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Gallagher Completes Agency Acquisitions

Jan 4 2001 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed two acquisitions: Persing, Dyckman & Toynbee Inc., of Tacoma, Washington, and Castle Insurance Associates Inc. of Boston. Terms of the transactions were not...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires SiliconInsurance

Dec 5 2000 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired SiliconInsurance of Chicago. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded by Michael Flanagan, Silicon provides a full range of property/casualty and risk consulting...

Six Insurance Commissioners Elected; Incumbents Maintain Seats

Nov 20 2000 // Six insurance commissioner seats were up for grabs during the Nov. 7 election, with only two incumbents seeking reelection. Twelve states elect commissioners rather than appoint them. In Delaware, two-term incumbent Donna...

Incumbents Maintain Seats in Commissioner Races

Nov 13 2000 // Six insurance commissioner seats were up for grabs Nov. 7, with only two incumbents seeking reelection. At press time, all official tabulations were not completed, so the percentage by which some of the winners were...

Incumbents Maintain Seats in Insurance Commissioner Races

Nov 8 2000 // Six insurance commissioner seats were up for grabs Tuesday, with only two incumbents seeking reelection. At the time of this writing, all official tabulations were not completed, so the percentage by which some of the...

Arthur J. Gallagher Co. Appoints New Executive

Oct 18 2000 // John F. McCaffrey has joined Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. as its vice president of market relations. McCaffrey brings over 35 years of experience in the insurance services industry. He began his career in 1963 with the...

Arthur J. Gallagher Net Earnings Up 18 Percent for 2000

Oct 13 2000 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced on Thursday its financial results for the third quarter and nine months that ended Sept. 30. Total revenues were $526,944,000, compared to $471,629,000 last year, an increase of 12...

Arthur Gallagher Sued for “Kickbacks”, Contingent Commissions

Sep 27 2000 // The Village of Orland Hills, Ill., sued Arthur J. Gallagher last week, charging that the broker took “kickbacks” and violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. The alleged...

Gallagher Acquires Three Agencies

Sep 20 2000 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed the acquisition of three agencies; Atlantic Risk Management Corporation, of Baltimore; Murphy Consultants, of Elgin, Ill.; and R.G. Speno, Inc. Insurance Brokerage, of...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires John P. Woods, Colonial Agency

Sep 6 2000 // Co. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired John P. Woods Co. Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia, and The Colonial Agency, Inc. of upstate New York. Terms of the transactions were not...

Arthur J. Gallagher Reports Record Quarterly Revenues

Jul 20 2000 // Second quarter 2000 was good for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., which reported record quarterly revenues of more than $158.4 million for the three-month period that ended June 30. The revenue represents a 9.5 percent...

Arthur J. Gallagher Co. Acquires Four Agencies

Jun 12 2000 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed four insurance agency acquisitions, purchasing Davis-Poston & Assoc. of Dallas; Bultman/Bell Associates of Greenville and Columbia, S. C.; Universico Group of St. Claire...

Bricks and Mortar Agencies Clicking to Compete

Apr 10 2000 // Higginbotham & Associates, Arthur J. Gallagher make dash for the Internet. Being web accessible will be an absolute necessity for insurance agencies and brokerages in the next few years. So says Rusty Reid, president...

Australia Juggles Mergers & Disasters

Apr 3 2000 // Driven in part by 1999’s particularly poor results, and perhaps encouraged by the recent mega-merger announcements from Europe (CGU-Norwich Union and Deutsche Bank-Dresdner Bank), Australia’s insurance/...