Agents & Brokers News

U.S. Risk Acquires Workers’ Compensation Wholesaler Unisource

Specialty lines underwriting manager and wholesale broker U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. has taken over Florida-located Unisource Program Administrators, a wholesaler of workers’ compensation, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will enable the Dallas-based U.S. Risk to double its workers’ …

North Carolina’s AmWINS Sells Fresno Office

Charlotte, N.C.-based AmWINS Group, Inc. and Crouse and Associates Insurance Services are pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement for Crouse and Associates to acquire AmWINS’ Fresno office effective August 31, 2010. Terms of agreement were not disclosed. …

RISC Adds Staub, Anderson in Brokerage Department

Bryan Staub and Kelly Anderson have joined Dallas-based surplus lines insurance broker and managing general agent RISC Inc. in its brokerage department. Anderson has joined the firm as a senior associate. She has nine years of property/casualty experience and most …

Someone Moved Your Cheese. Now What?

2010 Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium On September 14 and 15 MarketScout will host over 400 industry leaders in Dallas, Texas at the fourth annual Entrepreneurial Insurance Symposium. To maintain market share, underwriters, retail agents and intermediaries must adapt. Those who understand …

Endurance Appoints Falcon as Head of Reinsurance for Latin America

Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings announced that Arturo E. Falcon has joined Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance to lead the expansion of Endurance’s global reinsurance portfolio in the Latin American market. He is based in a new Endurance reinsurance office in Miami, Florida. …

Keystone Adds Two Kentucky Agencies to Network

Keystone Insurers Group today announced the addition of two more franchisees to its growing list of partner agencies. Both are in Kentucky. Houk Insurance Agency of Horse Cave and Mountain Valley Insurance in Barbourville bring the Kentucky franchise total to …

Florida-based Unisouce Aquired

Texas. U.S. Risk, a privately owned specialty lines underwriting manager and wholesale broker headquartered in Dallas, Texas, today announces the acquisition of Sarasota Florida based Unisource Program Administrators. The acquisition doubles the size of U.S Risk’s workers’ compensation written premium …

Wholesale Trading Co-Op Launches to Serve Large Brokers

Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) and one of its co-founders John Hahn and industry investor Jeff Cappel, announced the formation of Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services LLC (WTC), a boutique wholesale brokerage firm that will serve approximately 30 large, privately …

AWISpro Names Fisher Allied Healthcare Specialist

AWISpro, the executive, professional, and environmental risk division of Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services LLC, has hired Toby Fisher as allied healthcare specialist to expand the capabilities of the business unit to create opportunities for the company’s agents to grow their …

IA&B Groups Elects New Officers and Directors

The Insurance Agents & Brokers, a partnership of agents’ associations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania has elected new directors. Chairman David Rosenkilde, of ABCO/ICS Insurance Services Inc., in Reisterstown, Maryland, and Vice chairman Robert B. Hall, of Francis Hall Insurance …