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