All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 10 2011 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced it has acquired Meyers-Reynolds & Associates Inc., a retail insurance broker headquartered in Oklahoma City, Okla. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Formed in 1985,...
May 10 2011 // Destin, Fla.-based Acentria reported it has acquired The Stant Agency. The office will remain in Crestview, Fla. Wes Stant, commercial lines agent, and Martha Stant, personal lines service representative, are joining the...
May 9 2011 // Apex Insurance Agency Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Global Intermediaries of Eugene LLC, d/b/a Global Intermediaries in Eugene, Ore. With annualized revenues...
May 9 2011 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Lawson-Hawks Insurance Agency Inc. (LHI), a Mountain View, Calif.-based insurance brokerage firm, and Mark Tauber Insurance Brokerage Inc., a Brooklyn, New York-based...
May 9 2011 // Insuring the Children (ITC), a program of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF), has awarded a special grant to the Children’s Bureau, meeting funding needs for Oak View Summer Day Camp, held at the Oak...
May 3 2011 // When it comes to reaching potential customers, Mercury Insurance is confident the Dodgers will help them score more business. That’s why the Los Angeles-based company, which specializes in personal auto and...
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May 2 2011 // Frost Insurance Agency Inc., the insurance subsidiary of Frost, has acquired Clark Benefit Group, an independent San Antonio-based insurance agency that specializes in providing employee benefits to small and mid-size...
May 2 2011 // Never have more partners than you can fit in an elevator. That seems like a joke, but it’s serious advice when starting a business. Having too many partners creates conflicts. Even the most bonded of partnerships...
May 2 2011 // An anonymous donor has purchased a $50,000 insurance policy to help an Oklahoma woman keep her pet kangaroo as a therapy pet.The Broken Arrow City Council is considering an exotic animal ordinance exemption that would...
Apr 28 2011 // Markel has partnered with Burns & Wilcox to offer a Real Estate Errors & Omissions program to a range of residential and commercial real estate industry accounts. This Markel Programs/Burns & Wilcox product...
Apr 27 2011 // Strate Insurance Group Inc. of Morristown has become Keystone Insurers Group’s sixth franchise partner in Tennessee. Strate Insurance Group President Tom Strate and Keystone Tennessee Vice President Doug Dukes...
Apr 26 2011 // French reinsurer SCOR is set to pay $913 million for most of Dutch insurer Aegon’s Transamerica Reinsurance operations. When concluded, the combined companies would become the second largest life reinsurer in the...
Apr 25 2011 // An anonymous donor has purchased a $50,000 insurance policy to help an Oklahoma woman keep her pet kangaroo as a therapy pet.The Broken Arrow City Council is considering an exotic animal ordinance exemption that would...
Apr 20 2011 // Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer plc has issued a statement endorsing the terms of a recommended cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Chaucer by 440 Tessera Limited (BidCo), a...
Apr 19 2011 // Germany’s Hannover Re, the third largest global reinsurer, has reached agreement with Scottish Re (US) on the acquisition of a reinsurance portfolio as part of a transaction. The other part involves the transfer of a...
Apr 18 2011 // Fremont Michigan InsuraCorp Inc., a Michigan-exclusive property and casualty insurer, has agreed to be acquired by Auto Club Insurance Association (ACIA), a Michigan-domiciled reciprocal inter-insurance exchange.Under the...
Apr 18 2011 // Electrical Contractors’ Insurance Services (ECIS) has formed an affinity partnership with the Electrical Contractors Association of Scotland, known as SELECT. The partnership will allow ECIS to offer a range of...
Apr 14 2011 // Global reinsurance broker Aon Benfield and Shanghai Typhoon Institute (STI) of China Meteorological Administration – the only state-funded typhoon research institute in China – have entered into an exclusive strategic...
Apr 11 2011 // Oklahoma City-based privately held independent insurance agency, INSURICA, announced it has acquired Guaranty Insurance Services, headquartered in Plano, Texas.INSURICA President and CEO Mike Ross said the acquisition...