Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ascoma International Group Joins Worldwide Broker Network
May 28 2014 // Worldwide Broker Network has announced that Ascoma Group has joined the fully integrated WBN network of independent insurance brokers and employee benefits consultants, “which now counts 96 member firms in 101...
Eastern Insurance in Massachusetts Announces New Appointments
May 27 2014 // Eastern Insurance Group in Massachusetts has added five new executives to its team of more than 300 employees. Gregory Grintchenko has joined Eastern as senior vice president, personal lines sales manager. Grintchenko, of...
Willis to Acquire Sweden’s Employee Benefits Provider Max Matthiessen
May 27 2014 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced that it will acquire a controlling stake of approximately 75 percent in Max Matthiessen, an employee benefits adviser in Sweden, for $205 million. Willis said the acquisition...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Visicor in Texas
May 19 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC has acquired Visicor, an employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm based in Friendswood, Texas. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All of Visicor’s leadership and employees...
USI Insurance Taps Lockton Exec as Strategic Consultant in New York
Apr 9 2014 // USI Insurance Services has appointed Pauline Sobelman as strategic consultant for its New York metropolitan office. For the past five years, Sobelman served as vice president, senior consultant at Lockton Companies,...
Agency M&A in 2013 Reverted to Norm After Busy 2012: OPTIS Partners
Apr 7 2014 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies fell in 2013, with 248 reported transactions in the United States and Canada, according to a new semi-annual survey by OPTIS Partners, an investment banking and financial...
New Benefits Adds Latkowski in Dallas
Mar 27 2014 // New Benefits, a Dallas-based provider of employee benefits and services, announced that Brian Latkowski joined the company as executive vice president, employee benefits practice leader. Latkowski has more than 20 years of...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires L&R Benefits in Connecticut
Mar 19 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its acquisition of L&R Benefits, LLC of Windsor, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. L&R Benefits provides employee benefit consultation, management...
Aon Acquires UK’s Lorica Employee Benefits
Mar 17 2014 // Aon announced that it has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory confirmation, Lorica Employee Benefits, one of the UK’s most experienced and well-respected consultancy groups. Lorica Employee Benefits is a...
Agency M&A in 2013 Reverted to Norm After Busy 2012: OPTIS Partners
Mar 13 2014 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies fell in 2013, with 248 reported transactions in the United States and Canada, according to a new semi-annual survey by OPTIS Partners, an investment banking and financial...
Barney & Barney in Southern California Names Five New Principals
Mar 11 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based Barney & Barney has promoted five senior executives to principals of the firm. The new principals, all of whom are based in California, are: Sara Bennett, an executive in the property/casualty...
New York Assembly OKs Paid Family Leave Insurance Bill
Mar 7 2014 // New York’s Assembly passed a series of bills Wednesday intended to provide affordable child care, increase funding for child care subsidies and establish paid leave for medical emergencies, the birth or adoption of a...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Tudor Risk Services in Massachusetts
Mar 5 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Tudor Risk Services, LLC located in Woburn, Mass. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2009, Tudor Risk Services is a retail insurance broker...
AssuredPartners Acquires Creech & Stafford in Kentucky
Feb 27 2014 // Lake Mary, Fla.-based AssuredPartners Inc., through its Neace Lukens platform, has completed the acquisition of Creech & Stafford Insurance Agency Inc. in Kentucky. The terms of the transaction were not...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Louisiana Insurance Agency Kent, Kent & Tingle
Feb 21 2014 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Kent, Kent & Tingle, a retail insurance broker based in Shreveport, La. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1989, Kent, Kent & Tingle (KK&T)...
Marsh & McLennan Expands in Michigan with Employee Benefits Firm
Feb 5 2014 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh LLC, has acquired Great Lakes Employee Benefit Services, an employee group benefits consulting and brokerage firm based in Troy, Mich. Terms of the transaction...
IMA Adds Schaefer, Hamann and Lea in Dallas
Feb 3 2014 // IMA Inc. has added three new business development associates to the Dallas office. Jim Schaefer joins the Dallas team as vice president of employee benefits; Ross Hamann joins the Dallas benefits team in business...
Willis Acquires Benefits Division of Alabama’s Capital Strategies Group
Jan 23 2014 // Willis North America said it has acquired the employee benefits consulting division of Birmingham, Alabama-based Capital Strategies Group Inc. Capital Strategies Group’s employee benefits consulting division, led by...
Willis Launches Global Human Capital & Benefits Practice
Jan 22 2014 // Willis Group Holdings announced that it is creating a new global Human Capital & Benefits (HCB) Practice to be led by Tim Wright, who will add this new role to his duties as CEO of Willis International. “The...
Benefits Team Joins Leavitt Group in Washington
Jan 14 2014 // The Leavitt Group’s Tacoma, Wash. office has expanded services by bringing on three employee benefits professionals. Jon Montgomery, senior executive vice president of benefits, will lead the new employee benefits...
