employee benefits News

HM Risk Taps Horack as Executive VP in Missouri

Steve Horack has joined St. Louis, Mo.-based HM Risk as executive vice president of business development. Horack has more than 22 years of insurance industry experience. He began his career with Aetna Life & Casualty in 1990. He has served …

Large Employers to Keep Health Insurance Benefit for Now: Survey

Most large employers don’t expect to send their full-time employees to government health exchanges for insurance during the next five years, but some retirees and part-time workers will end up there, a new survey has found. The outlook for corporate …

Lockton Adds Two Executives To Arizona Employee Benefits

Jacob Brown and Jim Stabilito will join Lockton as senior executives in the insurance broker’s Phoenix, Ariz. operation. Brown and Stabilito are veteran employee benefits advisors who work with corporate clients to build benefit programs that help attract and retain …

Assurex Global Launches Employee-Benefits Marketplace Platform

Assurex Global has launched a new private marketplace employee benefits platform for employers to offer a wide-range of administrative flexibility and employee health benefit options. “Employers have been struggling for years with ever-increasing medical costs,” said Assurex Global President and …

Hylant Promotes Crisan to Senior VP

Toledo, Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant, has promoted Robert Crisan to the Hylant corporate employee benefits team as senior vice president, health care reform and strategic growth. In his expanded corporate role, Crisan will be an expert resource and provide thought …

Strickland Joins Woodruff-Sawyer in Oregon

Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Marc Strickland to the firm’s Portland, Ore. office as vice president and account executive of employee benefits. Strickland will be responsible for overseeing and delivering client service, while also helping to grow the Oregon benefits practice …

Wells Fargo Introduces National Health & Productivity Practice

Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Co. is launching a health and productivity national practice, the San Francisco, Calif.-based company announced on Tuesday. The group, which is part of the company’s national employee benefits practice, is designed to …

RGEB Moves to Larger Headquarters in Southern California

RGEB Employee Benefits, a San Fernando Valley, Calif.-based group insurance and employee benefits firm, has relocated to a new headquarters in Canoga Park. The move gives the agency an additional 2,500 square-feet of office space, and will accommodate its growing …

Digital Insurance Acquires Tennessee’s Capital Benefits Group

Atlanta-based employee benefits agency Digital Insurance has acquired Tennessee’s Capital Benefits Group. It marks Digital’s first office in Tennessee. Terms were not disclosed. Capital Benefits Group, which has 800 clients and 16 staff members, has become part of Digital Benefit …

Less Than 50% of Small Businesses Offer Employee Benefits: LIMRA

Only 47 percent of small businesses (2-99 employees) in the United States offer benefits to their employees, the lowest level in two decades of research by the life insurance industry research organization LIMRA. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 98 …