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Apex Global Names Beck Managing Director – Business Development

Jan 12 2009 // Dallas-based Apex Global Partners (AGP) has appointed Jay Beck as managing director of Business Development for its Benefits and Consulting Division and senior vice president of the corporation. Beck has twenty years of...

Willis Names Fyfe Managing Director – Latin American Reinsurance

Jan 8 2009 // Willis International, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, has announced the appointment of Edward Fyfe as Managing Director of its growing Latin American reinsurance operations, effective immediately. He is based in Lima,...

Garrard to Head Willis Europe; Donovan Named for Australasia

Jan 7 2009 // Willis Group Holdings announced that Adam Garrard has been appointed CEO of Willis Continental Europe and Bill Donovan has been named to succeed him as CEO for Willis Australasia. The appointments were effective January 1,...

Lloyd’s, FSA Approve New MGA for ‘Sportscover’ Syndicate

Jan 6 2009 // The Financial Services Authority and Lloyd’s have given approval for a new managing agency to assume the management of the Sportscover syndicate, 3334 SCS. The new managing agency, Sportscover Underwriting Limited...

Jones Retires From Wells Fargo Insurance; Wood to Lead West Operations

Dec 23 2008 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc. announces that Samuel L Jones, executive vice president of the west region and CEO of ABD Insurance and Financial Services (ABD), will retire from Wells Fargo effective with the merger...

AXIS Capital to Acquire Managing General Agent Dexta

Dec 10 2008 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations of Australian managing general agent Dexta Corporation Pty Ltd. from its shareholders, Ironbridge Capital,...

Central Texas-Based MGA Adds Great American Markets

Dec 3 2008 // TAGA, an independent privately-owned managing general agency based in the Austin, Texas, area, announced it is now managing general agent for Great American Insurance Group to offer admitted property and inland marine...

Program Market’s ‘Best in Class’

Nov 30 2008 // Four Program Administrators Join the Ranks of Best Practices Organizations Just two years ago the Target Markets Program Administrators Association launched the TMPAA Best Practice designation as a way to encourage members...

All Claims Are Local

Nov 30 2008 // Multinational Claims Require Knowledge of Culture, Currency and Legal Climate In today’s borderless global economy, claims can arise in just about any part of the world where a company does business. Even small and...

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...

Iroquois Expands Managing Partner’s Region to Kansas and Missouri

Nov 17 2008 // The Iroquois Group recently announced that Managing Partner Philip Dawson’s management responsibilities have been expanded to incorporate the states of Kansas and Missouri. He currently handles Iroquois’ Great...

Attract and Win Social Services Business with Risk Management Strategies

Nov 16 2008 // How Insurance Professionals Can Be Valuable Advisors to Non-Profit Organizations Operating a non-profit social service business has always been a challenging balance between meeting constituent needs, funding the...

Nov 2 2008 // Tom Hughston, executive vice president of North Texas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), has been named to the board of directors of The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, a trade association...

Nov 2 2008 // Pete Garvey, current president of Integro Ltd., assumed the additional responsibility of CEO for the insurance broker, succeeding Roger Egan, who has left the company. Garvey has served as president of Integro since 2005....

Montpelier Re Forms Lloyd’s Managing Agent

Oct 24 2008 // Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that it has received approval from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Lloyd’s to establish a wholly owned Lloyd’s Managing Agent subsidiary. The new unit...

Loucaides Joins Lloyd’s Jubilee Managing Agency

Oct 21 2008 // Jubilee Managing Agency, a specialist Lloyd’s insurer, has announced the appointment of Andreas Loucaides, the former CEO of Catlin UK, as Director of Underwriting “to expand its portfolio and diversify its...

Beecher Carlson Names Levene Managing Director, Opens Dallas Office

Oct 20 2008 // Commercial insurance brokerage and risk management consultancy Beecher Carlson has appointed Steve Levene as managing director. Levene will establish an office in Dallas to expand Beecher Carlson’s footprint in...

People

Oct 20 2008 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Lionheart Insurance Services hired Pat Piccinonno and Joe Weckerle Jr. to head its newly opened Irvine, Calif., office. Piccinonno, appointed president, has 35 years of insurance management and...

Surplus Lines: A Market in Transition

Oct 20 2008 // The Soft Market and Financial Crisis Could Lead Firms into ‘Uncharted Waters’ For surplus lines insurance providers the economic turmoil and soft insurance market means a double-hit on profitability. Some...

Industry Innovators Give Agents Alternative Solutions

Oct 20 2008 // How to Use Surplus Lines Brokers and Managing General Agents Recent estimates show that about one third of all commercial risks in the United States are placed in an “alternative market.” As producers already...