All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 26 2020 // Valent Group, the risk consulting and insurance division of EBSCO Industries (EBSCO), has hired former attorney and business owner Billy DeBuys as vice president in its Employee Benefits practice.DeBuys comes to Valent...
May 26 2020 // CREST Insurance Group of Colorado has added Lyal Stephen and Dylan Vallino to the fir in the new Ft. Collins location.Both will be producers in the employee benefits division. Lyal was previously a broker at PFS Insurance...
May 22 2020 // LP Insurance Services LLC has named Chad Layne to the southern Nevada employee benefits sales team. Layne has been a benefits insurance broker for more than 25 years. Most recently he was president of Layne Insurance...
May 14 2020 // Insurance Office of America has added Stephen P. Daniel to the Las Vegas, Nev., office as an employee benefits consultant. He was previously an employee benefits consultant with The Mahony Group. Daniel has also been an...
May 12 2020 // Insurance brokerage HUB International Limited (Hub) has acquired the employee benefits division of The Healy Group Inc. (Healy Benefits), based in South Bend, Indiana.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Healy...
Apr 1 2020 // Insurance Office of America has added Paul Carroll and Jeri Ballew to its employee benefits services division in Las Vegas, Nev. Carroll founded The Westek Group, which specializes in the design, implementation, and...
Mar 30 2020 // Insurance agency personnel on average made a little more money in 2019 but they were not as happy as they were in 2018.Nearly all personnel — owners, producers and support staff — enjoyed a slight uptick in...
Mar 26 2020 // Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance, a full-service independent agency, has named Chris Hamilton as its newest partner.Hamilton has extensive experience as an employee benefits and risk management consultant, with previous...
Mar 20 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Fall River Employee Benefits in Denver, Colo.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fall River joins Alera Group through Benefit Commerce Group, an Alera Group company. The Fall River team will...
Mar 18 2020 // Patriot Growth Insurance Service LLC (Patriot), a national insurance agency headquartered in Fort Washington, Penn., has added Omaha, Neb.-based The Olson Group (Olson) to the Patriot platform.The partnership with Olson...
Mar 18 2020 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has added Sean White to its employee benefits team as first vice president.White will provide strategic benefits solutions to clients throughout the Northwest. He will be based in Boise,...
Mar 17 2020 // Lockton has hired John Asencio to its Northeast region as Employee Benefits Practice leader.With more than 25 years of experience in health and welfare benefits consulting, Asencio will oversee operations in New York,...
Mar 9 2020 // An Alaska healthcare plan that has excluded coverage of gender-confirming surgery for transgender employees is discriminatory, a federal judge ruled.The decision came in a 2018 case filed against the state by Jennifer...
Mar 3 2020 // USI Insurance Services, a provider of risk management, employee benefit and retirement plan consulting, has acquired Franklin, Tenn.-based Full Service Insurance Agency, Inc. Founded in 1975, Full Service Insurance is a...
Feb 24 2020 // Every month, the 30 staffers at Chris Boehlke’s public relations firm each get $100 to pay for anything that contributes to their wellness. And not just for typical expenditures like gym memberships or yoga...
Feb 24 2020 // Insurance agency personnel on average made a little more money in 2019 but they were not as happy as they were in 2018.Nearly all personnel — owners, producers and support staff — enjoyed a slight uptick in...
Feb 13 2020 // Employee benefits and risk management firm, BOK Financial Insurance (BOKFI), a division of Tulsa, Okla.-based BOK Financial Corp., is focusing on growth in Oklahoma and Texas as an expansion of its operations that have...
Feb 13 2020 // Lockton Pacific Series has added Vinny Catalano to grow its employee benefits presence in the Sacramento, Calif., region. Catalano is part of the Lockton’s Pacific region, which encompasses eight offices throughout...
Feb 12 2020 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has named Wesley Carson a senior vice president in employee benefits in its Sacramento, Calif., office. Carson will be responsible for employee benefits consulting and the design,...
Feb 11 2020 // Hub International Ltd. (Hub), the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced it has acquired the assets of Azur Consulting Services Inc.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, Azur...