Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Donegal Group CEO Nikolaus to Take Temporary Medical Leave
Sep 2 2014 // Donegal Group Inc. in Marietta, Pennsylvania, announced on Aug. 29 that its chief executive officer, Donald H. Nikolaus, will be on a temporary medical leave of absence. The board has named Donegal Group’s Executive...
Integrated Employee Benefits Merges with One Risk in California
Aug 28 2014 // Pleasanton, Calif.-based One Risk Group LLC has merged Integrated Employee Benefits Solutions into its operating platform. As a result of the merger, IEBS owner Robert Silva has joined ORG as vice president in its employee...
Lockton Adds Cooke, Haye to Employee Benefits Practice in Chicago
Aug 4 2014 // Lockton has two employee benefits experts to its Chicago operation. Joining Lockton in vice president, producer roles are David Cooke and Mark Haye. Both will be responsible for business development and client strategy at...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Benefits Brokerage, Insurance Point
Jul 31 2014 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Insurance Point LLC in St. Charles, Ill. and Salt Lake City, Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Insurance Point offers employee benefit...
Vits Joins Burnham Benefits as Senior Account Executive in California
Jul 21 2014 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services named Helen Vits a senior account executive in its Irvine, Calif. office. Vits will consult with Burnham clients as they structure their employee benefit packages. Vits’ career in...
Presson Joins Woodruff-Sawyer’s Employee Benefits in California
Jul 15 2014 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Anne Presson director of benefits innovation. Presson will focus on developing, piloting and implementing new strategies for the employee benefits practice. Prior...
O’Connor Named National Practice Leader for Employee Benefits at CBIZ
Jul 10 2014 // Cleveland, Ohio-based CBIZ Inc., a provider of employee benefits and insurance advisory services, has appointed Jim O’Connor national practice leader for employee benefits. O’Connor previously served as...
Suhr in California Names Tran Employee Benefits Executive
Jul 8 2014 // San Jose, Calif.-based Suhr Risk Services has named Wente Tran an employee benefits account executive. Tran will help develop the firm’s portfolio of regional and national employee benefits accounts. Tran spent the...
USI Appoints Employee Benefits Advisor in New York Metro Office
Jul 2 2014 // Mary Jo JacobsUSI Insurance Services has hired Mary Jo Jacobs as vice president and employee benefits advisor. She is based in USI’s New York metropolitan office. With more than 25 years of experience in human...
Lockton Adds Behrens to Employee Benefits Practice in Kansas City
Jun 23 2014 // Lockton has expanded its national employee benefits practice with the addition of Scott Behrens, J.D., as assistant vice president, compliance attorney in Lockton Benefit Group’s compliance services practice. He is...
USI Insurance Appoints Hall to Lead Employee Benefits Practice
Jun 5 2014 // USI Insurance Services appointed Arthur W. Hall as senior vice president, employee benefits practice leader. Hall was previously the chief executive officer of Emerson Reid, USI’s benefits wholesale operation which...
EPIC Names Dobson Principal in California
Jun 3 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has added Greg Dobson as a principal in its employee benefits division. Dobson will be based in the company’s San Ramon office. His responsibilities will include the acquisition of...
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...
