All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2012 // San Jose, Calif.-based Thoits Insurance Services named Michael Solomon vice president in the benefits division. He will be responsible for client growth, relationship development and the servicing of his current...
Jun 26 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms and Associates Insurance Brokers named Jack Herbert vice president of employee benefits in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Herbert will focus on companies with 51 to 2,000 employees. He...
Jun 25 2012 // Rutherfoord, a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA) company, appointed Guy Morrison, a 20-year veteran of the employee benefits industry, as executive vice president of employee benefits.Guy MorrisonIn this newly created...
Jun 22 2012 // R&R Insurance Services Inc. in Waukesha, Wis., has appointed David Lancaster vice president of Employee Benefits.Lancaster has more than 25 years of insurance industry experience in managing insurance operations,...
Jun 21 2012 // Concord, Calif.-based Jenkins Insurance Group named Sue Wakamoto as a consultant in its employee benefits department. Wakamoto’s experience includes employee benefits, wellness, defined contribution plans, and...
Jun 12 2012 // Toledo, Ohio-based privately owned insurance brokerage firm, Hylant Group, has acquired AGIS, an independent, full-service employee benefits agency with offices in Birmingham, Mich., and Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla.The...
Jun 8 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of broker Marsh Inc., acquired Progressive Benefit Solutions (PBS), a $5 million revenue employee benefits agency based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Terms of the...
Jun 4 2012 // BenefitSpecialists, Higginbotham Insurance GroupHigginbotham Insurance Group and BenefitSpecialists announced the merger of their operations in Houston. BenefitSpecialists, an employee benefits broker in Houston, will...
Jun 1 2012 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Chris Poveromo branch manager and senior vice president of property/casualty.Additionally, the firm named Mark Ulrich senior Vice president of...
May 30 2012 // IMA Inc. announced that Leisha Cadwallader joined IMA as vice president of employee benefits in its Dallas office.Cadwallader is charged with growing IMA’s employee benefits presence in the Dallas market. As a former...
May 30 2012 // Willis Risk Services (Ireland) Limited confirmed its commitment to further developing its domestic employee benefits business by acquiring Attain Consulting and its sister company Trustee Principles. Terms of the deal were...
May 23 2012 // San Jose, Calif.-based Thoits Insurance Service Inc. added Derek Culligan as vice president of employee benefits.In his new role he is responsible for new business production, client retention and relationship management....
May 10 2012 // Higginbotham Insurance Group and BenefitSpecialists announced the merger of their operations in Houston. BenefitSpecialists, an employee benefits broker in Houston, will align capabilities with Higginbotham to offer a...
May 1 2012 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that Linda M. Hunter has joined the firm as vice president, Sacramento Employee Benefits practice leader. Hunter will focus on client relationship management and business...
Apr 19 2012 // USI Insurance Services, an insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., acquired certain assets of BBVA Compass Insurance Agency, a unit of BBVA Compass, a financial holding company headquartered in...
Apr 18 2012 // Those interested in new or better positions in insurance might want to grab their suntan lotion and head to the Southeast. They might also want to brush up on their Spanish.The unemployment rate remains higher in key...
Mar 20 2012 // Del Mar, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services, L.P. an affiliate of Wood, Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers, named Elizabeth Long as an employee benefits consultant. Long started her career in the...
Mar 19 2012 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced the acquisition of BenefitLink Resource Group, Inc., in Calgary, Canada.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The bulletin said BenefitLink was established in 2001, as an...
Mar 16 2012 // William Gallagher Associates, a Boston-based broker and risk management services provider, hired David Bachrach as senior vice president in the employee benefits practice in the Princeton, N.J., office. David...
Mar 15 2012 // Insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Human Resource Management Systems LLC in Naperville, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1997, Human Resource Management Systems...