Latest Employee Benefits Headlines

All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Dallas’ RiskPro Global Partners Acquired by Risk Strategies

Dec 11 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired RiskPro Global Partners, a full-service property/casualty and employee benefits firm headquartered in Dallas,...

JP Griffin Group in Arizona Partners with United Benefit Advisors

Dec 7 2018 // United Benefit Advisors has added JP Griffin Group to its family of partners. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based JP Griffin Group is a national employee benefit consulting firm specializing in the design, implementation and...

Alliant Hires Clifton to Employee Benefits Group in New Jersey

Dec 6 2018 // Alliant, a Newport Beach, Calif.-headquartered provider of property and casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, surety and financial products and services, has hired Joe Clifton to its Employee Benefits...

Woodruff Sawyer Names Margolin Northern California Employee Benefits Practice Leader

Dec 5 2018 // Woodruff Sawyer has named Joelle Margolin the Northern California employee benefits practice leader. Margolin has nearly 20 years of experience, and is a former employment lawyer and long-term HR professional. She was...

Texas’ Hotchkiss Insurance Hires 2 in Employee Benefits Division

Nov 30 2018 // Hotchkiss Insurance, a Texas-based full-service independent agency, has expanded its employee benefits division with the addition of Chris Hamilton as the employee benefits practice leader and Natalie Cooper as an account...

Sanchez Joins RHSB as Employee Benefits AVP in Dallas

Nov 28 2018 // Sebastian Sanchez joined RHSB (Roach Howard Smith & Barton) as assistant vice president in the Dallas-based agency’s Employee Benefits division.Sanchez is a benefit consultant with an emphasis in small to...

Alera Group Acquires New Jersey’s CRISP Insurance Advisors, Two Additional Firms

Nov 27 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based, national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired three new firms: CRISP Insurance Advisors, Lively Insurance and Loretz...

CREST Insurance Group in Arizona Names Baena President of Employee Benefits

Nov 19 2018 // CREST Insurance Group LLC of Arizona has named Cristina Baena president of the employee benefits division.Baena will be overseeing 32 employees from the Tucson, Scottsdale, Sierra Vista, Flagstaff, as well as San Diego,...

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Nov 19 2018 // S.S. Nesbitt, a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc., has appointed Senior Vice President L. Dickerson (Dick) Fountain as market executive in Huntsville, Ala.Over the past year, S.S....

Universal Insurance Adds Anderson in Oklahoma

Nov 15 2018 // Carol Anderson has joined Universal Insurance, a subsidiary of First United Bank, as an employee benefits insurance advisor in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.Operating out of First United Bank in Sapulpa, Anderson will be partnering...

Texas Associates Insurors Adds Loaeza, Rodriguez in Employee Benefits Division

Nov 13 2018 // Texas Associates Insurors, based in Austin, has hired two new account managers in its expanding Employee Benefits Division.Esther Loaeza joins the agency with 30 years of experience in the industry. She has overseen the...

Resource Alliance of Georgia Merges with Higginbotham, Enters P&C Market

Nov 13 2018 // Resource Alliance, a human resources and employee benefits firm serving Georgia’s multifamily residential industry, has merged its operations with Higginbotham, an insurance and financial services firm serving...

Risk Strategies Acquires Maryland’s Arkin Youngentob Associates

Oct 31 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Arkin Youngentob Associates, a full-service employee and executive benefits firm headquartered in Bethesda, Md. Terms...

Applied Systems Acquires Benefits Software Firm Dynamis

Oct 18 2018 // Fresh off its announcement of Google becoming a minority investor, insurance agency technology provider Applied Systems announced it has acquired Dynamis Software Corp., a Milwaukee-based provider of employee benefits...

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Oct 15 2018 // COUNTRY Financial, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, has named Jim Jacobs as its next chief executive officer (CEO), effective early next year.He succeeds Kurt Bock, who is retiring Jan. 31, 2019, after serving as...

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Oct 15 2018 // Wholesale insurance services firm, Midlands Management Corp., headquartered in Oklahoma City, appointed Mark Sullivan as leader of its Transportation team. He is based in Dallas.Sullivan joined Midlands in 2010 as an...

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Oct 15 2018 // Frenkel Benefits, an EPIC Company, has hired Nicholas Tunno as a principal in New York.Tunno will report to Phil Remig, Northeast region senior vice president of Operations and Sales. Tunno joins from the New York office...

Insurance Agency M&A Activity Continues at ‘Impressive’ Level: OPTIS

Oct 12 2018 // There were 463 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions during the first three quarters of the year, the second-highest nine-month total.According to OPTIS Partners’ M&A database, the total trails only...

Lockton Adds Rioux to Employee Benefits Team in Atlanta

Oct 10 2018 // Employee benefits consultant Eric Rioux has joined Lockton’s Southeast series as a business adviser. Lockton’s Southeast operation has offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, Naples, Miramar, Miami, Tampa and...

MJ Insurance, HealthJoy Partner on Employee Benefits

Oct 4 2018 // MJ Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, has partnered with HealthJoy, a healthcare guidance platform that helps employees make informed healthcare decisions and provides a variety of cost containment strategies to...