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Look Before You Leap On Agency M&AsSurprisingly, some independent insurance agencies and brokerage firms do not do their homework prior to entering a merger or ...

Voodoo Valuations Curse Agency M&AsDeep in the Louisiana swamps, there lies the legend of the voodoo queen Marie Laveau, who provided simple but costly answers ...

Sampling The M&A Climate Two states with significant agency merger and acquisition activity are Texas and New York, but local independent agent associations say that ...

S.C., N.Y. Look To Expand Captive Mkt.Two domiciles--South Carolina and New York--are making legislative moves to gain a step in the race to enlist captive ...

Clarification Russell F. Neary, an underwriter for GeneralCologne Re Marine Worldwide, has offered a clarification of some information presented in a Feb. 11 article on ...

Agents Look Long-Term For True ValueIt is certainly no secret that agency values have rebounded strongly since they hit bottom in the early 1990s.Agency values ...

Federal Terrorism Reinsurance Ideas Get Worse As The Debate Wears OnThe latest proposal to create a federal backstop for terrorism reinsurance demonstrates just how bad ...

Agency Management System Firms Get Cozy, But Merger Seen As Unlikely Agency management software rivals Applied Systems and AMS Services Inc. have entered a new ...