Monthly Archives: <span>June 2020</span>

The Plexus Groupe Acquires Florida’s Community Insurance Group

The Plexus Groupe, a privately held broker, has acquired Community Insurance Group (CIG) of Brandon, Fla. This is the first entrance into the Florida market for Plexus, which has locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Oklahoma City. The …

Alliant Hires Schoenberg as Co-Leader of Its Mergers & Acquisitions Division

Alliant has hired Dan Schoenberg as co-leader of Alliant Mergers & Acquisitions. Schoenberg has experience in representations and warranties insurance, tax insurance and litigation insurance, as well as insuring other contingent risks in M&A and non-M&A-related situations. Based in New …

World Insurance Associates Acquires New York’s Millennium Medical Solutions Corp.

World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Millennium Medical Solutions Corp. of Armonk, N.Y., on June 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Millennium Medical Solutions Corp. is an employee benefits consulting boutique agency that specializes in commercial healthcare. …

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Florida’s Barrett, Liner & Buss

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Ocala, Fla.-based Barrett, Liner & Buss LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1981, Barrett, Liner & Buss offers a range of employee benefit solutions to Florida employers representing a …

Judge Sides with Trump Over Hospitals on Price Disclosure Rule

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a challenge by hospital groups to a federal rule requiring them to disclose prices they quietly negotiate with insurers, in a victory for White House efforts to make healthcare pricing more transparent to patients. …

More Than 10,000 People Join Lawsuit Against EasyJet for Massive Data Breach

EasyJet Plc faces a lawsuit over a data breach disclosed last month that potentially exposed private details of 9 million passengers. More than 10,000 people have joined the suit since it was filed last month, according to law firm PGMBM. …

Global Institutional Investors, Including Insurers, Urge Brazil to Control Deforestation

A group of 29 global investment firms that manage $3.7 trillion are demanding meetings with Brazilian diplomats around the world to call on right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s government to stop soaring deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The investors, led by …

UK, EU Likely to Miss Deadline for Accessing Financial Services After Brexit: Sources

Britain and the European Union are set to miss their end-June deadline for assessing future cross-border trade in financial services, leaving just six months before a potentially messy UK exit, financial industry and EU officials say. Britain left the EU …

Tropical Storm Dolly Becomes 4th Named Storm with Early Start to Hurricane Season

Tropical Storm Dolly spun up southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, becoming the Atlantic’s fourth named storm of 2020, marking the third-fastest start to a storm season in more than a century. The system’s winds reached 45 miles (72 kilometers) per …

Breckenridge Insurance Services Welcomes Expert Brokers Alan Belthoff and Dianna McCall

Atlanta, GA, June 23, 2020 — Breckenridge Insurance Services is pleased to welcome two expert brokers to the wholesale brokerage and binding firm. Alan Belthoff joins the organization as a senior vice president, senior broker and Dianna McCall as a …