Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
OPTIS Partners: Insurance Agency Mergers, Acquisitions Still Going Strong
Jul 27 2017 // Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) among North American insurance agencies continued at a strong pace during the second quarter of 2017, with 135 reported transactions in the second three months of 2017, Chicago-based...
Thomas Joins Insgroup’s Employee Benefits Practice in Houston
Jul 17 2017 // Insgroup Inc. has added Timothy Thomas as a vice president in its Employee Benefits Practice in Houston. Thomas brings over 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry in both employee benefits and...
Varanese Joins Alliant’s Employee Benefits Team in Ohio
Jul 14 2017 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has added Jennifer Varanese as vice president within the company’s Employee Benefits Group in the Columbus, Ohio. Varanese joins Alliant with extensive...
Alera Group Acquires Group Benefits of Memphis
Jul 13 2017 // Alera Group – an independent insurance agency and independent employee benefits – has acquired Group Benefits LLC of Memphis, Tennessee, effective July 1. Alan Levitz, CEO of Alera, said the company’s strong...
Risk Strategies Company Hires Two to Employee Benefits Practice in New York
Jul 11 2017 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Kate Genovese and Pauline Sobelman to its employee benefits practice group. Sobelman joins as senior vice...
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Jul 10 2017 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton has named Jeff Henningsen as president of its Houston property/casualty insurance operation. Henningsen will take on an expanded leadership role in business development for the...
Alliant Hires Pennsylvania’s Hill as Employee Benefits Group Expands in East
Jul 6 2017 // Alliant has hired Martin Hill as it continues to expand the presence of its Employee Benefits Group throughout the eastern U.S. As vice president, Hill, who is based in Pennsylvania, will leverage his background in...
January, Rupper and Sanders Join RHSB Insurance in Dallas
Jun 22 2017 // Dallas-based independent insurance broker RHSB has added Austin January, Dan Rupper and John Sanders as assistant vice presidents. January, AVP employee benefits, is an experienced employee benefits consultant proficient...
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...
