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Travelers improved cat cover with ‘modest’ increase in costs: CFO Frey
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Helvetia recruits LatAm veteran Cardona as Miami chief
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CRC to acquire TL specialist MGA Euclid Transactional
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Brown & Brown sues Howden in Massachusetts over employee raid
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Howden continues poaching blitz with 200+ Brown & Brown raid
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Agency deal roundup: WTW, Gallagher, King, Choice and Trucordia
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CAC tie-up ‘a catalyst for growth and margin expansion’: Baldwin CEO
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Agency deal roundup: Trucordia and Hilb
Agency deal roundup: Trucordia and Hilb | Insurance Insider US
GBLI’s Katalyx recruits ex-IAP partner Hull as corporate development head
GBLI’s Katalyx recruits ex-IAP partner Hull as corporate development head | Insurance Insider US
Liberty Mutual withdraws capacity from LatAm MGA Dynamic Re
Liberty Mutual has indicated that it will pull its capacity from the MGA Dynamic Reinsurance, Insurance Insider US has learned. It Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Agency deal roundup: King Risk, World and Trucordia
Let’s get you up to speed on this week’s top agency M&A news. King buys two agencies Floridian private retail platform King Risk agreed to buy Stuart Surles Insurance and Acacia Insurance, both for undisclosed amounts. Based Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
CRC in advanced talks to buy TL specialist MGA Euclid Transactional
CRC Group is in advanced talks to acquire heavyweight transactional liability (TL) specialist MGA Euclid Transactional, after edging out Big Three rival Amwins, Insurance Insider US can reveal. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Dual lines up Liberty Mutual paper for LatAm business
MGA platform Dual has secured capacity support from Liberty Mutual for its businesses in Latin America, Insurance Insider US can reveal. The Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Peltz’s activist hedge fund Trian exits Allstate
Activist hedge fund Trian Fund Management has liquidated its remaining position in Allstate, over two years after the firm built a stake in the personal lines insurer. The Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Agency deal roundup: Alliant, Amynta and Trucordia
Let’s get you up to speed on this week’s top agency M&A news. Alliant snaps up Highpoint California-based private broker Alliant Insurance struck a deal to buy Highpoint Insurance Group for an undisclosed sum. Located Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
TL market seeing ‘fractionally higher rates’ as M&A picks up: Woodruff Sawyer
Woodruff Sawyer’s head of transactional liability (TL), Emily Maier, said she is seeing a “slight increase” in reps and warranties rates as demand for M&A insurance picks up. “We Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Third-party insurers to represent two-thirds of portfolio in midterm: Accelerant
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Private broker organic growth slows to 7.4% in Q3: Reagan Consulting
Organic growth across US private agencies slowed to 7.4% in Q3 from 7.8% in Q2 and 9.4% a year ago, marking the third consecutive quarterly deceleration, according to Reagan Consulting. Meanwhile, Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Tiptree shareholder Veradace opposes $1.65bn Fortegra-DB deal
Tiptree investor Veradace Partners has opposed the firm’s sale of specialty and warranty insurer Fortegra to DB Insurance, urging other shareholders to vote against the deal at the firm's special meeting of stockholders on December 3. Veradace Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Macquarie looking to secure capacity for launch of London business
Macquarie Insurance Facility (MIF) is reaching out to capacity providers to launch a London-based MGA arm, Insurance Insider US can reveal. It Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Agency deal roundup: MMA, Gallagher, Patriot Growth, Keystone, Afore and more
Let’s get you up to speed on this week’s top agency M&A news. MMA acquires Hayden Wood Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) struck a deal to acquire Hayden Wood Insurance Agency for an undisclosed sum. Based Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Denver retail brokerage IMA prepares for 2026 minority process
Private retail broker IMA Financial Group is preparing for a recap process that will likely bring in another minority investor to support its fast-growing platform, Insurance Insider US can reveal. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Macquarie looking to secure capacity for US MGA arm
Macquarie Insurance Facility (MIF) is reaching out to capacity providers to launch a US MGA arm, Insurance Insider US can reveal. It Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Denver retail brokerage IMA prepares for 2026 minority process
Private retail broker IMA Financial Group is preparing for a recap process that will likely bring in another minority investor to support its fast-growing platform, Insurance Insider US can reveal. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
The US market ‘a growth area’ for us: MNK Group CEO Kumar Original
Following the launch of Floridian carrier Florida Re, MNK Group CEO Manoj Kumar told Insurance Insider US that the company has plans to expand its operations “in due course” across the US market. In Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
MMA in talks to acquire Hawaii’s largest independent broker Atlas
Marsh McLennan Agency (MMA) looks set to emerge as the acquirer of Hawaii’s largest independent retail brokerage Atlas, sources told Insurance Insider US. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Aon Re Miami fac director Alba to join Lockton
Aon Re facultative director Raul Alba has resigned and will join Lockton later this month in Miami, Insurance Insider US can reveal. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
AIG to participate in 7.5% of Convex’s book at 1.1 via QS deal: CEO Zaffino
AIG CEO Peter Zaffino said the insurer will have the opportunity to participate in 7.5% of Convex’s portfolio on January 1 as part of the whole account quota share agreement between the carriers. The Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
AIG posts general insurance U/W income of $793mn for Q3, up 81%
AIG’s North America commercial underwriting profits quadrupled to $384mn in Q3, sending the firm’s general insurance (GI) underwriting income up 81% to $793mn on lower cat activity and higher reserve releases. Cat Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
James River has ‘picked its horses’ in the fronting business: CEO
James River’s specialty admitted segment still has a handful of active programs, most of them fully fronted, as the carrier takes less risk in that unit, CEO Frank D’Orazio said. “We've Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
A&H, ‘high-friction’ casualty among lines drawing MGA buyer interest: BMS’s Curry
Specialty non-cat, short-tail businesses and select lines within “high-friction” casualty are among the classes attracting investor appetite in the MGA space, Josh Curry, BMS chief growth officer and head of capital solutions and advisory, told Insurance Insider US. In Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
AJ Gallagher acquires Tompkins’ retail agency arm in $223mn deal
AJ Gallagher (AJG) has struck a deal to acquire Tompkins Insurance Agencies (TIA), the retail broking subsidiary of regional bank Tompkins Financial Corporation. Under Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Abry sells auto warranty firm Portfolio to Dai Ichi’s Protective Life
Dai Ichi Life US subsidiary Protective Life has agreed to buy the auto warranty writer Portfolio Group from middle market private equity house Abry Partners amid increased M&A activity involving US and Japanese players in the insurance industry. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Everest exploring sale of Canada and LatAm units amid retail exit plans Original
Everest is still considering the divestiture of its Canadian and Latin American retail insurance operations as the carrier weighs options to move forward with its strategy to focus on reinsurance and wholesale/specialty insurance, this publication understands. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Everest books ~$301mn purchase price in AIG retail renewal-rights deal
Everest has recorded a purchase price in the insurance renewal-rights deal with AIG of around $301mn, including $252mn related to retail entities in the US, the UK, Australia or Singapore, as well as $49mn from Ireland and the European... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Any move back to admitted market won’t offset E&S growth: Powell Brown
Brown & Brown CEO J Powell Brown said that, as growth for admitted carriers becomes more challenging, some are considering moving business back from the E&S channel. However, Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
E&S insurer Asic promotes Tassone to CEO
E&S carrier AM Specialty Insurance Company (Asic) has elevated Dominick Tassone to CEO, effective January 1. Tassone has over 40 years of industry experience and joined the Dallas, Texas-based insurer in 2023 as CUO, after over a year at fronting... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Kemper P&C claims chief Sanders departs
Kemper’s P&C chief claims officer Duane Sanders has left the company, effective October 22. Sanders will remain with the carrier as EVP and executive adviser until December 31, to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities, Kemper said in an announcement. In... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Target Markets 2025 dispatch: M&A is the name of the game...again
Inorganic growth across the delegated authority and fronting segments once again took centerstage at the annual Target Markets Program Administrators Association (TMPAA) conference. On the back of recent transactions such as KKR-backed ISC’s ~$2bn sale to Onex and other investors, or CVC’s acquisition of a majority stake in California's Bamboo, sources said the sector is seeing increased dealmaking.
Charles Taylor retains boutique bank after debt renegotiation
Claims and insurance services business Charles Taylor has retained a bank to advise on its strategic options ahead of an anticipated sale following the renegotiation of terms on its debt with Ares in the spring, this publication can reveal. Sources... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Texas MGA Lumen Risk seeking PE backer
Texan MGA Lumen Risk Services is looking to bring in a private equity investor as it seeks to inject growth capital into the business, Insurance Insider US can reveal. It Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Amwins and CRC in the hunt for TL specialist MGA Euclid Transactional
Amwins and CRC Group are among the bidders for heavyweight transactional liability (TL) specialist MGA Euclid Transactional, this publication can reveal. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Los Angeles independent intermediary Venbrook mulls potential sale
Californian retailer, wholesaler and program manager Venbrook Group is considering strategic options that could lead to a sale of the business amid continued M&A activity in the US insurance distribution space, Insurance Insider US has learned. Sources Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Gallagher launches LatAm auto-follow facility Galaxy
Gallagher has launched the auto-follow cross-class tracker facility Galaxy for the Latin American market, this publication has learned. Galaxy is based on the Evolve facility Gallagher launched in February this year, offering facultative reinsurance capacity from the London market to... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Travelers Q3 CoR falls 6pts to 87.3% on lower cats as reserve releases fall
Travelers’ Q3 combined ratio (CoR) declined 6 points to 87.3% as lower catastrophe losses outweighed lower reserve releases. In the first set of Q3 results for US commercial insurers, Travelers net cat losses plunged to just over $400mn from nearly... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Lee Equity completes $1.6bn reinvestment in claims firm McLarens
Private equity house Lee Equity has completed a $1.6bn reinvestment in the claims services provider McLarens Global, extending its long-term relationship with the third-party administrator. The Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
Agency deal roundup: Sterling, Engle Martin, Westland, Oakbridge and more
Let’s get you up to speed on this week’s top agency M&A news. HGGC invests in Canada’s Sterling Private equity firm HGGC has invested in Sterling Brokers, a Canadian brokerage and third-party administrator, as Sterling’s former backer, True Wind Capital, exits.... Log in to continue Please enter your email address below. Password log in Opening your single sign-on provider... Questions about your access?
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