{"id":4982,"date":"2026-07-10T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/gallaghers-rps-buys-med-james-to-extend-wholesale-reach-across-six-states\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:37:42","slug":"gallaghers-rps-buys-med-james-to-extend-wholesale-reach-across-six-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/gallaghers-rps-buys-med-james-to-extend-wholesale-reach-across-six-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher&#8217;s RPS buys Med James to extend wholesale reach across six states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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 &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; a six-state footprint spanning the Mid-South and Mountain West where admitted carrier retreat from transportation, garage, environmental and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3600,4007,4004,2585,4006,2984,4005,2786,3857],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-buys","tag-extend","tag-gallaghers","tag-james","tag-med","tag-reach","tag-rps","tag-states","tag-wholesale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}