Latest Employee Benefits Headlines

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

Lockton Benefit Group Adds Kirschbaum in St. Louis

Mar 6 2018 // Lockton Benefit Group (LBG) has added Jay M. Kirschbaum to its Compliance Services team. He is based in St. Louis, Missouri.Kirschbaum has more than 30 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in employee...

MJ Insurance Names Evans Employee Benefits Consultant in Arizona

Mar 5 2018 // MJ Insurance has named Sean Evans an employee benefits consultant in its Phoenix, Ariz. office. Evans previously was a franchise owner and operator of Jimmy Johns – Cali Subs LLC in Santa Barbara, Calif. Indianapolis,...

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Mar 5 2018 // Integro Insurance Brokers has named Jacquelyn Neal as a principal in the marine practice. Neal is based in the San Francisco, Calif., office.She will manage a book of existing marine clients and develop new cargo and...

NFP Focusing on Organic Growth in Central Texas Expansion

Mar 5 2018 // Employee benefits and property/casualty insurance broker and consultant NFP traditionally has grown through acquisitions but as the global organization targets Central Texas for expansion it plans to use another strategy...

Panettiere Appointed SVP of Lockton Employee Benefits in Atlanta

Feb 21 2018 // Chris Panettiere has been appointed as Lockton’s new senior vice president of Employee Benefits. He will be based out of the company’s Atlanta office. Prior to joining Lockton, a privately held, independent...

Insurance Journal’s Agency Salary Survey

Feb 19 2018 // Total compensation for insurance agency management, owners, principals and support staff were up in 2017, while total comp for producers declined just slightly over the year before.That’s according to the 2018 Agency...

HUB International Names Greene Vice President of Employee Benefits in California

Feb 8 2018 // HUB International of California has named Lynn Greene vice president of the employee benefits practice. Greene’s primary role will be the design, placement, and maintenance of healthcare programs and human-resource...

Alera Group Acquires Three East Region Firms

Feb 8 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired three East region firms, effective February 1, 2018.Aisling Partners Insurance...

Alera Group Acquires Davidson Benefits Planning in Oregon

Feb 7 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Davidson Benefits Planning, headquartered in Tigard, Ore.Alera made the purchase along with the purchase of three other firms effective Feb. 1, bringing the total number of acquisitions since...

Marsh & McLennan West Names New Principals in California and Alaska

Feb 5 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Insurance Agency has promoted eight executives to principals of the firm.In San Diego, the new Principals are Donna DeBolt, Wayne Pages, Greg Pendergast, Erin Quigley, Jeff Simpson, Ryan Stover, and...

The Hartford Adds Employee Benefits, E&S Options to Small Business Online Quote System

Feb 5 2018 // The Hartford has enhanced ICON, its online quoting system for agents and brokers, to include access to quote employee benefits as well as excess and surplus (E&S) coverage for their small business customers.Employee...

2017 Yields Highest Recorded Number of Announced Deals: MarshBerry

Feb 5 2018 // The number of announced U.S. insurance broker deals in 2017 was the highest in recorded history, at 536. This year also had the highest number of deals closed in the fourth quarter since 2012 (when the capital gain tax...

Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS

Feb 5 2018 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year broke all records in 2017, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 604 deals in the United States and Canada in 2017, a 31...

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Feb 5 2018 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has added Elian Boukhalil as an account manager.Boukhalil will work within CAL’s affluent families division. She was previously an intern with Publiscreen Online. Before that she...

Employee Benefit Strategies Group Joins Holmes Murphy

Feb 1 2018 // Independent insurance brokerage Holmes Murphy announced it has added Employee Benefit Strategies Group (EBSG) to its team of benefits experts. The EBSG team members joining Holmes Murphy have a combined experience of more...

Workplace Wellness Programs Are an Exercise in Futility, Latest Research Finds

Jan 26 2018 // Workplace wellness programs have two main goals: improve employees’ health and lower their employers’ health-care costs. They’re not very good at either, new research finds.For the study, 3,300 employees...

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Jan 22 2018 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based Leavitt Group Insurance Advisors has named Mike Scott a senior risk advisor and director of program business.Scott will focus on middle markets, large accounts, and hard-to-place specialty risks....

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Jan 22 2018 // Madison, Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance named Todd Fancher as its first digital transformation officer.Fancher will oversee American Family group’s strategic investment in technology and practices that...

New York State Employers Must Comply With New Paid Family Leave Law

Jan 22 2018 // By Bennett PineNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a phased-in system of paid family leave that became effective on Jan. 1, 2018, for New York employers. On the state level, New York becomes the fifth state...

Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS

Jan 18 2018 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year broke all records in 2017, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 604 deals in the United States and Canada in 2017, a 31...