Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
SCM Names Melbon Executive Vice President of Employee Benefits
Jul 2 2013 // SullivanCurtisMonroe named John E. Melbon executive vice president of the employee benefits division. Melbon has held senior level positions in management and sales, on both the carrier and broker side. Additionally, he...
Lockton Names Gusmão CEO for Brazil
Jun 20 2013 // Lockton announced the appointment of Tony Gusmão as CEO of its Brazilian businesses. He has more than 20 years of experience, primarily in Employee Benefits, having run consulting and actuarial firms in South Africa and...
Indiana Tech Sues Hospital She Says Denied Medical Leave
May 30 2013 // A southern Indiana woman asserts in a federal lawsuit that the hospital where she worked fired her after she requested medical leave in order to take care of her disabled son. Katherine Harner of Shoals sued Daviess...
Administration Issues Workplace Wellness Program Guidelines
May 29 2013 // Employees will be eligible for significantly lower premiums on the health insurance they buy through their employers if they participate in “workplace wellness programs,” even if they don’t improve their...
Thomson Named VP of Employee Benefits for SterlingRisk in Utah
May 29 2013 // SterlingRisk Insurance Services named Michael Thomson vice president of employee benefits for its Utah. Thomson has more than 20 years of employee benefits insurance experience. He has provided employee and risk management...
Willis Acquires Employee Benefits Broker T.E. Burke & Associates in Maryland
May 29 2013 // Willis of Maryland, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, acquired accounts and certain personnel formerly associated with T.E. Burke & Associates Inc., an employee benefits insurance broker based in Rockville,...
Workplace Wellness Has Only Modest Effect on Bottom Lines, Waistlines: RAND
May 29 2013 // A long-awaited report on workplace wellness programs, which has still not been publicly released, delivers a blow to the increasingly popular efforts, Reuters has learned, casting doubt on a pillar of the Affordable Care...
Byrne Named Chair of The Council of Employee Benefits Executives
May 23 2013 // Tim Byrne, vice president and partner at Wisconsin-based M3 Insurance, has been named chair of the Council of Employee Benefits Executives (CEBE), effective June 1, 2013. The Council of Employee Benefits Executives is a...
Shestack to Lead New AmWINS Voluntary Benefits Practice
May 22 2013 // Wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Benefits has opened a voluntary benefits division to offer supplemental benefits to benefit professionals and their clients including life, dental, vision, accident, short-term...
Bill Ensures Paid Family Leave For California Workers
May 21 2013 // California businesses would be prohibited from firing or retaliating against employees who take advantage of the state’s paid family leave program under a job-protection bill moving through the Legislature. The...
EPIC Names Beale Employee Benefits Consultant in California
May 13 2013 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center named Kris Beale an employee benefits division senior compliance consultant in its San Francisco, Calif. office. Beale will assist EPIC clients with federal, state, and local health care...
BB&T Names Husges Employee Benefits Account Manager In California
Apr 23 2013 // BB&T Insurance Services named Dan Husges as an account manager for its employee benefits group in Pleasanton, Calif. Raleigh, N.C.-based BB&T Insurance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of BB&T Corporation,...
Merger & Acquisition Activity Off to a Quiet Start
Apr 22 2013 // After a record-setting year-end, 2013 started off with a whisper. First quarter merger and acquisition activity slowed to 37 announced transactions between January and March, down from 67 the prior year. Buyers were busy...
Baltazar to Head New BrokersLink Global Employee Benefits Group
Apr 11 2013 // Independent insurance broker network BrokersLink has launched a Global Employee Benefits Practice Group and appointed Gerard Baltazar as its first Chairman. The group “will drive business development in the area of...
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Advanced Benefit Advisors in New Jersey
Apr 8 2013 // Itasca, Ill.-based global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of Advanced Benefit Advisors Inc. of Cherry Hill, N.J. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2005,...
Burnham Benefits Expands To Northern California
Apr 3 2013 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services is staking out Northern California for a push toward further expansion with new offices in the region and new senior leadership on board to drive growth and market...
2012 Insurance M&A Snapshot
Mar 25 2013 // Here is a snapshot of the property/casualty insurance industry merger and acquisition activity reported byInsurance Journal in 2012. Major carrier transactions included Nationwide’s acquisition of Harleysville, The...
Agency M&A Advisory Firm Sees ‘Lack of Quality Acquisition Opportunities’
Mar 12 2013 // A mergers and acquisitions advisory firm focusing on the insurance agency sector says it is hearing more this year about “a lack of quality acquisition opportunities,” which could lead to fewer deals this year...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Names Gruppo Southwest Regional CEO
Mar 11 2013 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., has appointed Anthony Gruppo as regional CEO for MMA’s Southwest Hub, effective March 18. He will be based in Houston. Gruppo brings...
The Acquisition Cycle
Mar 11 2013 // Insurance agency mergers and acquisitions were up last year, at an all-time high in fact, according to the Chicago-based M&A advisory firm OPTIS Partners. A recent survey conducted by the financial services consulting...
