Connecticut-based Robinson & Cole has fast-tracked an eight-member team acquisition from Philadelphia’s White & Williams to expand its Manhattan insurance law practice.

Robinson & Cole Managing Partner Stephen E. Goldman said Friday that White’s industry-leading insurance financial lines team, led by partner John F. McCarrick, was already located in New York City and would essentially be a turnkey operation. Joining McCarrick are fellow partner Erica Kerstein; two counsel, Phyllis A. Ingram and Sedgwick M. Jeanite; and four associates, Meryl Breeden, Joseph A. Finelli, Dmitriy Gelfand and Andrew G. Lipton.