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RSG Forms LatAm-Focused MGU, Capital Bay Underwriting; Ex-AIG Execs Lead Unit

Jul 11 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced the formation of its first Latin American-focused managing general underwriter (MGU), hiring two former executives from American International Group to lead the unit.Pascal Alvarez has...

LaRock joins RT Specialty in Nashville

Jul 7 2017 // R-T Specialty, LLC (RT) has announced that Jackie LaRock has joined the company as an executive vice president and part of the RT ProExec practice group. LaRock has experience and expertise in professional and executive...

RPG Promotes D’Onofrio to CEO of WKFC Underwriting and CorRisk

Jun 26 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced that Dawn D’Onofrio has been promoted to chief executive officer and president of WKFC Underwriting Managers and CorRisk Solutions. D’Onofrio previously served as chief...

Goldberg Joins Ryan Specialty Group’s Sapphire Blue in Chicago

Jun 9 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced that Debra Goldberg has joined RSG’s managing general underwriting company, Sapphire Blue, as chief underwriting officer. Goldberg is based at Sapphire Blue’s headquarters...

RSG Underwriting Managers Forms Marine Consultancy, Claims Firm

May 22 2017 // RSG Underwriting Managers (RSGUM) has formed Smooth Waters, LLC, an independent marine insurance consultancy and claims adjusting company and part of RSGUM’s growing marine practice.Smooth Waters, LLC, serves as a...

Business Moves

Apr 17 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has acquired The Capacity Group of Companies in Mahwah, N.J. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.The firm will now operate as The Capacity Group – an EPIC Company, and the...

Ryan Specialty Group Agrees to Acquire Assets of New York-Based LoVullo

Mar 31 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of LoVullo Associates Inc. (LoVullo), a wholesale insurance brokerage and binding authority operation based in...

Ryan Specialty Group to Acquire Trident Marine Managers

Feb 24 2017 // RSG Underwriting Managers (RSGUM) announced an agreement to acquire Trident Marine Managers Inc. and related claims adjusting affiliates (Trident), headquartered in Houston.Trident is a specialty marine managing general...

Business Moves

Feb 20 2017 // Markel Corp. has agreed to acquire surety firm SureTec for approximately $250 million, inclusive of a three-year earn out.SureTec is one of the largest privately owned surety companies in the U.S. SureTec’s largest...

People

Feb 6 2017 // International insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., based in Itasca, Ill., has promoted James W. Durkin Jr. and William F. Ziebell in its employee benefit division.Durkin,...

RSGUM Acquires Interstate Insurance Management in Pennsylvania

Jan 30 2017 // RSG Underwriting Managers (RSGUM) has agreed to acquire the total assets and operations of Interstate Insurance Management Inc. (Interstate).Interstate was represented in the transaction by Marsh, Berry & Company Inc....

R-T Specialty Promotes Hunziker, Nielsen

Jan 12 2017 // Chicago-based wholesale insurance brokerage R-T Specialty LLC (RT) has promoted Stephen Hunziker to president of RT Specialty Minneapolis/St. Paul and Todd Nielsen to president of RT Specialty BostonHunziker previously was...

Ryan Specialty Group Names Rosson Senior Vice President

Jan 9 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC has named Charlie Rosson senior vice president. Rosson is based in San Francisco, Calif. He will work to develop RSG penetration with brokers on a national basis. He has 23 years of experience in...

Ryan Specialty Group Buys Navigators’ Agency Operations in Sweden, Denmark

Jan 4 2017 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC has acquired The Navigators Group Inc.’s insurance agency operations in Sweden and Denmark.The transaction represents a 100 percent acquisition of Navigators’ Sweden and Denmark...

Patrick Ryan on Today’s E&S Business and Using Aon Experience to Build RSG

Oct 13 2016 // After a notable 50-year insurance career that has included starting and leading two highly successful insurance brokers, 79-year-old Patrick Ryan didn’t mince words when asked if he will ever retire:“No.”...

R-T Specialty Hires CRC Exec Sparling in New York

May 23 2016 // R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group LLC, has hired J.C. Sparling as executive vice president. He is based in New York City. Sparling is a seasoned property wholesale broker who has been...

ThinkRisk Transfers Converging Risk Program to Lloyd’s, Expands Offerings

May 20 2016 // Ryan Specialty Group’s (RSG) ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency has entered into a new underwriting partnership for its Converging Risk program with Lloyd’s of London.ThinkRisk will transition its existing...

Wholesale Broker tKg Names R-T Specialty’s Havermann to Head Transportation

May 4 2016 // Phoenix-based tKg Wholesale Brokerage has hired Edward T. Havermann, III, as vice president of its transportation division. Havermann will be responsible for building a national transportation practice for the...

Ryan Specialty Launches Marine Unit; AIG’s Pecci and Stahl to Lead

Apr 25 2016 // Specialty insurance firm Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) has formed a specialty marine underwriting business and tapped two executives who were formerly with American International Group (AIG) to lead it.The newly-formed...

Business Moves

Apr 18 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher, Joseph Distel, Continuum SolutionArthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Joseph Distel & Co. Inc. in Farmington, Conn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1955, Joseph...