All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2015 // Prepared Holdings, LLC, the holding company for Prepared Insurance Co., has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Meridian Insurance Holdings, Inc., a private investment group, under which Prepared will be...
Sep 11 2015 // Ten years after back-to-back storms Katrina and Rita galvanized plans for a Lake Charles, La., museum focused on hurricanes, supporters have secured about $42 million in pledges to build it.The Advocate reports supporters...
Sep 10 2015 // Markel Corporation and CATCo Investment Management Ltd. announced they have entered into an agreement whereby Markel will acquire substantially all of the assets of CATCo, a Bermuda-based specialist in insurance linked...
Sep 10 2015 // In its most recent Reinsurance Market Report Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings plc, notes: “Faced with significant over-capacity and widespread pricing pressure, the growth in global...
Sep 10 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Bandy Van Cleave & Williamson of Nashville, Tenn. The agency’s staff will continue to operate from their Nashville location under the local leadership of Bob Van Cleave and Chuck...
Sep 9 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Brown Agency Inc. in Kenai, Alaska. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brown is a multi-line agency providing commercial and personal insurance services, as well as...
Sep 9 2015 // Amlin Plc’s $5.3 billion takeover by a Japanese competitor has put the remaining four publicly traded Lloyd’s of London insurers in the spotlight for a possible takeover.Beazley Plc, Hiscox Ltd., Lancashire...
Sep 8 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has spoken out against a proposal by state lawmakers to eliminate funding for driver education through public high schools as a way to help close a deficit in the state...
Sep 8 2015 // The nation’s doctors say the proposed mergers among four of the nation’s largest health insurance companies would violate federal antitrust guidelines and seriously erode health insurance competition.According...
Sep 8 2015 // When BASF SE acquired Engelhard Corp. nine years ago for $5 billion, executives unknowingly inherited a ticking legal time bomb.It all began decades ago over the seemingly mundane industrial product talc, used in...
Sep 8 2015 // Partner Re announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Emmanuel Clarke as President of PartnerRe Ltd. effective immediately. He will be responsible for leading and managing all of the Company’s...
Sep 8 2015 // MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc. agreed to buy Lloyd’s of London insurer Amlin plc for about 3.47 billion pounds ($5.3 billion), joining an overseas deal spree by Japanese peers. Amlin shares surged.The...
Sep 7 2015 // Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. is in talks to buy Lloyd’s of London insurer Amlin Plc in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.The...
Sep 7 2015 // Commercial insurance rates continued their global decline in the second quarter of 2015, a trend driven by an abundance of global capacity and a lack of large insured loss activity, Marsh said in its latest Global...
Sep 4 2015 // DUAL, the underwriting arm of the Hyperion Insurance Group, announced that its Frankfurt and London-based M&A Liability team is open for business.Niki Demirbilek joins as global head of M&A Insurance, supported by...
Sep 3 2015 // Engle Martin & Associates has completed its acquisition of a majority share of Eberl’s Claim Service Inc. of Lakewood, Colo. and its related companies. Eberl provides catastrophe loss adjusting and claims-related...
Sep 3 2015 // MedPro Group (MedPro), a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, has its completed its acquisition of healthcare liability insurer PLICO Inc. (PLICO) from the Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA).The transaction process —...
Sep 3 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Arrow Insurance Service Inc. in Simi Valley, Calif. and it has acquired the assets of EmSpring Corp. in Washington.Terms of the deals were not disclosed. Arrow provides...
Sep 3 2015 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Sisk & Co. of Denver, Colo. The agency’s 27 employees will continue to operate from the Denver headquarters under the local leadership of Principal Thomas J. Sisk. Sisk & Co....
Sep 3 2015 // Blackstone Group LP acquired a “significant equity stake” in mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc.Blackstone, the New York-based private-equity firm, will provide a loan to PMI for working capital and gains the right...