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Cross Insurance Acquires the North Shore’s Daly Insurance

June 5, 2023 by AC Editor

ross Insurance Acquires Daly Insurance

This is the third Cross acquisition in the area since the start of 2022

Cross Insurance continues to expand its presence on the North Shore. In May of 2022, the Bangor-based agency announced a double acquisition in the arear with the acquisition of sister agencies Harold Humphrey Insurance Agency and the Byfield Insurance Agency, Inc. in the Newburyport area as well as establishing a new brick and mortar office there. Fast forward to May of this year, the agency announced that effective May 1, 2023, the North Shore’s Day Insurance Family has joined the Cross Insurance family of insurance agencies adding a third North Shore agency to its ranks.

Based in Beverly, the Daly Insurance Agency was founded 2010 by Kevin P. Daly, CPCU after a successful career working in the insurance industry. From a one-person agency with a part-time employee, Mr. Daly grew his independent agency over the past 13 years into a team of eight experienced insurance advisors focusing on providing both personal and commercial insurance.

No further terms of the transaction were disclosed.

A look at all the recent acquisitions by Cross Insurance in the New England/Northeast Area

Now considered the second-largest insurance broker in Massachusetts, Cross Insurance continues to grow its presence not only across the Commonwealth, but throughout the Northeast. Since 2020, it has made 10 agency acquisitions in the Bay State alone, not counting the one just announced. The following is a complete list of the acquisitions in the region since 2020.

QUARTER DATE ACQUIRED AGENCY ACQUIRED LOCATION
2020
Q1 1/1/2020 ACBI Connecticut
Q1 3/6/2020 Deblasio Insurance Rhode Island
Q1 3/6/2020 Gaspee Benefit Planners Rhode Island
Q2 5/1/2020 Clifton Brokerage Connecticut
Q3 7/1/2020 The Doyle Agency, Inc. Connecticut
Q3 7/10/2020 Charles Goodman New York
Q3 8/1/2020 Kettle Creek Connecticut
Q4 12/15/2020 Daigle & Travers Connecticut
Q4 12/30/2020 Boston Marine Massachusetts
Q4 12/31/2020 McSweeney & Ricci Massachusetts
2021
Q1 2/12/2021 Bedford Insurance Brokerage New York
Q2 4/1/2021 Business Benefits, Inc. Massachusetts
Q2 5/3/2021 A. J. Benet, Inc.  New York
Q2 6/15/2021 Boynton Insurance Agency Massachusetts
Q4 11/30/2021 Corkin Insurnace Agency Massachusetts
Q4 12/1/2021 The Doyle Agency, Inc. Connecticut
2022
Q1 2/1/2022 Byfield Insurance Agency, Inc. Massachusetts
Q1 2/1/2022 Harold Humphrey Insurance Agency Massachusetts
Q2 4/1/2022 Northern Benefits of Massachusetts, LLC Massachusetts
Q2 5/1/2022 J. Biron Agency, LLC Connecticut
Q2 5/1/2022 Northeast Surety, LLC Connecticut
Q2 6/1/2022 Loiselle Insurance Agency Rhode Island
Q3 7/1/2022 Marshfield Insurance Agency, Inc. Massachusetts
Q3 7/14/2022 Maine Insurance Agency Maine
Q3 8/1/2022 Patriot Benefit Solutions Insurance Agency, LLC Massachusetts
Q3 8/8/2022 DKE Risk Solutions, LLC Connecticut

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