Latest Ryan Specialty Group Headlines

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R-T Specialty to Buy Wholesale Broker Westrope

Nov 1 2013 // Chicago-based national wholesale insurance broker R-T Specialty said it has agreed to merge with another wholesale broker Westrope, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Westrope has a national presence with concentrations in...

WKFC Launches Miscellaneous Professional Liability Program

Oct 28 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s WKFC has launched a miscellaneous professional liability program with the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. (Chubb). The miscellaneous professional program is available for more than 100 classes of...

Business Moves

Oct 7 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group, S.H. Smith & Co. Ryan Specialty Group LLC has agreed to merge S.H. Smith & Co. Inc. into R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group. Terms of the transaction...

ANV in Strategic Deal with Ryan Specialty for Lloyd’s Managing Agency Jubilee

Sep 17 2013 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch-headquartered specialty insurance business founded by CEO R. Matthew Fairfield, and Ryan Specialty Group, LLC announced that they have entered into an agreement to combine their Lloyd’s...

Ryan Specialty Group Announces Merger of S.H. Smith & Co. Into R-T Specialty

Sep 16 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC today announced that it reached agreement to merge S.H. Smith & Company Inc. into R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group. Terms of the transaction were not...

Ryan Specialty Group’s ThinkRisk Announces New Hires in Northeast

Jun 13 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency announced three new hires in its Northeast offices: Jonathan Koppel, Katie Duff and Nicole Simmons. Koppel joins ThinkRisk as a senior underwriter. He is based in...

ThinkRisk Launches Comprehensive Content, Data Security, Privacy Program

Jun 13 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s Think Risk has launched [in]TELLIGENCE to address evolving and often overlooked operational exposures coming from technology and its effect on businesses. Recent surveys have reported that more...

People – Southeast

Jun 3 2013 // Andrea Mills has joined American Equity Underwriters (AEU) in Mobile, Alabama as senior vice president and director of Strategic Business Development. AEU is a division of wholesale broker AmWINS Group, based in Charlotte,...

People – Midwest

Jun 3 2013 // Michelle Mesina has been appointed executive vice president of human resources at Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG). Mesina has more than 15 years’ experience in the area of human resources. She has been...

Ryan Specialty Group Promotes Mesina to EVP, Human Resources

May 16 2013 // Michelle Mesina has been appointed executive vice president of human resources at Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG). Mesina has 15 years of experience in the area of human resources. She has been with RSG since...

RSG’s Sapphire Blue, Catlin Agencies Launch Rural, Specialty Hospital Program

Apr 17 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s (RSG) Sapphire Blue and Lloyd’s Catlin Underwriting Agencies Ltd. have launched a new liability insurance program specifically for U.S. small rural and specialty hospitals. The program...

Business Moves – Southeast

Oct 22 2012 // TWFG Texas-based The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) announced a substantial expansion of its network, adding new branches in multiple states, from California to Virginia. Many of the new branch managers are former...

Business Moves – Midwest

Oct 22 2012 // MJ Insurance, Mead & Company Property/casualty and employee benefits agency, MJ Insurance, has acquired Indianapolis-based Mead & Company. Mead & Company is a multi-generational family business operated by the...

Business Moves – East

Oct 22 2012 // Bollinger, The Morville Agency Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance brokerage Bollinger Inc. has acquired The Morville Agency of Newton, N.J. The Morville Agency specializes in insuring New Jersey public entities. The...

Business Moves – Midwest

Oct 8 2012 // AmWINS North Carolina-based insurance wholesaler AmWINS Group Inc. has partnered with two insurance industry executives, Terry Younghanz and Richard Parks, to form a new managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on...

Ryan Specialty Group Acquires Atlantic Star Intermediaries in New York

Oct 2 2012 // Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group L.L.C. announced Monday that its wholesale arm R-T Specialty L.L.C. has acquired assets and operations of Atlantic Star Intermediaries L.L.C. Terms of the transaction were not...

Ryan Specialty to Buy Direct Group in UK

Sep 18 2012 // The Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) announced that it would “significantly strengthen its MGA and third party administration (TPA) capabilities in the UK” with an agreement to acquire insurance services provider...

CRC, Crump, R-T Specialty Reach Confidential Settlement Agreement

May 7 2012 // On May 4, 2012, CRC Insurance Services Inc., Crump Insurance Services Inc., and R-T Specialty LLC jointly announced that the three parties resolved all existing disputes between them. All three organizations said the...

Business Moves – East

Apr 16 2012 // BB&T Corp., Crump Group BB&T Corp., a major regional bank and insurance broker based in Winston-Salem, N.C., completed its previously announced acquisition of insurance businesses from Crump Group, a Roseland,...

Business Moves – Midwest

Apr 16 2012 // Great American Insurance Group Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s environmental division opened a regional office in New York City. The expansion complements the environmental division’s...