The geographic logic of the deal is specific. Med James is based in Overland Park and operates from five additional offices in Springfield, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; Las Vegas, Nevada; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Phoenix, Arizona – a six-state footprint spanning the Mid-South and Mountain West where admitted carrier retreat from transportation, garage, environmental and catastrophe-exposed lines has been particularly pronounced. Those are precisely the lines Med James writes: transportation, garage, professional liability, excess and umbrella, environmental, inland marine and cyber. The deal gives RPS a regional presence in markets where wholesale demand for hard-to-place commercial lines has grown and where RPS previously lacked dedicated local capacity.
Gallagher’s RPS buys Med James to extend wholesale reach across six states
