All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 13 2013 // Aon plc is making the best of its new London domicile. With its roots in Chicago, the home of one of the National Football League’s most historic teams, Aon has embarked on bringing NFL football to the UKAon...
Aug 9 2013 // Richfield, Ohio-based transportation insurance, National Interstate Insurance Co., announced it has entered into a preferred partnership with the International Motorcoach Group (IMG) to provide its members with enhanced...
Aug 9 2013 // Bermuda-based American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. announced that Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has increased its offer to purchase American Safety to $30.25 per share from the previously announced $29.25 per...
Aug 9 2013 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has commented that the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 2010,...
Aug 9 2013 // A.M. Best Co. has commented that the ratings of Bermuda-based Lancashire Holdings Limited, Lancashire Insurance Company Limited and Lancashire Insurance Company (UK) Limited – collectively known as Lancashire –...
Aug 8 2013 // International Risk Management Institute Inc. has entered into an agreement with the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of California to acquire the Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist certification...
Aug 7 2013 // EPIC, a San Mateo, Calif.-based retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, acquired SafeHarbor Risk Management. Founded in 2009, privately-held SafeHarbor is a property/casualty...
Aug 6 2013 // Cost is one of the many issues preventing gate and bell systems from being installed at Georgia’s roughly 5,000 public rail crossings, state and local officials say.Georgia recorded 47 highway-rail crossing deaths or...
Aug 5 2013 // Following a downgrade of its financial strength ratings (FSR) to “B++” from “A-” by A.M. Best Co. on Friday, Meadowbrook Insurance Group announced that it will seek to make arrangements with an...
Aug 5 2013 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub), said it has agreed to be acquired by funds advised by Hellman & Friedman LLC. The transaction values Hub at approximately $4.4 billion.Under the terms of the...
Aug 5 2013 // Growing personal lines agency Confie Seguros has acquired Economy Insurance Mart of Spring Hill, Fla., which sells auto, home and small commercial insurance. Economy Insurance Agency was founded in 1993 and is a privately...
Aug 5 2013 // During the past 20 to 30 years typical business dealings between wholesale insurance brokers and retail agents have evolved from being purely transactional experiences to those that are highly dependent upon relationships...
Aug 1 2013 // Bermuda-based American Safety Insurance Holdings, Ltd. announced that Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has provided the company “with a waiver of certain provisions under the merger agreement between the...
Jul 30 2013 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. reported a net loss of $175.6 million, or $3.37 per share for the second quarter of 2013. The earnings announcement said the figure “includes net after-tax realized and unrealized losses...
Jul 22 2013 // Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the second quarter of 2013 mirrored the first, continuing at a leisurely pace. Thirty-six transactions were announced from April to June, compared to 66 during the same time...
Jul 19 2013 // The Andrew Agency, an independent insurance agency based in Richmond, Va., announced its acquisition of Samuel D. Baughman Insurance Services, an agency also based in Richmond. The Andrew Agency serves clients in Virginia,...
Jul 17 2013 // USI Insurance Services said it completed its acquisition of Cohen-Seltzer Inc., in Fort Washington, Penn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. A third generation family-owned insurance agency formed in 1926,...
Jul 16 2013 // Newly-formed Ink Underwriting in Kennesaw, Georgia, said it has acquired Pioneer Programs Insurance Solutions, a Pasadena, California-based niche insurance program administrator for the construction and long term care...
Jul 12 2013 // United Valley Insurance Services and Leavitt Group Enterprises have agreed to a merger, giving the two firms a collective 150 insurance agencies and counting under one owner.The deal was announced late Friday. Under the...
Jul 12 2013 // Swiss Re Ltd., the world’s second- biggest reinsurer, said it’s in preliminary talks about combining its Admin Re business with Phoenix Group Holdings.“There is no certainty that these discussions will...