TITLE

Insurance broker consolidation claims top 20 firms

AUTHOR(S)

McLeod, Douglas

PUB. DATE

December 1997

SOURCE

Business Insurance;12/22/97, Vol. 31 Issue 52, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents information on corporate takeovers in the insurance brokerage market. Reference to the takeover of Alexander and Alexander and by Aon Corporation; Speculations on the merger of Sedgwick Group P.L.C. and Willis Corroon during 1998; Similarity between the mergers made in the insurance and reinsurance markets.

ACCESSION #

18652

Tags: CORPORATE reorganizations

 

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