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USI Insurance Services Acquires Benefit Controls of the Carolinas

Sep 25 2015 // USI Insurance Services has acquired the employee benefits business of Benefit Controls of the Carolinas, Inc. This is the first acquisition in North Carolina for USI. An employee benefits consulting firm, Benefit Controls...

USI Insurance Services Launches Builder’s Risk Program

Apr 9 2015 // USI Insurance Services has launched a new builder’s risk program that provides broader coverage for all project types and sizes, with capacity for frame and renovation projects, including catastrophic perils. This is...

USI Insurance Services Launches Terrorism Insurance Underwritten by Lloyd’s

Dec 24 2014 // USI Insurance Services has launched a new terrorism insurance product to address the expiring Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (TRIPRA), which ends Dec. 31. Unlike TRIPRA however, USI’s Terrorism...

USI Insurance Services Acquires Wallace/Scott in Alaska

Oct 14 2014 // Valhalla, N.Y.-based USI Insurance Services announced the closing on the acquisition of Wallace Insurance Inc./Scott Insurance Services headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. The employee benefits practice and all of its...

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...

USI Insurance Services Appoints President of West Orange, N.J., Office

May 21 2014 // USI Insurance Services has appointed Michael D. Lezynski as president of USI’s West Orange, New Jersey, office.Michael D. LezynskiAs president, Lezynski is responsible for all operations within the West Orange...

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,...

USI Insurance Services Names Daigle President of Louisiana Operations

Mar 16 2014 // USI Insurance Services (USI) announced that Edward J. Daigle has been promoted to president of USI’s Louisiana practice. Daigle will be responsible for growing USI’s middle market brokerage practice in...

USI Insurance Services Acquires Oscar & Associates in N.J.

Jan 17 2014 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of Oscar & Associates, an employee benefit wholesale broker in West Caldwell, N.J. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oscar & Associates...

USI Insurance Services Acquires Ohio’s Quintessential Advisors

Jan 14 2014 // Insurance broker, USI Insurance Services (USI), has acquired Quintessential Advisors Ltd. (Quintessential) headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Quintessential Advisors was founded in...

USI Insurance Acquires Alabama’s Molton, Allen & Williams

Dec 23 2013 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Molton, Allen & Williams (MAW), headquartered in Birmingham, Ala. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. USI said it will combine MAW with its existing Birmingham office under...

USI Insurance Acquires Van Gilder in Colorado

Dec 3 2013 // Valhalla, N.Y.-based USI Insurance Services has entered into an agreement to acquire Van Gilder Insurance Corp. in Denver, Colo. This deal is expected to close on Dec. 10. Terms were not disclosed. Van Gilder is a...

USI Insurance Relocates Corporate Headquarters to Valhalla, N.Y.

Nov 21 2013 // USI Insurance Services recently moved its corporate headquarters from Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. to nearby Valhalla, N.Y. USI said its corporate headquarters moved to the new location, approximately 10 miles away from the...

USI Insurance Appoints Senior VP in New York Metro Office

Nov 19 2013 // USI Insurance Services appointed Raymond Bascio as senior vice president. He is based in USI’s New York metropolitan office. Bascio brings nearly 30 years of experience in employee benefits, sales, marketing and...

USI Insurance Appoints Senior Vice President in New York Metro Office

Oct 21 2013 // USI Insurance Services has appointed Brian Golick as senior vice president. He is based in USI’s New York metropolitan office. Golick brings 25 years experience in employee benefits, sales, insurance account...

USI Insurance Acquires Richard J. Princinsky & Associates in Maryland

Oct 8 2013 // USI Insurance Services announced the closing of the acquisition of Richard J. Princinsky & Associates Inc., located in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1976, Richard J....

USI Insurance Services Acquires Cohen-Seltzer Agency in Pennsylvania

Jul 17 2013 // USI Insurance Services said it completed its acquisition of Cohen-Seltzer Inc., in Fort Washington, Penn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. A third generation family-owned insurance agency formed in 1926,...

USI Insurance Services VP Moves to Aon in Rhode Island

Feb 11 2013 // Aon plc, a global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and HR consulting and outsourcing services, recently announced the addition of Mark Sweeney as vice president in the Providence, R.I....

USI Insurance Services Acquires 2 St. Louis, Missouri, Brokerages

Jan 16 2013 // Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Saint Louis, Mo.-based brokerages Welsch Flatness and Lutz Inc. (WFL) and Construction Insurance Partners (CIP). By combining the existing USI office in Saint Louis with WFL and CIP,...

USI Insurance Services Buys Illinois-Based Pediatrics Insurance Consultants

Jan 10 2013 // USI Insurance Services LLC has acquired Pediatrics Insurance Consultants (PIC), based in Chicago, Ill. PIC is the insurance member benefits broker, marketer and administrator for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)....