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Effective January 1, 2015, The Walker Group has changed its name to AmWINS Brokerage of New York.

AmWINS announces the acquisition of Cabrillo Pacific Insurance Services, a non-standard auto insurance Managing General Agent, and Tidewater Pacific Adjusters, the administrator that manages claims and appraisal functions for Cabrillo and other clients.

AmWINS' Group Benefits division has formed a comprehensive Self-Funding Practice dedicated solely to providing consultative products and administrative services to brokers and benefit professionals.

​​Todd Atwood, a 20-year veteran of the corporate banking and finance community, has joined AmWINS Group as the firm’s Chief Information Officer and will lead the Charlotte, NC-based company’s global information technology team.

AmWINS has completed its acquisition of eReinsure.

AmWINS has completed its acquisition of Bliss & Glennon.

AmWINS announces that it has acquired The Walker Group, a wholesale commercial lines insurance broker and MGA with two locations in Upstate New York.

AmWINS Group, Inc., a leading specialty wholesale insurance distributor, has been included among the Top 15 private companies in North Carolina, according to the N.C. Top 100, an annual ranking by Grant Thornton that ranks the state’s largest private companies.

AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired certain assets of CIMI Professional, a long-term care managing general underwriter (MGU) and a division of Chandler Insurance Managers, Inc. In conjunction with the acquisition, Matthew J. Wasta, FCAS and Amanda Fioretti of CIMI Professional have joined AmWINS Program Underwriters to establish a new underwriting branch in Farmington, Connecticut specializing in providing liability coverage for nursing home facilities, nursing exposures, as well as continuing-care retirement communities.

AmWINS Group, Inc. announces that it has combined its various non-standard auto operating entities to create AmWINS Specialty Auto, a new operation within the AmWINS Underwriting Division.

AmWINS is pleased to announce that it has completed its acquisition of Gresham & Associates, Inc.

To benefit two important cancer charities, executives at WebTPA (an AmWINS Group company) have agreed to have their heads shaved during the WebTPA Anniversary Party on November 8th, 2012.

During the month of August, AmWINS employees participated in our second annual “Day of Service”, an initiative focused on enhancing the communities in which employees live and work.

​AmWINS has partnered with two veteran insurance industry executives, Terry Younghanz and Richard Parks, to form a new managing general underwriter (MGU) focused on marketing and underwriting specialty insurance products on behalf of carrier partners.

AmWINS announces the acquisition of Special Markets Insurance Consultants, Inc.

AmWINS announced today that the firm completed its recapitalization with New Mountain Capital.

AmWINS ​announced today that its management and employee shareholders have reached a definitive agreement to partner with New Mountain Capital in a growth-oriented recapitalization valued at approximately $1.3 billion.

AmWINS today announced that Scott M. Purviance has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of the firm.  Purviance has been Chief Financial Officer of AmWINS since 2001. 

Eight insurance industry executives had their heads shaved bald on Monday night in front of a cheering crowd in Las Vegas, Nev. It was not some bizarre industry hazing ritual or ancient form of punishment. Instead it was all for a good cause as part of an effort organized by AmWINS Group Inc., setting a record for fundraising for the St. Baldrick's Foundation to fight childhood cancers. 

AmWINS Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed its acquisition of THB Group plc. The acquisition further positions AmWINS as a leading international specialty insurance distributor placing over $6.7 billion in annual premiums. The company now has more than 2,300 employees in 21 countries worldwide. AmWINS is ranked by Business Insurance magazine as the largest wholesale broker in the U.S. based on premiums placed.