January 5, 2021
Lockton Companies’ Lockton Dunning Benefits has hired Jason Mahler, Travis Brashear and Don Harrison, expanding its growing presence in the Houston market. All three executives will work closely with the firm’s clients across the nation to develop data-driven employee benefits …
January 5, 2021
A Delaware judge ruled this week that former Viacom shareholders may pursue a lawsuit accusing Shari Redstone of engineering a “patently unfair” merger that created ViacomCBS Inc. so she could become a media magnate like her late father, Sumner Redstone. …
January 5, 2021
Lava spattered and flowed over the weekend inside the crater of a Hawaii volcano that began erupting in December. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the lava is confined to the summit crater of Kilauea, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The eruption …
January 5, 2021
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Phoenix, Ariz.-based Ashton Tiffany LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ashton Tiffany founders John Ashton and Michael Tiffany, Jr., and their associates, will continue to operate from their current location as …
January 5, 2021
Genworth Financial and China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. can’t seem to put the finishing touches on their agreement for Oceanworth to buy Genworth, a $2.7 billion cash deal that was first proposed in October 2016. The parties had originally hoped …
January 5, 2021
Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) has acquired the Staffing Insurance Business offered by World Wide Specialty Programs Inc., based in Melville, N.Y. World Wide will operate as a division of PHLY and assume responsibility for its book of staffing business with …
January 5, 2021
World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency Inc. of North Attleboro, Mass., on December 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency Inc. was established in 1938 and has grown …
January 5, 2021
Two businesses and their owners have been charged with fraud against the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF). Manuel Sanchez and his business Lagos Construction have been charged with grand larceny and other crimes for allegedly failing to pay insurance …
January 5, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief said on Monday he has finalized a rule to limit what scientific research the agency can use to formulate regulations, in a concession to big business weeks before President Donald Trump leaves office. …
January 5, 2021
Specialist Risk Group (SRG), a London-based specialist insurance broker, announced it has acquired KBIS British Equestrian Insurance, a well-established broker within the equestrian market. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Purchased by Guy and Liz Prest in 1991, …