All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 18 2014 // Independent insurance broker Lockton, has added Account Executive Tom Gabriel and Senior Account Manager Lori Koslowski to the employee benefits team in its Milwaukee office. Gabriel joins Lockton with more than 25 years...
Sep 17 2014 // Privately-held insurance broker Lockton Companies has hired Chris Bartnik as senior vice president. Based in Lockton’s Washington, D.C., office, Bartnik will join Lockton’s Employee Benefits business team that...
Sep 10 2014 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. in East Providence, Rhode Island, recently announced the following promotions.David B. Soforenko has been promoted to sales manager of Starkweather & Shepley...
Sep 10 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Tiffany McClellan regional director of employee benefits.McClellan will focus on growing EPIC’s employee benefits consulting business in Southern California, recruiting...
Sep 5 2014 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., was recently named the winner of the Higginbotham Health & Wellness Award in the large business category at the 2014 Greater Austin Business Awards, the...
Sep 2 2014 // Donegal Group Inc. in Marietta, Pennsylvania, announced on Aug. 29 that its chief executive officer, Donald H. Nikolaus, will be on a temporary medical leave of absence. The board has named Donegal Group’s Executive...
Aug 28 2014 // Pleasanton, Calif.-based One Risk Group LLC has merged Integrated Employee Benefits Solutions into its operating platform. As a result of the merger, IEBS owner Robert Silva has joined ORG as vice president in its employee...
Aug 4 2014 // Lockton has two employee benefits experts to its Chicago operation. Joining Lockton in vice president, producer roles are David Cooke and Mark Haye.Both will be responsible for business development and client strategy at...
Jul 31 2014 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Insurance Point LLC in St. Charles, Ill. and Salt Lake City, Utah. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Insurance Point offers employee benefit...
Jul 21 2014 // Burnham Benefits Insurance Services named Helen Vits a senior account executive in its Irvine, Calif. office. Vits will consult with Burnham clients as they structure their employee benefit packages. Vits’ career in...
Jul 15 2014 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Anne Presson director of benefits innovation. Presson will focus on developing, piloting and implementing new strategies for the employee benefits practice. Prior...
Jul 10 2014 // Cleveland, Ohio-based CBIZ Inc., a provider of employee benefits and insurance advisory services, has appointed Jim O’Connor national practice leader for employee benefits.O’Connor previously served as managing...
Jul 8 2014 // San Jose, Calif.-based Suhr Risk Services has named Wente Tran an employee benefits account executive. Tran will help develop the firm’s portfolio of regional and national employee benefits accounts. Tran spent the...
Jul 2 2014 // Mary Jo JacobsUSI Insurance Services has hired Mary Jo Jacobs as vice president and employee benefits advisor. She is based in USI’s New York metropolitan office. With more than 25 years of experience in human...
Jun 23 2014 // Lockton has expanded its national employee benefits practice with the addition of Scott Behrens, J.D., as assistant vice president, compliance attorney in Lockton Benefit Group’s compliance services practice. He is...
Jun 5 2014 // USI Insurance Services appointed Arthur W. Hall as senior vice president, employee benefits practice leader. Hall was previously the chief executive officer of Emerson Reid, USI’s benefits wholesale operation which...
Jun 3 2014 // Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has added Greg Dobson as a principal in its employee benefits division.Dobson will be based in the company’s San Ramon office. His responsibilities will include the acquisition of...
May 28 2014 // Worldwide Broker Network has announced that Ascoma Group has joined the fully integrated WBN network of independent insurance brokers and employee benefits consultants, “which now counts 96 member firms in 101...
May 27 2014 // Eastern Insurance Group in Massachusetts has added five new executives to its team of more than 300 employees.Gregory Grintchenko has joined Eastern as senior vice president, personal lines sales manager. Grintchenko, of...
May 27 2014 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced that it will acquire a controlling stake of approximately 75 percent in Max Matthiessen, an employee benefits adviser in Sweden, for $205 million.Willis said the acquisition...