February 2016/4

Former Cooper Gay CEO Toby Esser has reached a deal with private equity house Madison Dearborn that will give him a $500mn war chest to build a new distribution business with, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

It's always been a brutal world for wholesalers.

Aon has appointed RT Specialty as its sole "preferred" wholesaler for US retail business as it continues to cut the volume of premium it places through third-party intermediaries, The Insurance Insider can reveal.