27 2016 // Credit Suisse Group AG sold 220 million Swiss francs ($222 million) of bonds designed to offload potential losses on events like rogue trading, with some investors sidestepping the issue because of the incalculable...

Indiana Department of Insurance Approves Anthem’s Cigna Acquisition

May 26 2016 // The health insurer Anthem Inc. announced it has received approval from Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner Stephen W. Robertson for the acquisition of Cigna HealthCare of Indiana Inc., a subsidiary of Cigna...

Global Risk Partners Completes Acquisition of LONMAR

May 26 2016 // Global Risk Partners Ltd., the insurance broking and managing general agency (MGA) investment vehicle, has completed its backing of the management buyout of LONMAR Global Risks, the London-based specialist Lloyd’s...

Dutch Insurer NN Group Plans to Buy Back Shares Worth $559 Million

May 26 2016 // NN Group NV, the second-biggest Dutch insurer, said it will buy back as much as 500 million euros ($559 million) of shares over the 12 months from June as it returns excess capital to investors.First-quarter operating...

PartnerRe Reshapes $16B Investment Portfolio Under Elkann/EXOR’s Leadership

May 26 2016 // PartnerRe exited junk bonds and shifted funds into property as the reinsurer reshaped a $16 billion investment portfolio after being acquired by John Elkann’s EXOR SpA.EXOR’s approach is to focus on holdings...

Risk Strategies Acquires John Buttine Inc. in New York City

May 24 2016 // Risk Strategies Company announced Tuesday that it has acquired John Buttine Inc., an insurance brokerage in New York City with a specialty focus on media-related businesses and services. Terms of the transaction were not...

CEO’s Departure at Mortgage Insurer Radian May be Rival’s Opportunity to Acquire: Analyst

May 23 2016 // Essent Group Ltd. may have an opportunity to buy Radian Group Inc., the rival mortgage insurer whose chief executive officer is stepping down, an analyst at BTIG LLC said.“Radian has no clear successor,” for...

Aegon, Transamerica Owner, Sells $4.4B UK Annuity Portfolio to Legal & General

May 23 2016 // Aegon NV, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transamerica Corp., divested the final 3 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) of annuities from its U.K. portfolio to Legal & General Group Plc.The transaction, which covers 27,000...

Industry Partners with University of Alabama on Tornado Preparedness Guide

May 23 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has partnered with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Alabama Department of...

PartnerOne Environmental Adds Huitt, Maxwell to New Jacksonville, Florida Office

May 22 2016 // PartnerOne Environmental has opened a new regional office in Jacksonville, Fla., and added Michelle Huitt as assistant vice president and Marie Maxwell as underwriter. The new team members will help manage the PartnerOne...

Hanover Stone Partners, UnitedLex to Offer Cyber Risk Management Services

May 20 2016 // Hanover Stone Partners, a risk management services firm, and UnitedLex, a business advisory company, have collaborated on cyber-security, legal services and other risk management options for businesses and other commercial...

Digital Benefit Advisors Acquires Minnesota’s Corporate Health Systems

May 20 2016 // Digital Benefit Advisors (DBA) a national employee benefits firm, has acquired Corporate Health Systems of Eden Prairie, Minn., expanding its footprint in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Corporate Health Systems’...

Update: Skuld to Acquire SMA/Gerling Norway and Its Hull & Machinery Book

May 20 2016 // Skuld, the Oslo, Norway-based marine insurance provider, announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase SMA/Gerling Norway.The transaction includes the acquisition of the renewal rights of the hull & machinery...

Lockton Acquires Outland Consultants in Connecticut

May 19 2016 // Insurance broker Lockton announced Thursday that it has acquired Outland Consultants, a global employee benefits consultancy in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Since 1998, Outland...

Federal Funding for Ohio Flood Control Plan in Jeopardy

May 19 2016 // Officials in northwest Ohio may be forced to abandon a flood control project or pay for it with local money as federal funding for the plan is in jeopardy.A review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in recent months found...

KRA Insurance Agency, New Agency Partners Merge in New Jersey

May 18 2016 // KRA Insurance Agency, based in Springfield, New Jersey, and New Agency Partners in Parsippany, New Jersey, have announced that the two firms have merged, resulting in a newly-formed agency, KRA Agency Partners. Terms of...

House, Senate Republicans Divided Over Zika Funding

May 18 2016 // House and Senate Republicans can’t get on the same page when it comes to fighting the Zika virus — and Democrats are pouncing.The Senate, on a 68-29 vote, advanced $1.1 billion of the administration’s...