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BancorpSouth Insurance Acquires Alabama Agency, Securance Group
Jul 3 2012 // BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, has agreed to acquire the assets of The Securance Group, Inc., an independent property/casualty and life/health insurance agency headquartered in...
CNA Completes Acquisition of Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd.
Jul 3 2012 // Chicago-based CNA Financial Corporation and Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Limited announced the successful completion of CNA’s acquisition of Hardy, which was approved by Hardy shareholders in April 2012. The bulletin...
Confie Seguros Adds 3 Agencies; Names Maxwell to M&A Post
Jul 2 2012 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance focused on the needs of Hispanic consumers, continued its national expansion program with the the addition of three insurance agencies. Confie has completed...
White Mountains to Acquire 2 Runoff Subsidiaries From AIG Division
Jun 28 2012 // White Mountains Solutions Holding Co., a specialist runoff acquisition operation for White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., is continuing its acquisition activities. White Mountains Solutions said it has entered into an...
Medical Liability Insurer ProAssurance to Acquire Medmarc in Virginia
Jun 28 2012 // ProAssurance Corporation, a Birmingham, Ala.-headquartered medical liability insurer, said it is acquiring Medmarc Insurance Group. Medmarc, based in Chantilly, Virginia, specializes in products liability insurance for...
Esurance Extends Discounts to Same-Sex Couples in Domestic Partnerships
Jun 27 2012 // Esurance, the direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, is offering new car insurance savings to same-sex couples in domestic partnerships and civil unions in 21 new states across the country. Same-sex couples who...
Michigan’s InPro Insurance Group Acquires Falvay-Counihan Insurance
Jun 27 2012 // InPro Insurance Group, a Troy, Mich.-based independent insurance agency, announced the acquisition of Falvay-Counihan Insurance Inc., of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Through the acquisition, InPro gains Falvay-Counihan’s...
Liberty Mutual’s Indian Joint Venture Receives Insurance License
Jun 27 2012 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Group announced that Liberty Videocon General Insurance Company Ltd, a joint venture between Liberty Mutual Insurance Group and Videocon Industries Ltd., has received the necessary license from...
Britton Gallagher Acquires Wisconsin’s Beckman Insurance Agency
Jun 25 2012 // Britton Gallagher, based in Cleveland, Ohio, has acquired Beckman Insurance Agency of Wisconsin. The acquisition is part of the firm’s strategic growth plan in the amusement industry, the company said. Mike Beckman...
White Mountains Acquires 2 PICO Holdings Insurers in Run-Off
Jun 22 2012 // White Mountains Solutions Holding Co. , a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. and the group’s specialist runoff acquisition operation, has agreed to acquire Physicians Insurance of Ohio...
Italy Regulators Conditionally Approve Unipol – Fondiaria-SAI Merger
Jun 21 2012 // Italy’s antitrust and insurance regulators have given conditional clearance for a plan by insurer Unipol to take over its loss-making peer Fondiaria-SAI, removing most of the regulatory hurdles hanging over the deal...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Alabama’s Whitehaven Insurance
Jun 20 2012 // Illinois-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Whitehaven Insurance Group, Inc. in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1994, Whitehaven Insurance...
AIA Endorses Invitation to Mexico to Join Trans-Pacific Partnership
Jun 20 2012 // David F. Snyder, vice president and associate general counsel at the American Insurance Association, has issued a statement endorsing Mexico’s invitation to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The proposed...
RiskMeter.com Partners With BuildFax to Offer Roof Age Reports to Carriers
Jun 20 2012 // RiskMeter Online, a provider of real-time natural hazard risk reports, is now offering an enhanced product in conjunction with BuildFax, the creator of the first and only database of historical building permit data....
Fairfax Runoff Sub RiverStone to Acquire All Shares of Brit Insurance Ltd.
Jun 19 2012 // The Netherlands-based Brit Group and Canada’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited have announced that RiverStone, Fairfax’ runoff subsidiary, has entered into an agreement with Brit to purchase all of the...
StoneHill Reinsurance Partners Formed in Minnesota
Jun 18 2012 // Dan Koshiol, a 15-year veteran of major reinsurance brokerage firms, announced the formation of StoneHill Reinsurance Partners LLC. The company is based in Bloomington, Minn. Koshiol serves as president and chief executive...
Wells Fargo Looking to Buy Insurance Brokers, CEO Says
Jun 18 2012 // Wells Fargo & Co., which has been renewing its appetite for acquisitions lately, is interested in buying insurance sales businesses, according to its chief executive. “I love the insurance distribution...
Last Loans Used to Buy AIG, Bear Stearns Assets Repaid: Fed Reserve
Jun 15 2012 // The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Thursday the last of its loans made to acquire risky assets from AIG and Bear Stearns during the financial crisis have been paid off with interest. The Fed bank acquired the...
Ex-Partner Sues Dewey, Says Law Firm Was Ponzi Scheme
Jun 14 2012 // A former partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf has sued a group of the law firm’s ex-leaders for fraud, saying they ran the now-bankrupt firm as a Ponzi scheme to benefit themselves. Henry Bunsow, an intellectual property...
Southport Lane Acquires Redwood Reinsurance
Jun 14 2012 // Southport Lane, a New York-based private equity firm, has acquired Redwood Reinsurance SPC, Ltd., a Cayman Islands-based reinsurer that provides treaty reinsurance for workers compensation and general liability insurance...
