June 20, 2017
Kaplansky Insurance, an independent, locally owned insurance agency based in Needham, Mass., has acquired Gath Insurance Agency in Lowell, Mass. Gath Insurance provides a range of insurance services to both personal and commercial clients. The addition of Gath marks the …
June 20, 2017
EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has acquired After Inc., a product warranty analytics firm based in Norwalk, Conn. The acquisition was made primarily to further strengthen and grow EPIC’s …
June 20, 2017
Seeman Holtz Property and Casualty Inc. has acquired Stevenson Ranch, Calif.-based Direct Choice Insurance. With Colby Singer at helm, his team specializes in helping clients find the lowest possible rates for auto, home, life and business insurance with major insurance …
June 20, 2017
Iowa-based insurance services firm, TrueNorth, has added Lane Danielsen as a producer within its risk management division. He is based in West Des Moines, Iowa. Danielsen has more than 12 years of experience in sales and most recently worked with …
June 20, 2017
Trōv is a tech start-up that’s introducing the world to a new way to insure their things: on-demand for any duration, entirely from a smartphone. We’ve had to reinvent the insurance value-chain — from customer engagement through claims — by …
June 20, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court gave companies a new tool to defeat some legal claims, siding with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in a bid to limit a consumer lawsuit in California over its Plavix blood thinner. The justices, voting 8-1, said the …
June 20, 2017
A bolt of lightning started a fire that damaged 12 apartments in Florida. Orlando Fire Department spokeswoman Ashley Papagni told the Orlando Sentinel that lightning struck the attic of one apartment in the complex Friday afternoon. The fire spread across …
June 20, 2017
DTRT Insurance Group, Inc. (Do The Right Thing) has acquired Insurance Authority, Inc., a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage firm based in Sunrise, Fla. Insurance Authority has been serving the residents of Sunrise & Greater Fort Lauderdale communities since …
June 20, 2017
The PURE Group of Insurance Companies has expanded its PURE Programs excess & surplus (E&S) line offering designed to protect higher risk homes insured for $1 million or more, into South Carolina. With this expansion of the offering, PURE policyholders …
June 19, 2017
Biglari Holdings Inc. and Pacific Specialty Insurance Co. announced a definitive agreement for a subsidiary of Biglari Holdings to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the parent company of California-based Pacific Specialty and its affiliated agency, McGraw Insurance Inc., …