All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 1 2014 // AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Cabrillo Pacific Insurance Services, a non-standard auto insurance managing general agent, and Tidewater Pacific Adjusters, the administrator that manages claims and appraisal functions for...
Jun 30 2014 // AmTrust Financial Services Inc. announced that it has agreed to purchase Comp Options Insurance Co. Inc., a Jacksonville, Florida-based workers’ compensation insurer and a subsidiary of Blue Cross & Blue Shield...
Jun 27 2014 // Bermuda-based Ironshore Inc. announced that its Australian subsidiary’s transaction to acquire all of the shares of Australia’s Assetinsure Holdings Pty Limited, the parent company of Assetinsure Pty Limited,...
Jun 26 2014 // Year-to-date through June 20, the insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market witnessed 160 deal announcements, compared to 134 deals over the same period of 2013 — an increase of roughly 20 percent, according to...
Jun 26 2014 // Qatar Insurance Co., the largest insurance company in the Middle East, said it has completed acquisition of Antares Holdings Limited, a specialist insurance and reinsurance group operating in the Lloyd’s market.The...
Jun 26 2014 // PZU SA, Poland’s biggest insurer, is selling 500 million euros ($681 million) of five-year bonds to help finance an acquisition.The state-controlled insurer is tapping the market after the European Central Bank cut...
Jun 24 2014 // The parent company of one of Florida’s largest home insurers has entered into a non-binding deal to purchase another state-based insurer in a move that could affect 21,500 state policyholders.HCI Group Inc. announced...
Jun 24 2014 // MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest non-life insurer, will seek acquisitions in Southeast Asia to expand its overseas business, said President and Chief Executive Officer Yasuyoshi...
Jun 23 2014 // Validus Holdings said it has agreed to acquire specialty insurer Western World Insurance Group for $690 million in a deal that leaves the management team and brand of the specialty insurer intact.Under the deal terms,...
Jun 23 2014 // Business Risk Partners, a Windsor, Conn.-based managing general underwriter, has appointed Erinn Coletti as professional liability underwriter. Previously, Coletti served as a specialty underwriter at The Hanover Insurance...
Jun 23 2014 // Broad Insurance Group (BIG) said it has acquired Art Hartselle Agency Inc., a Seminole, Fla. based commercial and personal lines property/casualty insurance agency. The company said that Robert Southard, a Florida native...
Jun 23 2014 // Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Stockton, Calif.-based Daugherty Insurance Services, a retail broker. Details of the deal were not disclosed. Scott Daugherty will remain in his leadership...
Jun 20 2014 // Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) announced that it has received the required regulatory approvals from the Commonwealth Acting Assistant Treasurer for its acquisition of the Wesfarmers insurance underwriting...
Jun 19 2014 // Bangor, Maine-based Cross Insurance announced it has purchased the naming rights of the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine.Cross Insurance, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in New England,...
Jun 19 2014 // Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd., the reinsurer that counts Sanford “Sandy” Weill as its chairman, hired Bob Deutsch as chief strategy officer to lead an expansion that could include takeovers.Deutsch, a managing...
Jun 18 2014 // Marsh announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Panamanian insurance broker and advisor Semusa, Marsh’s long-standing local correspondent broker.Terms of the transaction were...
Jun 18 2014 // Allianz SE, Europe’s largest insurer, and Munich Re’s primary insurance unit, Ergo Versicherungsgruppe AG, are in talks to buy Agrotiki Insurance from Greece’s Piraeus Bank SA, said three people familiar...
Jun 17 2014 // Chicago, IL – 6/17/14 – Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) announces the formation of RSGUM Healthcare, a new healthcare and life science underwriting facility, in partnership with some of the strongest and most...
Jun 16 2014 // The Frederick H. DiMeo Insurance Agency Inc. has purchased the personal lines division of Union City, Calif.-based Hughes AllMart Insurance Agency.The deal involves the acquisition of three insurance company books of...
Jun 16 2014 // Ryan Specialty Group, LLC (RSG) has formed RSGUM Healthcare, a new healthcare and life science underwriting facility, in partnership with the healthcare and life science underwriters at Lloyd’s of London....