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Hurricane Florence Hits Close to Home for North Carolina-Based Broker AmWINS
Sep 14 2018 // For North Carolina-headquartered global insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc., Hurricane Florence isn’t just a storm that will affect insureds – many of its own employees and agents are also directly in the...
AmWINS Forms Sentinel Marine Underwriters with Houston Office
Aug 13 2018 // AmWINS Group Inc. (AmWINS) has formed a new managing general agency with a focus on marine risks, Sentinel Marine Underwriters (SMU). Executive vice presidents Mark Bernas and Keith Blair will lead SMU from Houston, Texas,...
AmWINS Targets Marine Insurance with Creation of 2 Specialty MGAs
Aug 13 2018 // Global insurance wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group has formed two specialty managing general agencies focused on the marine industry, AmWINS Specialty Logistics Underwriters (ASLU) and Sentinel Marine Underwriters...
Petrilli Named President of AmWINS Group’s Underwriting Division
Aug 6 2018 // AmWINS Group Inc., the Charlotte, N.C.-based independent wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products, announced that Robert “Bob” Petrilli has been named president of the firm’s underwriting...
Protective Insurance, AmWINS to Offer For-Hire Commercial Trucking Product
Jul 23 2018 // Protective Insurance Co., a property-casualty insurer specializing in trucking and workers’ compensation, has partnered with AmWINS Transportation Underwriters (ATU) to offer a program to support for-hire commercial...
QBE, AmWINS Launch E&O Coverage for Architects, Engineers, Design Businesses
Jul 17 2018 // QBE North America has formed a partnership with AmWINS Program Underwriters (APU) to offer errors and omissions coverage for architects, engineers and design (A&E) businesses. The launch is part of QBE’s...
Furlong Joins AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia
Jun 21 2018 // AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia has added Alex Furlong, an energy and environmental specialist, to its casualty team. He will be based in Atlanta. Prior to joining AmWINS, Furlong spent several years as a casualty producer at...
Amwins’ Davies Tapped to Lead New Property Underwriting Facility for Ryan Specialty Group
Jun 20 2018 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has named Katie Davies as president and CEO of a new, yet-to-be-named property catastrophe managing underwriting facility that will be exclusive to RT Specialty. Company...
Purviance Takes Helm from DeCarlo at AmWINS; Other Management Changes Take Effect
May 1 2018 // Scott M. Purviance has officially succeeded M. Steven DeCarlo as the chief executive officer at specialty wholesale broker AmWINS Group. The Charlotte-based brokerage also announced other that management changes have taken...
AmWINS Completes Acquisition of Seacoast Brokers, Trident Claims Management
Feb 7 2018 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has completed the previously announced acquisition of Seacoast Brokers, LLC, and Trident Claims Management, LLC. Seacoast is a personal...
Business Moves
Jan 22 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC, Kerwick & Curran Inc. Ryan Specialty Group LLC has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the assets and operations of Kerwick & Curran Inc. Terms of the transaction were not...
Change at Top at AmWINS: Purviance to Take Over DeCarlo’s CEO Role
Jan 17 2018 // Charlotte-based global wholesale broker AmWINS Group announced that Scott M. Purviance will succeed M. Steven DeCarlo as the company’s chief executive officer, effective May 1, 2018. DeCarlo, who has served as CEO of...
AmWINS Group to Acquire Seacoast Brokers, Trident Claims Management of South Carolina
Jan 4 2018 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Seacoast Brokers, LLC, a South Carolina-based personal lines specialty MGA that designs,...
Business Moves
Nov 20 2017 // AmWINS, Willis Towers Watson Specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group reported that it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of 15 insurance programs from Willis Towers Watson. Terms were not disclosed. The...
AmWINS Completes Acquisition of 15 Insurance Programs from Willis Towers Watson
Nov 2 2017 // Specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group reported that it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of 15 insurance programs from Willis Towers Watson. Terms were not disclosed. “The programs, product...
AmWINS Acquiring 15 Insurance Programs from Willis Towers Watson
Oct 16 2017 // Specialty broker AmWINS Group reports it has agreed to acquire 15 insurance programs from broker Willis Towers Watson. Among the programs being acquired by AmWINS are MountainGuard, which provides underwriting, claims and...
Brokers Bucking Disruption: How Wholesalers Hang On Through Change
Sep 4 2017 // As long as there is an insurance industry, wholesaler brokers believe they will have a role to play. “We will continue to be an important sector – a small sector – but still a very important sector of how...
AmWINS Launches Site Pollution Liability Program for Small Auto Servicing Firms
Jul 28 2017 // AmWINS Program Underwriters has launched a new stand-alone site pollution liability program to offer a streamlined alternative for small auto servicing entities to obtain site pollution liability coverage. The program,...
Fearless Brokers on Disruption by Insurtech: ‘Bring It On’
Jul 5 2017 // Executives of retail and wholesale property/casualty brokers, who have heard predictions about disintermediation for years, are not worried about the latest wrinkle in the stories of their demise—the rise of insurtech...
In ‘Classic’ Soft Market Battle, Brokers and Carriers Attack Each Other
Jun 14 2017 // Chief executive officers of property/casualty insurance carriers and insurance brokers called each other out last week for engaging in activities they said are “classic signs of a soft market.” During a session...
