Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
M&A Wrap-Up: Insurance Brokerage Mergers Took a Third Quarter Vacation
Nov 23 2009 // Deal making wasn’t at the top of the list of summer activities this season, but deal vacation was. Third quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continued declining to just 30 announced transactions...
Hoehne Joins Lockton Benefit Group in Minneapolis
Nov 23 2009 // Christine Hoehne has joined Lockton Benefit Group as an account executive in Lockton’s International Benefit Services practice in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to joining Lockton, Hoehne spent eight years as an account...
Colorado’s IMA Financial Hires Executive
Oct 26 2009 // The IMA Financial Group, Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management with 450 employees and offices in seven markets across the nation, today announced that Lindsey...
Insurance Brokerage M&A Took a 3rd Quarter Vacation
Oct 19 2009 // Deal making wasn’t at the top of the list of summer activities this season, but deal vacation was. Third quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continued declining to just 30 announced transactions between...
Morse Joins Willis Employee Benefits in Atlanta
Oct 1 2009 // Ward Morse has been named vice president and producer of Willis’ Georgia Employee Benefits Practice in Atlanta. He will be responsible for new business activity and sales for the insurance broker, and will report to...
The NIA Group Acquires Benefits Team
Oct 1 2009 // New Jersey-based brokerage The NIA Group has acquired J. Lindsay Fuller, CLU Inc. and USC Administrative Services, an employee benefits operation based in Moorestown, New Jersey. As part of the asset acquisition, J....
AmWINS Acquires Group Benefits Unit from Willis HRH
Sep 9 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH. MAG-EB is a wholesale broker of...
McQueary Henry Bowles Troy to Merge With Holmes Murphy & Assoc.
Sep 4 2009 // Dallas, Texas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P (MHBT), one of the largest privately owned insurance and risk management firms in the U.S, and the Texas division of Holmes Murphy & Associates, will merge to form...
M&A Activity Continues at a Snail’s Pace Compared to 2008
Aug 3 2009 // Insurance brokerage mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2009 was nearly half of what is was during the second quarter of 2008. Just 39 transactions were announced from April through June compared to last year...
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Jul 20 2009 // LoriAnn Lowery resigned from her position as president of Lloyd’s North America, after a little more than a year on the job. Sue Langley, Lloyd’s director of market operations and North America, said Lowery,...
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Jul 6 2009 // DeCotis Insurance Associates Inc. has named Devin B. Haughey chief operations manager. Haughey will oversee the general management and operations of DeCotis, an independent excess, surplus and specialty lines firm with...
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Jul 6 2009 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company and State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Company has named new managers in various divisions. Robert (Bob) A. Bachtell is claims manager for State...
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Jul 6 2009 // Edward J. Maucere, former owner of London American General Agency Inc., a San Diego-based wholesale brokerage and underwriting manager for commercial transportation business, passed away unexpectedly on June 12, 2009, at...
Ascension Insurance Acquires Three California Agencies
Jun 23 2009 // Kansas City, Mo.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. has announced it is acquiring three insurance agencies in California, expanding its commercial and employee benefits capabilities on the West Coast and adding specializations...
William Gallagher Makes Several Executive Appointments
Jun 18 2009 // Boston-based insurance brokerage William Gallagher Associates announced a number of executive appointments this week. Sara LaVallee has been named senior vice President, while Paula Cabral, Janice Clifford, Paula Donovan,...
EPIC Appoints Principal in Orange, California
Jun 8 2009 // E.P.I.C. (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage based in California, recently appointed David Beech as a principal in its Orange office. Beech brings 26...
Apex Global Partners Adds Bittner in Austin Office
Jun 5 2009 // Dallas-based Apex Global Partners Inc. has appointed Joe Bittner as managing director of the company’s Employee Benefits Division in Austin, Texas. Bittner is experienced in implementing and servicing corporate...
Graves Joins Hays Companies as Associate Director in Benefits Group
Jun 2 2009 // Hays Companies, a Minneapolis, Minn.-based insurance broker, recently added Ben C. Graves as associate director of research and compliance in the employee benefits division of Hays Benefits Group LLC. Graves’...
McGraw Joins Heffernan Insurance Brokers in Petaluma Office
May 29 2009 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers, an independent insurance brokerage firm, announced that Jon McGraw has joined the company as a vice president in its Petaluma (North Bay), Calif., office. McGraw specializes in employee...
Hub International Acquires Wash.’s Rettenmier Benefits Group
May 27 2009 // Hub International Ltd.’s Northwest operating unit has acquired the assets of Rettenmier Benefits Group Inc., an Everett, Wash.-based employee benefits consulting and insurance brokerage firm serving businesses and...
