Latest Employee Benefits Headlines

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

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants Hires Check in Pennsylvania

Jul 3 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property and casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has hired John Check as a senior consultant in the firm’s Employee Benefits Consulting...

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Jul 2 2018 // H.W. Kaufman Group, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, added Christine M. Tricoli to its executive team as vice president, Human Resources.Based in the company’s Michigan headquarters, Tricoli assumes...

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Jul 2 2018 // Cassie Brown has been appointed Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation at the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation.She succeeds Ryan Brannan, who left the division on May 1....

Alliant Employee Benefits Hires Phares in Virginia

Jun 22 2018 // Alliant Employee Benefits has hired Beth Phares as senior vice president.The Richmond, Va.-area consultant will work with clients throughout the Eastern region to deliver strategic employee benefits solutions that address...

Alliant Employee Benefits Hires Kristofak in Virginia

Jun 21 2018 // Alliant Employee Benefits has hired Bob Kristofak.Kristofak is from the Richmond, Va.-area and will serve as Alliant Employee Benefits’ new senior vice president, working with a portfolio of clients to provide...

Texas’ RHSB Adds 3 to Employee Benefits Practice

Jun 11 2018 // North Texas-based insurance broker, RHSB, has expanded its Employee Benefits practice with the addition of three experienced professionals: Dirk Hansen, Shannon Hansen and Cindy Gonzales.Dirk Hansen joins as senior vice...

Alera Group Appoints Capilla Director of Compliance, Employee Benefits

Jun 5 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Illinois-based employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, appointed Danielle Capilla JD, as director of Compliance, Employee Benefits.Capilla will focus on...

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Jun 4 2018 // Anderson & Murison Inc. has named Mitchell Jawitz executive vice president.Jawitz will be located in the Pasadena, Calif., office and will focus on national business development with independent agents and brokers. He...

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May 21 2018 // Woodruff Sawyer has expanded its New England office’s leadership structure due to growth it has seen in the past two years.As part of this initiative, it has positioned its three leaders in roles that designed to...

Risk Strategies Acquires Massachusetts’ Costello Benefits Group

May 17 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Costello Benefits Group (CBG Benefits Inc.), a full-service employee benefits brokerage firm headquartered in Woburn,...

Alera Acquires Courtney Group in Chicago

May 10 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Illinois, has acquired Courtney Group, located in Highland Park, Illinois.Courtney Group provides...

Alera Group Acquires Oklahoma’s Benefit Plan Strategies

May 9 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Illinois, has acquired Benefit Plan Strategies (BPS), headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Alera...

Alliant Employee Benefits Hires Pennsylvania’s Weber as Vice President

May 3 2018 // Alliant Employee Benefits has hired Pittsburgh, Penn.-based benefits consultant Mark Weber as vice president.In this role, Weber will bring his quantitative analysis and strategic problem solving skills to Alliant’s...

AssuredPartners Acquires The Elan Group of Florida

Apr 23 2018 // AssuredPartners, Inc. has acquired The Elan Group of Tampa, Fla., an employee benefits firm specializing in the design, enrollment and service of employee benefits plans. The company’s staff of 21 will remain under...

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Apr 2 2018 // Independent insurance broker ONI Risk Partners (ONI) has hired Mike Loveless as a commercial risk adviser in ONI’s Fort Wayne, Indiana, office.Loveless most recently worked for JPMorgan Chase as a branch manager. He...

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Mar 19 2018 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Robert Gilbert of Markel West Insurance Services as the new chair of the SLA Board of Directors.Gilbert’s election was finalized after the SLA...

Benefits of Offering Legal Insurance

Mar 19 2018 // Are standard voluntary benefit offerings enough to keep employees (and, by extension, employers) satisfied? A Society for Human Resource Management study found that while three-quarters of HR professionals believe...

Alliant Hires Former New Jersey State Senator Beck

Mar 13 2018 // Alliant has added former New Jersey State Senator Jennifer Beck to its regional brokerage team.As vice president, Beck will provide insurance and risk management services to organizations across the Garden State. Beck...

ONI Risk Partners Adds Adams as Benefits Consultant in Indianapolis

Mar 8 2018 // ONI Risk Partners, based in Indianapolis, has hired Noah Adams as an employee benefits consultant.Adams advises employee benefits clients on issues relating to wellness, healthcare reform, controlling costs, and employee...

Alera Group Acquires Houston’s IMG Benefits

Mar 7 2018 // Illinois-based Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired IMG Benefits Group LLC in Houston, Texas.Terms of the transactions were not announced....