Monarch Insurance Services Inc. is purchasing Bishop Insurance Agency from American Savings Bank. The transaction is expected to be completed Dec. 31, 2009. American Savings, which bought Bishop Insurance in 2001, did not disclose the sale price. For

One of Brown & Brown Inc.'s subsidiaries acquired the assets of Insurance 1 Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The operations will be run as a specialty division of Brown & Brown's existing Lafayette, La., operation. For more

James E. Benoski, Cincinnati Financial Corp. vice chairman, will retire, effective Jan. 16, 2009. Benoski, who continues to serve on the board of directors, stepped down from his positions as president, chief operating officer and chief insurance

On Jan. 7, I peered into my crystal ball for the likely Top-10 Property-Casualty Insurance Stories of 2008. Read on to see how my predictions ...