All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2017 // Some see insurtech as the enemy. Others see it as a sign of things to come.Then there’s EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, which is clearly embracing the insurtech craze while soliciting brokers to join them....
Jun 8 2017 // Crystal & Company, a New York-headquartered strategic risk and insurance advisor, has hired Mary Cooke as director for its Employee Benefits Services unit.In her new role, Cooke works out of the firm’s national...
Jun 6 2017 // San Francisco-based CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named John M. Ryan director of employee benefits advisory. Ryan has experience working with middle-market businesses to design employee benefits program...
Jun 2 2017 // Toledo, Ohio-based insurance brokerage, Hylant, has named Jim Stengle as senior vice president, employee benefits business development manager. It is a newly created role within the agency’s Employee Benefits...
May 30 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Hartman Employee Benefits Inc. (Hartman Employee Benefits) from The Hartman Group.Hartman Employee Benefits and its employees will remain at the current Williamsport and State...
May 26 2017 // Smith Brothers, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based insurance broker, has added Chelsea Peruccio as an employee benefits advisor.Her responsibilities include new business development, account management and creating employee...
May 25 2017 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine-headquartered subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp., has promoted Eric Jermyn to president of Cross Employee Benefits. He will be based in Portland, Maine.In this new role, Jermyn’s...
Apr 20 2017 // Platform Partners LLC (Platform), a private company headquartered in Houston, has completed the acquisition of Beneplace LLC (Beneplace), markets and distributes voluntary employee benefits and employee discount programs...
Apr 14 2017 // Accurate genetic testing stands to transform modern medicine by offering effective, personalized treatment. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized marketing of the first direct-to-consumer (DTC)...
Apr 12 2017 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Cameron M. Harris & Company, an insurance brokerage firm in North Carolina. Cameron M. Harris & Company and its employees will remain at the current Charlotte location. Terms of...
Apr 11 2017 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has added to its employee benefits practice and expertise with the acquisition of Mosse & Mosse Associates LLC’s...
Mar 28 2017 // Sajeo Arguelles has joined Alliant Insurance Services’s employee benefits group as vice president in its New Orleans office.Arguelles will work with clients throughout the Southeast to design and deliver benefits...
Mar 27 2017 // Western Growers Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Jason Verhoef to director of employee benefit sales. Verhoef will lead sales efforts to provide affordable healthcare insurance options for agribusinesses throughout...
Mar 14 2017 // Hub California has named John Martin Ryan employee benefits market leader for Northern California. Ryan is responsible for managing and overseeing Northern California employee benefit producers, recruiting employee...
Mar 13 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Burkhardt Consulting LLC.Burkhardt joins Alliant’s employee benefits group, with the firm continuing to service clients from its Coeur...
Mar 13 2017 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, has named Brian Boone president of its Orlando, Fla., location, effective April 10.From 2009 to 2013, Boone held the role of employee...
Mar 8 2017 // SWBC Employee Benefits Consulting Group (EBCG), based in San Antonio, Texas, has promoted Andrew Grove to senior vice president of Sales & Market Development and Gary Birdwell to senior vice president of Service &...
Mar 8 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Carolina First Associates LLC, an employee benefits insurance advisor located in Hickory, N.C.This acquisition extends USI’s presence as a middle market insurance brokerage...
Mar 6 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has added Richard Duhe to the firm’s Southeast Employee Benefits Consulting Practice in Atlanta as a benefits consultant and director of EPIC MobileEZ.Duhe has focused for 30...
Mar 6 2017 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Pa.-based independent broker, has hired Jeremy Taggart as a financial analyst in the employee benefits department.In his new role, Taggart will use his three years of industry...