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For Award Winning CSR, Going ‘Above and Beyond’ is Part of the Job

Oct 4 2010 // What does it take to deliver outstanding customer service? Kimberly J. Muesse, a senior account manager with the Lockton Companies in Houston, should know. She’s won a string of awards during her 25-plus years in the...

Lockton Names Cushard VP in San Francisco

Sep 9 2010 // Greg Cushard has joined Lockton in San Francisco as a vice president and producer, addition of an energy and transportation practice in that office. Cushard has held business development and management roles during his...

Lockton Adds 4 Execs to D.C. Construction Practice

Aug 13 2010 // Insurance broker Lockton Cos. has expanded its Construction Services Group with the addition of four construction insurance and surety experts in its Washington, D.C. operations. Douglas A. Crowe, Jr. and Alexander N....

Lockton Names Kjar VP in San Francisco

Aug 6 2010 // Steven Kjar has joined Lockton in San Francisco as a vice president and retirement plan producer. He will expand the company’s depth of expertise in employee benefits with the addition of a Retirement Plan practice...

Lockton Adds Froscheiser as Producer, Advisor in Executive Benefits

Jul 28 2010 // David Froscheiser has joined the Kansas City, Mo., office of privately held insurance broker Lockton as an executive benefits producer with Lockton Financial Advisors LLC. Froscheiser will provide expertise to...

Lockton Names Reiff New Chief Operating Officer in St. Louis

Jul 21 2010 // The St. Louis, Mo., office of privately owned independent insurance brokerage, Lockton, announced that Robert W. (Bob) Reiff is the office’s new chief operating officer. As COO, Reiff will be responsible for the...

People

Jul 5 2010 // EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center) added Tina Brink as a senior account executive in its Folsom, Calif., office, and Lori Perry as a senior account executive in its San Francisco office. Brink brings more than 18...

Tokar Joins Lockton Denver in Benefits Department

May 10 2010 // Leo Tokar has joined the Denver office of Lockton Companies LLC, a privately held insurance broker, as senior vice president, client service executive in the Benefits Department. He will play a key role in developing...

Lockton Launches ‘Scope, Insurance’ for Surgery Outside of U.S.

Apr 27 2010 // The Lockton Companies (Singapore) Pte Ltd has launched an insurance product to cover the cost of medical complications for medical travelers receiving surgery abroad in collaboration with QBE International Ltd, the...

Lockton Adds Able, Andricks, Brookshire to Retirement Unit in Dallas

Apr 21 2010 // Lockton Financial Advisors and Lockton Investment Advisers has expanded its Dallas-based retirement practice. Glenn Able joins the Lockton retirement team as vice president. Able has more than 24 years of experience in the...

Lockton: Soft Market Pricing Continues to Benefit Insurance Buyers

Apr 19 2010 // Commercial insurance buyers continue to benefit from lower prices and steady or increasing insurance capacity in property/casualty markets, reports the nation’s largest insurance broker. In its newly published...

Lockton Chicago Adds Schmidt to Employee Benefits Practice

Apr 13 2010 // Kansas City, Mo.-based insurance broker the Lockton Companies has expanded its Chicago team with the addition of Thomas M. Schmidt as a vice president in the Employee Benefits Practice. Prior to joining Lockton, Schmidt...

Linn to Lead Lockton’s New Benefits Practice in Minneapolis

Mar 30 2010 // Kansas City, Mo.-based insurance organization, Lockton Companies LLC, has opened a Minneapolis, Minn., employee benefits consulting practice headed by Vice President/Team Lead Melody Linn . With more than 13 years of...

Security Breach Notification Laws Reinforce Need for Cyber Insurance

Mar 4 2010 // With more than 40 states now enforcing privacy and security breach notification laws, underwriters are working hard to scoop up the business this niche creates, while also tweaking their policy forms to provide the...

‘Hackers’ Prompt Lockton to Advise Risk Managers on Cyber Thieves

Feb 25 2010 // “A new wave of hacker attacks is breaching corporate and outsourced information systems with one information security firm recently detailing coordinated hacker attacks on 2,400 companies and government agencies...

Young Agents Survey

Feb 21 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice. A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...

Lockton Expert Analyzes Product Contamination, Recall Insurance Market

Feb 17 2010 // The specialist market for insurance covering product recall and product contamination is resilient and stable, according to Ian Harrison, an expert in the field, in a new report – “Supply and Demand Growing for...

Lockton Dunning Benefits Appoints Pixley Executive VP, Practice Leader

Feb 12 2010 // Lockton Dunning Benefits appointed Sheri Pixley to the newly created position of executive vice president and practice leader of the Dallas-based health and welfare practice. Pixley has been involved in consulting with...

Schaffler Named President of Lockton Benefits in Chicago

Feb 12 2010 // Thomas J. Schaffler has been named president of the Lockton Companies’ employee benefits practice in Chicago . Schaffler joined Lockton more than 10 years ago as executive vice president and producer and serves on...

Riley Joins Lockton in Chicago

Feb 9 2010 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton Companies has expanded its commercial insurance team in Chicago with the addition of Jason Riley as account manager. Riley will place and service insurance programs for...