All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2011 // Swallows Agencies of Cookeville has become a franchise partner of Keystone Insurers Group in Tennessee. The Swallows Agencies has four locations in north central Tennessee: Cookeville, Sparta, Livingston and...
Jul 6 2011 // Acentria Insurance is expanding its business into southwest Florida by acquiring Florida Homeowners & Commercial Insurance Agency. Terms were not disclosed. The FHC Insurance Agency in Ft. Myers has been providing...
Jul 6 2011 // Chicago-based insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired Roeder & Moon Inc. (R&M), an insurance brokerage firm in Dallas, Texas. In connection with this acquisition, R&M will become part...
Jul 5 2011 // Chicago-based Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the Roy Agency Inc. (Roy), an insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Plano, Texas.The Roy team will become part of Hub International Rigg (Hub Texas). Agency...
Jul 5 2011 // Massachusetts-based The Hanover Insurance Group has completed its acquisition of Chaucer Holdings, a specialty Lloyd’s insurance group.The $474 million deal includes $13 million to be paid in loan notes to...
Jul 4 2011 // Technology providers to the insurance industry have good things to say about a new system that allows property/casualty agents, brokers and carriers to collaborate on commercial lines accounts.The new system, the...
Jul 4 2011 // “The only thing my clients and prospects are interested in is the cheapest price.”Certainly this is the most common complaint insurance agents express during soft markets and/or a down economy. And if the agent...
Jul 1 2011 // Lloyd’s Novae Group plc announced that it has informed the advisers of Omega Insurance, another Lloyd’s insurer that it “has withdrawn from merger discussions.”Novae said it has “concluded...
Jul 1 2011 // Hallmark Financial Services Inc., based in Fort Worth, has completed its previously disclosed acquisition of TBIC Holding Corporation, including its wholly owned subsidiaries Texas Builders Insurance Co. and TBIC Risk...
Jun 30 2011 // Itasca, Ill.-based international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., announced it has acquired Mortgage Insurance Agency Ltd. in Crystal Lake, Ill. Founded in 1993,...
Jun 29 2011 // There will be a strong ongoing interest in acquisitions of independent agent and brokers through 2012, according to the channel’s most prolific buyers of agencies whose views are highlighted in a new report.Reagan...
Jun 27 2011 // Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance broker Bollinger Inc. has acquired the Cranford, N.J. agency, The Property and Casualty Group (PCG). Terms were not disclosed. PCG It sells commercial and personal insurance in New Jersey,...
Jun 21 2011 // The ACE Group announced today that its ACE INA International Holdings, Ltd. subsidiary has acquired all of the outstanding shares it does not already own, or approximately 49 percent, of ACE Synergy Insurance Berhad in...
Jun 21 2011 // The Travelers Companies announced that the company has completed its acquisition of a 43 percent interest in JMalucelli Participações em Seguros e Resseguros S.A., the market leader in the surety insurance business in...
Jun 21 2011 // Michigan-based Hastings Mutual Insurance Co. committed $100,000 over four years towards an endowed scholarship fund for Olivet College insurance students. To date, $75,000 has been contributed to the fund with the...
Jun 20 2011 // Zurich Financial Services Group announced that its subsidiary, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd., has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Malaysian Assurance Alliance Berhad (MAAB), a Malaysian...
Jun 20 2011 // Digital Insurance Inc., an employee benefits agency specializing in insurance for small businesses and mid-sized companies, has acquired Employee Benefits by Design in Chicago and Strategic Benefits Consultants (SBC) in...
Jun 20 2011 // More than 60 percent of insurers say that their most recent merger accomplished the desired objective of competitive position strengthening— double the success rate reported by non-insurers involved in mergers.While...
Jun 15 2011 // New Jersey-based insurance data specialist Verisk Analytics Inc. is acquiring Health Risk Partners for $60 million in cash. Verisk said $13 million of the purchase price will be placed in escrow and should be paid in 2012....
Jun 14 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has commented that the ratings of the subsidiaries of Swiss-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG and New York-based Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, are unchanged following the...