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Ryan Specialty Group Buys Concord Specialty Risk

Feb 10 2011 // Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) has acquired New York-based Concord Specialty Risk, a managing general underwriter and consultant that provides transactional risk insurance and loss mitigation-evaluation services. Terms of the...

R-T Specialty to Acquire American E&S from Wells Fargo

Feb 7 2011 // Chicago-based R-T Specialty, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group, has agreed to purchase the wholesale insurance business of American E&S Insurance Brokers (AES) from Wells Fargo Insurance...

Business Moves

Jan 24 2011 // Combined Agents, Elliott Insurance, HC&H Insurance Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) has added two new agency members, one located in Kansas and one in North Texas. With the addition of the two...

Wholesale Brokerage R-T Specialty Opens Dallas, Texas Office

Jan 7 2011 // R-T Specialty, LLC (RT), the wholesale brokerage arm of Ryan Specialty Group LLC (RSG) has opened a new office in Dallas, Texas. Rajan Shah will direct the office as president. Shah brings more than 17 years of experience...

RT Specialty New Administrator for Gen Star Diet Supplement Program

Dec 17 2010 // R-T Specialty has been appointed as the exclusive administrator for General Star’s NutraAdvantage program. NutraAdvantage offers specialty liability coverage for natural and organic supplements manufacturers,...

R-T Specialty Acquires Oakbridge Insurance Services

Dec 10 2010 // The wholesale brokerage unit of Pat Ryan’s Ryan Specialty Group LLC, has acquired one of the nation’s largest executive and professional liability intermediary specialists. R-T Specialty LLC acquired...

Business Moves

Nov 1 2010 // Ironshore, Distinguished Programs Bermuda-based specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. and New York-based program administrator Distinguished Programs Group LLC have formed a joint venture acquisition vehicle targeting the...

R-T Specialty Buys Southeast Wholesaler McAuley Woods

Oct 8 2010 // R-T Specialty, LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group, LLC, has acquired McAuley Woods & Associates. Headquartered in Palm Beach, Florida, McAuley Woods is a wholesale insurance brokerage that also...

Ryan Group Denies Wrongdoing by Former Employee

Sep 20 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...

Adams, James Join RT Specialty Property Team

Sep 16 2010 // Charlie Adams and Angela James have joined the RT Specialty property team in Orange County, Calif. Each brings more than 20 years of experience in the excess and surplus property marketplace. Their expertise in course of...

Ryan Group Denies Any Wrongdoing by Former AmWINS Employee

Sep 7 2010 // North Carolina-based wholesale insurance broker AmWINS has won a court order against a former employee it believes is using confidential client information to target AmWINS business accounts and win them over to his new...

E&S Wrap Up: Broker Mergers, Expansions and Start Ups

Aug 12 2010 // As goes the circle of life, so goes the wholesale insurance broker world. Not even the sixth year of a soft market cycle has deterred industry veterans from launching new wholesale businesses or creating larger ones. Many...

Business Moves

Aug 2 2010 // RSI International, Insurance Network Texas-based RSI International Inc. has acquired Insurance Network Corp. (INC), a managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1996, Insurance Network Corp. specializes...

Business Moves

Aug 2 2010 // Hub International, Maple Leaf Insurance Chicago-based Hub International Ltd. announced that its Transportation Insurance operating unit acquired the retail book of business from Maple Leaf Insurance Agency Inc., a...

As the Wholesale World Turns

Jul 19 2010 // E&S Brokerage Mergers, Expansions and Start Ups, Oh My! As goes the circle of life, so goes the wholesale insurance broker world. Not even the sixth year of a soft market cycle has deterred industry veterans from...

R-T Specialty Acquires Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers

Jul 19 2010 // R-T Specialty LLC, the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group LLC based in Chicago, has acquired Los Angeles-based Chartwell Independent Insurance Brokers LLC. Chartwell, founded in September 2004 by Ben Beazley,...

CRC Loses 100 Employees; Possible Legal Action to Follow

May 17 2010 // When 10 percent of an organization’s entire workforce resigns in one day, the fallout can be devastating. That’s exactly what happened to CRC Insurance Services Inc. (CRC) – one of the largest wholesale...

CRC Employees in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania Resign

May 6 2010 // CRC Insurance Services Inc. (CRC) – the largest wholesale insurance broker in the United States – released a memo to its customers stating that a number of CRC employees in Illinois, California and Pennsylvania...

Business Moves

Apr 5 2010 // ISU, Webb, Ken Hargis, Cox & Kimball, Darlage ISU International added four new member agencies in the Midwest: ISU Insurance Services The Webb Agency of St. Charles, Mo.; ISU Insurance Services Ken Hargis Agency of...

Aon Founder Comes Out of Retirement to Launch Global Wholesaler

Mar 7 2010 // The founder and retired chairman and CEO of the world’s largest insurance broker, Aon, has revealed the management team and a second subsidiary for his new global specialty insurance operation whose first company was...