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Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires North Carolina’s Taylor Insurance Agency

Jun 10 2009 // Illinois-based international insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Walker Taylor Agency of Wilmington, North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Spanning five generations with...

Business Moves

Jun 1 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Nourse Insurance Brokers Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Nourse Insurance Brokers Inc. in Walnut Creek, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1935, Nourse...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Nourse Insurance Brokers

May 19 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Nourse Insurance Brokers Inc. in Walnut Creek, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1935, Nourse Insurance Brokers Inc. is a retail insurance broker...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Texas-based Employee Benefit Broker

May 11 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired the Sellers Group LLC, an employee benefit broker in The Woodlands, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1997, Sellers Group LLC offers a full range...

MacDougall Joins William Gallagher Associates in Boston

Mar 16 2009 // Insurance industry veteran Bruce MacDougall has joined independent insurance brokerage William Gallagher Associates in Boston as a senior vice president. At William Gallagher, MacDougall will develop relationships and...

Arthur J. Gallagher Q4 Net Income Drops 80%

Feb 13 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher reported net income for the fourth quarter dropped 80 percent. The Itasca, Illinois-based company’s fourth quarter net income declined to $4.7 million or $0.05 per share from $23.4 million or...

Gallagher Buys Waco Agency

Feb 13 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced it has acquired Fidelity Benefits & Insurance Services in Waco, Texas. Founded in 2003, Fidelity Benefits & Insurance Services (FBIS) is an employee benefits consultant...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Dallas-Based PartnerSource

Feb 9 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired retail insurance broker and consultant PartnerSource Inc. in Dallas, Texas, Gallagher announced. Organized in 1994, PartnerSource specializes in the design, implementation and...

Liberty Mutual Drops Direct Sales to Middle Market Businesses

Feb 8 2009 // Puts Faith in Independent Agents Liberty Mutual Group is throwing in the towel on direct distribution of insurance to middle market businesses. Because it couldn’t beat independent agents and brokers — who...

E.P.I.C. Announces Settlement with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Jan 25 2009 // San Mateo, Calif.-based EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center) reached a mutually agreeable and confidential resolution to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s pending lawsuit, the company reported. AJG and its...

Liberty Mutual Drops Direct Sales to Middle Market Businesses; Puts Faith in Independent Agents

Jan 22 2009 // Liberty Mutual Group is throwing in the towel on direct distribution of insurance to middle market businesses. Since it couldn’t beat independent agents and brokers — who dominate sales in this segment —...

Business Moves

Jan 11 2009 // Editor’s Note: For a comprehensive report of mergers and acquisitions for 2008, see Special Report: Agency Mergers in 2008 in the Dec. 22, 2008, edition of Insurance Journal. Euclid Insurance, Illinois American...

E.P.I.C. Announces Settlement with Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Jan 9 2009 // San Mateo, Calif.-based EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center) announced that it has reached a mutually agreeable and confidential resolution to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s pending lawsuit. Arthur J....

Brown & Brown Insurance Buys New Jersey’s Gallagher Associates

Jan 5 2009 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has purchased the assets of Gallagher Associates in Blackwood, New Jersey. Gallagher Associates, with annualized revenues of approximately $2.0 million, sells...

Gallagher Stocks Up; M&A Activity Steady

Dec 21 2008 // Stock Prices: Arthur J. Gallagher’s stock price remarkably continues to hold strong as many stocks are experiencing historical declines. Gallagher is up 6.5 percent for the year. M&A Activity: Brokerage activity...

Gallagher & Co. Acquires Treiber Agencies

Dec 10 2008 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. recently announced the acquisitions of The Treiber Group LLC and Treiber Agency Group LLC, both located in Garden City, N.Y. Terms of the transactions were not...

People

Nov 30 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Indiana Insurance, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, recently announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Midwest...

Arthur J. Gallagher Buys Georgia’s Continental Special Risks

Nov 25 2008 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s subsidiary, Risk Placement Services, Inc., reported that it has acquired Continental Special Risks, Inc., in Roswell, Georgia. Terms of the transaction were not...

Arthur J. Gallagher Buys The HR Group of Tennessee

Nov 20 2008 // International insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported it has acquired The HR Group, LLC in Brentwood, Tennessee. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1996, The HR Group offers...

Gallagher Joins WorkCompEdge as Contributor

Nov 13 2008 // Michigan-based commercial insurance broker and consultant Maureen Gallagher has joined WorkCompEdge as a contributor, announced Kory Wells, WorkCompEdge blog editor and director of product development for Specific Software...