Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Office of America Acquires Assets of Slaton Risk Services in South Florida
Jun 22 2017 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) has purchased the Employee Benefits Practice, Major Accounts Group, and captive and alternative risk financing units of Slaton Risk Services, based in West Palm Beach, Fla. These assets,...
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Jun 19 2017 // West Des Moines, Iowa-based GuideOne Insurance has named Jessica E. Clark as the company’s new chief executive officer. Bringing nearly 20 years of leadership experience in property and casualty insurance, Clark...
Startup Decisely: Insurtech ‘For Brokers, By Brokers’ Targets Small Business Benefits
Jun 16 2017 // Some see insurtech as the enemy. Others see it as a sign of things to come. Then there’s EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, which is clearly embracing the insurtech craze while soliciting brokers to join...
New York’s Crystal & Company Names Cooke Director of Employee Benefits Unit
Jun 8 2017 // Crystal & Company, a New York-headquartered strategic risk and insurance advisor, has hired Mary Cooke as director for its Employee Benefits Services unit. In her new role, Cooke works out of the firm’s national...
NFP’s Ryan Joins Cal Insurance as Director in Employee Benefits
Jun 6 2017 // San Francisco-based CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named John M. Ryan director of employee benefits advisory. Ryan has experience working with middle-market businesses to design employee benefits program...
Stengle Named Sr. VP, Employee Benefits, at Ohio Brokerage, Hylant
Jun 2 2017 // Toledo, Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant, has named Jim Stengle as senior vice president, employee benefits business development manager. It is a newly created role within the agency’s Employee Benefits...
USI Acquires Employee Benefits Business from Pennsylvania’s The Hartman Group
May 30 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Hartman Employee Benefits Inc. (Hartman Employee Benefits) from The Hartman Group. Hartman Employee Benefits and its employees will remain at the current Williamsport and State...
Connecticut’s Smith Brothers Hires Peruccio from Cigna Healthcare
May 26 2017 // Smith Brothers, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based insurance broker, has added Chelsea Peruccio as an employee benefits advisor. Her responsibilities include new business development, account management and creating employee...
Maine’s Cross Insurance Promotes Jermyn to President of Benefits Division
May 25 2017 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-headquartered subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has promoted Eric Jermyn to president of Cross Employee Benefits. He will be based in Portland, Maine. In this new role, Jermyn’s...
Houston’s Platform Partners Acquires Voluntary Benefits Firm, Beneplace
Apr 20 2017 // Platform Partners LLC (Platform), a private company headquartered in Houston, has completed the acquisition of Beneplace LLC (Beneplace), markets and distributes voluntary employee benefits and employee discount programs...
Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: Risks and Opportunities
Apr 14 2017 // Accurate genetic testing stands to transform modern medicine by offering effective, personalized treatment. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized marketing of the first direct-to-consumer (DTC)...
USI Acquires North Carolina’s Cameron M. Harris & Co.
Apr 12 2017 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Cameron M. Harris & Company, an insurance brokerage firm in North Carolina. Cameron M. Harris & Company and its employees will remain at the current Charlotte location. Terms of...
Risk Strategies Acquires Massachusetts’ Mosse & Mosse
Apr 11 2017 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added to its employee benefits practice and expertise with the acquisition of Mosse & Mosse Associates LLC’s...
Alliant Adds Arguelles to Employee Benefits Group in New Orleans
Mar 28 2017 // Sajeo Arguelles has joined Alliant Insurance Services’s employee benefits group as vice president in its New Orleans office. Arguelles will work with clients throughout the Southeast to design and deliver benefits...
Verhoef Named Director of Employee Benefit Sales at Western Growers
Mar 27 2017 // Western Growers Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Jason Verhoef to director of employee benefit sales. Verhoef will lead sales efforts to provide affordable healthcare insurance options for agribusinesses throughout...
Hub Names Ryan Employee Benefits Market Leader in Northern California
Mar 14 2017 // Hub California has named John Martin Ryan employee benefits market leader for Northern California. Ryan is responsible for managing and overseeing Northern California employee benefit producers, recruiting employee...
Alliant Acquires Burkhardt Consulting in Idaho
Mar 13 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Burkhardt Consulting LLC. Burkhardt joins Alliant’s employee benefits group, with the firm continuing to service clients from its Coeur...
Hylant Names Boone President of Orlando Office
Mar 13 2017 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, has named Brian Boone president of its Orlando, Fla., location, effective April 10. From 2009 to 2013, Boone held the role of employee...
SWBC Employee Benefits Consulting Group Promotes Grove, Birdwell
Mar 8 2017 // SWBC Employee Benefits Consulting Group (EBCG), based in San Antonio, Texas, has promoted Andrew Grove to senior vice president of Sales & Market Development and Gary Birdwell to senior vice president of Service &...
USI Insurance Services Acquires Carolina First Associates in North Carolina
Mar 8 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Carolina First Associates LLC, an employee benefits insurance advisor located in Hickory, N.C. This acquisition extends USI’s presence as a middle market insurance brokerage...
