All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has named Eric Leventhal a vice president in its employee benefits consulting practice. Leventhal will be based in San Francisco and report to John Connell, president of employee...
May 19 2016 // Insurance broker Lockton announced Thursday that it has acquired Outland Consultants, a global employee benefits consultancy in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Since 1998, Outland...
May 13 2016 // Lowe’s Cos. has reached an $8.6 million settlement of a U.S. agency lawsuit accusing the nation’s second-largest home improvement retailer of illegally firing workers who went on medical leave for a long...
May 12 2016 // Eastern Insurance Group LLC, a Natick, Massachusetts-based independent agency, announced that it has acquired BBS Employee Benefits in Newton, Massachusetts. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 2002, BBS...
May 11 2016 // Insurance agency mergers and acquisitions hit an all-time high for the first quarter of a year, with 109 reported transactions in the first three months of 2016. The pace slightly outstripped 107 deals reported in the...
May 10 2016 // Leavitt Group in Utah has named Kelly Pareti director of voluntary benefits enrollment. Pareti will be working with employee benefits agencies to provide enrollment and voluntary benefits solutions to clients. Pareti...
Apr 29 2016 // Lockton Benefit Group, based in Kanas City, Mo., has added Dr. Ronald S. Leopold to its national Lockton Health Risk Solutions practice.As leader of the practice, Dr. Leopold will combine his clinical knowledge with...
Apr 26 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added Victoria McKinney as a team leader and employee benefits consultant and Robin Neer as an account executive.Both will be based in EPIC’s Gold River office in the...
Apr 19 2016 // McDermott Costa Insurance, Mello Insurance Services and Myers‐Stevens Mello & Co. have merged.The firms will conduct business out of the McDermott Costa office in San Leandro. Mello Insurance is based in Fremont and...
Apr 14 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher& Co. has acquired Insurance Plans Agency Inc. in South Barrington, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 1983, Insurance Plans Agency Inc. (IPA) is a retail insurance...
Apr 8 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has named Penny Miller vice president in the firm’s employee benefits consulting team. She will be based in San Francisco and report to David Wiesner, regional director of...
Apr 7 2016 // Illinois-based insurance brokerage, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., has acquired Capitol Benefits Group in Oklahoma City. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1999, Capitol Benefits Group (Capitol) is an...
Apr 4 2016 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, announced Monday that it has acquired Corporate Consulting Services Ltd., a New York City-based insurance brokerage and human resource...
Mar 30 2016 // While all middle market businesses across the world have concerns about cyber risk, few of these firms view it as their biggest exposure, according to a global survey* of 68 leading independent insurance brokers, which...
Mar 23 2016 // Northwest Bank, based in Warren, Pennsylvania, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement, effective April 1, to acquire Best Insurance Agency Inc., an employee benefits and property/casualty insurance agency in...
Mar 15 2016 // Insurance broker Lockton announced that Molly Riley and Mary McMartin have joined its Omaha, Neb., office. Riley has joined as an employee benefits producer and McMartin has joined as an employee benefits account...
Feb 23 2016 // Lockton Pacific has named Suzy R. Betterly as a vice president, and consultant in in San Diego, Calif.She will be responsible for delivering solutions to clients’ benefits programs. Betterly has more than 17 years of...
Feb 22 2016 // Merger and acquisition activity for 2015 set a new record with 456 deals, sailing past the previous high-water mark of 325 deals set in 2012, according to recent data. The fourth quarter closed with 104 announced...
Feb 18 2016 // Specialty insurance broker Alliant Insurance Services has hired Craig Harper as first vice president within its Employee Benefits Group. He will be based in Alliant’s King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, office. In his...
Feb 16 2016 // Indianapolis-based MJ Insurance has added Kirsten Bell as an employee benefits communications specialist, a newly created position.Bell will be responsible for expanding the Benefits Consulting communication offering and...