All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 12 2013 // New China Life Insurance Co. fell by the most in almost a year in Hong Kong after Zurich Insurance Co. sold 97.5 million shares in the third-biggest Chinese life insurer by premium income last year.The stock dropped 6.4...
Jul 9 2013 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced this week that it now has access to a dedicated funding source, thanks to Gov. Tom Corbett’s recently signed 2013-14 budget and newly enacted legislation, Act 46.This...
Jul 8 2013 // Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC, a global risk and reinsurance intermediary division of N.Y.-headquartered Marsh & McLennan Companies, announced last week its acquisition of Smith Group, a disability reinsurance risk...
Jul 1 2013 // Brown & Brown Inc. said it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of Beecher Carlson Holdings Inc.In May, Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. said it would buy the retail brokerage, program management and...
Jul 1 2013 // Hispanic market-focused insurance agency network Confie Seguros announced the acquisition of CW Baker Insurance Agency and Lewiston Insurance Agency, two providers of standard and preferred personal insurance located in...
Jul 1 2013 // New York-based reinsurance broker Holborn Corp. has acquired an ownership stake in Stonybrook Capital LLC, an investment banking advisor for the insurance and reinsurance industries. Holborn Chief Executive Officer Frank...
Jul 1 2013 // CoreLogic Inc. agreed to buy three real estate data companies from TPG Capital’s Decision Insight Information Group for $661 million to expand its coverage of the property and casualty insurance industries.CoreLogic...
Jul 1 2013 // A federal judge has blocked Michigan’s ban on domestic partner benefits for employees who work for public schools or local governments, saying state lawmakers simply wanted to punish gays and lesbians.U.S. District...
Jun 28 2013 // Dallas, Texas-based MHBT Inc. has acquired Wells Fargo’s insurance brokerage operations in Lubbock, Texas. The deal includes all operating assets and operations of the Lubbock office of Wells Fargo Insurance,...
Jun 27 2013 // Risk Strategies Co., a Boston-Based insurance and benefits brokerage and risk management firm, announced that private equity firm Kohlberg & Co. has acquired the majority of Risk Strategies’ stake.The brokerage...
Jun 25 2013 // Alberta Premier Alison Redford on Monday promised C$1 billion (US$956 million) in initial funding to help pay for damage caused by major flooding this past weekend, and said the oil-rich province would no longer be able to...
Jun 24 2013 // Nicholas Solimo has joined Morristown, N.J.-based Surety Partners of America as chief operating officer. He previously served as senior director of global operations for Roche Inc. based in Branchburg, N.J.Nicholas...
Jun 21 2013 // Aon Global Risk Consulting, the risk consulting business of Aon plc acquired the assets of Dempsey Partners, a provider of claims preparation, business interruption valuations and related forensic accounting services to...
Jun 20 2013 // Ebix Inc., a supplier of software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, announced that it and an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. have agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement.The...
Jun 19 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers recently acquired Consuasor Insurance Advisors in New York. Founded in 2006, Consuasor is a multi-lines middle market broker with offices in New York City and Long...
Jun 19 2013 // Mounting scandals at the Internal Revenue Service are jeopardizing critical funding for the agency as it gears up to play a big role in President Barack Obama’s health care law.Obama sought a significant budget...
Jun 18 2013 // The Travelers Companies’ decision to acquire Dominion of Canada General Insurance, a unit of E-L Financial Corp., for $1.1 billion makes strategic sense, according to analysts.The acquisition now allows Travelers to...
Jun 17 2013 // Cooper Gay Swett and Crawford (CGSC) announced that Oliver Homer has joined the company, effective as of today, June 17, as Global Head of M&A, a newly created position within the group. He is based in London and will...
Jun 13 2013 // Gov. John Kasich says members of the state’s congressional delegation haven’t pushed hard enough for federal money to help with flood control along the Blanchard River in northwest Ohio. The Courier in Findlay...
Jun 12 2013 // Sachs Group Inc.’s missteps advising speech-recognition pioneer Dragon Systems Inc. in a merger weren’t egregious enough under the law to warrant damages, a federal judge ruled.U.S. District Judge Patti B....