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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Alexandria, Louisiana-based Watkins Insurance & Benefits, LLC, dba Watkins Group — Insurance & Benefits Specialists. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2008, […]

Highstreet Insurance Partners has acquired Michigan-based Paragon Underwriters. Paragon Underwriters is a program manager that focuses exclusively on attorneys and law firms. Highstreet. has now completed 125 transactions since forming the company in mid-2018. Paragon […]

CNA Hardy Taps Zurich’s Crew, Chubb’s Devenish for Management Liability Team CNA Hardy has appointed Edward Crew as senior technical underwriter, and Oliver Devenish, as underwriter, to the London/Lloyd’s Management Liability team. Based in London […]

More than four grueling months and $300 million later, the federal government has declared the largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history 100% contained, a notable milestone but just another step in what local residents […]

One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole millions of dollars […]

The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending an average 8.4% cut in workers’ compensation rates for the Florida voluntary market – the seventh straight reduction and double the size of the decrease for this […]

Pennsylvania-based Erie Insurance has launched Erie Strategic Ventures to invest in innovations in risk avoidance, claims, underwriting, digital sales, agency productivity, and products and services for home, families and small businesses. Erie said the venture […]

State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and two former claims-adjuster sisters, who more than 16 years ago filed a lawsuit claiming the insurer committed fraud against the government’s National Flood Insurance Program following Hurricane Katrina, […]

Global insurance broker Hub International reports it has acquired the assets of Winter Harbor Insurance Group. Located in Woburn, Massachusetts, Winter Harbor Insurance Group is an independent insurance agency providing commercial and personal insurance. Jimmy […]

Activists mounting one of the world’s first legal challenges over corporate greenwashing have expanded a case against gas producer Santos Ltd., raising fresh allegations about the company’s climate plans. A suit filed against the oil […]