Specialty
UK Specialty MGA Nexus Buys an MGA and a Broker
UK specialty managing general agent Nexus Group lived up to its description as an "acquisitive insurance intermediary holding company," with the purchase this week of an MGA and an insurance broker. ...
American Family Insurance Will Pay $1 Billion for Ameriprise Auto & Home
Ameriprise Financial is selling its Ameriprise Auto & Home (AAH) division to a subsidiary of Madison, Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance Mutual Holding Co. (American Family Insurance), the ...
The Latest Launches From Munich Re America and Beazley
Munich Re America now has a personal lines homesharing insurance product designed for folks who rent their homes out for a profit in the U.S. Beazley has added two new product lines to its broker ...
Tokio Marine HCC Snatches Up NAS Insurance Services for Undisclosed Price
Tokio Marine HCC has acquired NAS Insurance Services, LLC, a specialty insurance underwriter focused on cyber and professional liability . Neither side is disclosing financial details. NAS is a ...
Rockefeller Foundation Plans to Wind Down Climate Resilience Push
The Rockefeller Foundation will end funding and dismiss the staff at its 100 Resilient Cities program, the largest privately funded climate-adaptation initiative in the U.S., the foundation announced ...
Executives On The Move at Sompo International and AXA XL
Sompo International promoted a long-time executive in a branch of its commercial property/casualty business. A long-time executive affiliated with AXA XL is stepping down from one of its divisions to ...
Marsh & McLennan Closes $5.6B JLT Acquisition
Marsh & McLennan Cos. (MMC) completed its $5.6 billion acquisition of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT). "Today marks the beginning of a new era with Marsh & McLennan and JLT coming ...
Extreme Weather Makes Weather Trackers Valuable to Insurers, Banks, Commodity Traders
Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. The senior vice president for weather at DTN, a Minnesota-based analytics firm, knows that an ...