All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Oct 1 2018 // California grocery outlet, PAQ Inc., dba Rancho San Miguel Market, violated federal law when it fired a deli clerk after she requested an accommodation for a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Sep 26 2018 // Scott Schoenvogel has been tapped as president of SimplePay Health, a subsidiary of healthcare and wellness company ACAP Health. He is based in Dallas.The company describes SimplePay Health as a new model for healthcare...
Sep 25 2018 // Alliant has hired Arlene Potts as vice president within its Employee Benefits Group. Potts is based in Suffolk, Va., and will work with a portfolio of clients to provide strategic employee benefits services that aim to...
Sep 25 2018 // The Treasury Department announced that as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, eligible employers who provide paid family and medical leave to their employees during tax years 2018 and 2019 may qualify for a new...
Sep 21 2018 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners), an insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has partnered with Montoya & Associates of Jacksonville, Fla. The partnership finalized on...
Sep 20 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services has added Brady Ayala as senior vice president in its Employee Benefits Group in Oklahoma City.Ayala will service a growing portfolio of regional clients, deploying a full range of benefits...
Sep 20 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired Champion Benefits of Atlanta. The company provides integrated, strategic benefit plans for clients...
Sep 13 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired Burnham Benefit Advisors and VantagePoint Benefit Strategies.Burnham Benefit Advisors,...
Aug 28 2018 // As MyCrypto mulled what benefits to offer employees, the new blockchain startup asked them what they wanted. “Surprisingly, we found that the traditional health benefits and 401(k) benefits—they had no interest in...
Aug 15 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired Barnes Insurance & Financial Services (BIAFS) of Florida. BIAFS is a benefits agency with two...
Aug 8 2018 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced it has acquired Benefit Broker Services Inc.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Located in Wallaceburg, Ontario, Benefit Broker provides...
Aug 6 2018 // Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Texas-based The Ward Agency (Ward Agency).Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Headquartered in Longview, Texas with an office in Tyler, Texas, Ward Agency...
Aug 6 2018 // GEICO’s Board of Directors has promoted Rick Hoagland to senior vice president.Hoagland first joined GEICO in 1994 as a telephone claims representative in Fredericksburg, Md. He advanced through several positions and...