Risk Strategies Company News

Risk Strategies Acquires John Buttine Inc. in New York City

Risk Strategies Company announced Tuesday that it has acquired John Buttine Inc., an insurance brokerage in New York City with a specialty focus on media-related businesses and services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1946, John Buttine …

Risk Strategies Acquires Maggs & Associates in New York

Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Maggs & Associates in Schenectady, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1987, Maggs …

Risk Strategies Acquires Lester Brokerage in New Jersey

Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced that it has acquired Lester Brokerage, an independent agency in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in …

Risk Strategies Company Adds Wiek to Private Client Team in Nashville

Risk Strategies Company, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has expanded its nationwide Private Risk Management (PRM) practice with the hiring of Carol Wiek as vice president, private client. Wiek is based out of the Nashville …

Risk Strategies Hires Landry as Loss-Control Engineer in Boston

Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Amy M. Landry as a property loss-control engineer. Landry is based in Risk Strategies’ Boston headquarters office. Landry is a certified fire protection specialist (CFPS) …

Private Equity Firm Kelso to Acquire Majority Stake in Boston’s Risk Strategies

Risk Strategies Company, a Boston-Based insurance and benefits brokerage, and Kelso & Company, a New York City-based private equity firm, announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby Kelso will acquire a majority stake in Risk Strategies from …

Planning the Special Event Insurance for Pope’s Philadelphia Visit

Pope Francis’ two-day visit to Philadelphia this weekend, which will close the Holy Father’s six-day apostolic journey to the U.S., has a special event policy in place with W.R. Berkley Corp. and OneBeacon Insurance as lead underwriters, according to a …

Risk Strategies Acquires Benefit Development Group in Massachusetts

Risk Strategies Co., a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced it has acquired Benefit Development Group, a Worcester, Massachusetts-based broker for health insurance, group, and voluntary benefits in the Northeast. This latest transaction marks the …

Boston’s Risk Strategies, New York’s DeWitt Stern Merge

Risk Strategies Co., an insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, and DeWitt Stern, a brokerage and risk advisory firm based in New York City, announced their merger. The combined organization will be called Risk Strategies Co. and …

Boston-Based Risk Strategies Co. Sells Majority Stake to Kohlberg & Co.

Risk Strategies Co., a Boston-Based insurance and benefits brokerage and risk management firm, announced that private equity firm Kohlberg & Co. has acquired the majority of Risk Strategies’ stake. The brokerage said Mount Kisco, N.Y.-based Kohlberg & Co. has also …