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AmWINS Launches New Cyber Liability Product
Jul 7 2015 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, announced today the launch of a new dedicated excess facility designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for cyber liability...
Brokers, Insurers Ready to Tackle Small Business Market
Jun 1 2015 // There is a shift happening in the small business segment and the insurance industry is aware and ready for it. The small businesses that survived the recession are different now, say underwriters. They have had to invest...
People – East
Apr 20 2015 // American International Group Inc.named Gaurav D. Garg as chief executive officer, Personal Insurance. The appointment marks the return of Garg to AIG, where he held various personal insurance roles for 12 years before...
AmWINS Announces HPR/Engineered Risk Practice
Apr 14 2015 // Specialty broker AmWINS Group Inc. has launched an Engineered Risk Practice within its brokerage division. The Highly Protected Risk (HPR)/Engineered Risk practice handles property placements for insureds with generally...
Scruggs Named CEO of Texas-Based AmWINS Specialty Auto
Apr 9 2015 // AmWINS Group Inc. appointed David Scruggs as chief executive officer of AmWINS Specialty Auto (ASA), based in Richardson, Texas. Scruggs previously served as president of ASA. In his new role, Scruggs will be responsible...
AmWINS Brokerage Announces Appointments in New Jersey, New York
Apr 9 2015 // AmWINS Brokerage of the Mid Atlantic hired John Carlsen as senior vice president. Carlsen specializes in public entity risks, with an emphasis on CAT/natural disaster exposures. Prior to joining AmWINS, he was executive...
People – Southeast
Jan 26 2015 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Swift was named to the additional post of chairman in a transition that occurred earlier than the insurer had initially planned. Swift, 53,...
The Walker Group Rebrands to AmWINS Brokerage of New York
Jan 9 2015 // Effective Jan. 1, 2015, The Walker Group, an AmWINS Group company, has changed its name to AmWINS Brokerage of New York to expand AmWINS Group’s brand in New York state. Located in Syracuse and Amherst, New York, The...
AmWINS Launches Small Business Division
Jan 7 2015 // Wholesale broker AmWINS Group Inc. has launched a fifth division, AmWINS Access, which is dedicated to small account binding authority business. In conjunction with the launch of this new division, offices of Gresham &...
The Spirit of Life: P/C Insurance Industry Helps Find a Cure for Cancer
Dec 15 2014 // The past year will be remembered as a special year for the City of Hope and its insurance industry supporters. The industry, which has been supporting the cancer treatment and research center for 36 years, broke all...
Getting a Grip on Ridesharing Coverage
Jul 17 2014 // Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and new ridesharing companies have been cropping up...
Getting a Grip on Ridesharing Coverage
Jul 7 2014 // Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular among consumers looking for a more convenient alternative to taxis or other forms of public transportation, and startup ridesharing companies have been cropping up...
AmWINS Acquires Cabrillo and Tidewater in California
Jul 1 2014 // AmWINS Group Inc. has acquired Cabrillo Pacific Insurance Services, a non-standard auto insurance managing general agent, and Tidewater Pacific Adjusters, the administrator that manages claims and appraisal functions for...
Business Moves
Jan 13 2014 // Brown & Brown, ICA Brown & Brown Inc. has acquired certain assets of insurance claims adjusting firm ICA Inc., based in Charlotte, N.C. Terms were not disclosed. With annualized net revenues of approximately...
AmWINS Completes Acquisition of Bliss & Glennon and eReinsure
Jan 2 2014 // AmWINS Group Inc. completed its acquisition of Bliss & Glennon and eReinsure. AmWINS signed an agreement to acquire the firms from Fortegra Financial Corp. on Dec. 2. Terms were not disclosed. Bliss & Glennon is an...
AmWINS CEO DeCarlo Named 2014 Honoree of City of Hope Charity
Dec 19 2013 // The City of Hope and the National Insurance Industry Council said M. Steven DeCarlo, CEO of Charlotte, North Carolina-based AmWINS Group Inc., will be honored at the NIIC’s 2014 Spirit of Life Award dinner for City...
Business Moves
Dec 16 2013 // AmWINS Acquires Bliss & Glennon, eReinsure AmWINS Group Inc. has reached a definitive agreement with Fortegra Financial Corp. to acquire Bliss & Glennon, an excess and surplus lines wholesale insurance broker and...
AmWINS to Acquire Bliss & Glennon in California from Fortegra
Dec 3 2013 // AmWINS Group Inc. has reached a definitive agreement with Fortegra Financial Corp. to acquire Bliss & Glennon, an excess and surplus lines wholesale insurance broker and managing general agency in California, and...
AmWINS to Acquire Bliss & Glennon and eReinsure from Fortegra
Dec 3 2013 // North Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. has agreed to a deal with Fortegra Financial Corp. to acquire both Bliss & Glennon, an excess and surplus lines wholesale insurance broker and managing...
AmWINS Group Seeks $175M Acquisition Loan
Oct 23 2013 // North Carolina-based wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group Inc. is seeking a $175 million add-on term loan for an acquisition. The insurance broker owned by private-equity firm New Mountain Capital LLC may pay interest at 3.75...
