All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 9 2012 // The city misspent around $500,000 on employee benefits during a span of eight years, according to a report released by the New Orleans Inspector General.The inspector general’s office evaluated the city’s...
Feb 8 2012 // San Jose, Calif.-based Thoits Insurance Service Inc. has named Bernie Tillotson senior vice president of employee benefits. Tillotson brings more than three decades of benefits and human resources expertise to his new...
Feb 6 2012 // Centennial, Colo.-based Colorado Casualty has named Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company, which operates in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.Bills...
Feb 6 2012 // Web search giant Google Inc. has been granted tentative approval from the Department of Labor to form a captive insurance company in Hawaii to cover employee benefits for thousands of the Mountain View, Calif.-based web...
Feb 2 2012 // MJ Insurance, a property/casualty and employee benefits agency headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., has hired Kimberly Balling as a client communication specialist and Jessica Babcock as a sales and marketing assistant to...
Jan 24 2012 // Two American International Group units — Chartis U.S. Accident and Health, and American General Life Companies — are planning to merge their group benefits businesses into a single, unified organization. The...
Jan 12 2012 // The Buckner Co. has hired Russell Trujillo in their employee benefits department. Trujillo will work with employers to help them find benefits packages for their employees. The Buckner Co. has placed much emphasis on...
Jan 11 2012 // Digital Insurance, an employee benefits agency in Atlanta, acquired Strategic Employee Benefits Services (SEBS) of Virginia.SEBS, which has offices in Richmond, Charlottesville and Roanoke, will now operate under the...
Jan 9 2012 // Verne Cadwell has been named vice president of the crop hail division at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. located in Grinnell, Iowa.Cadwell’s promotion follows a 12-year career at Grinnell Mutual, where he has served...
Dec 29 2011 // New England Employee Benefits Council (NEEBC) held its annual conference earlier this month, giving its Best Benefits Practices awards to six winners.The winners shared their success stories at the NEEBC conference in...
Dec 14 2011 // Indiana-based Old National Insurance (ONI) has finalized a deal to acquire the employee benefits book of business from Gettings Reed Financial, headquartered in Lafayette, Ind.The acquisition includes group medical, group...
Dec 13 2011 // USI Insurance Services, an insurance brokerage and financial service firm in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., has completed its acquisition of Bluff Head Enterprises in Rhode Island.Bluff Head Enterprises is a Wakefield, Rhode...
Dec 8 2011 // Ohio-based Hylant Group has tapped wellness professional Jerid Baxter to lead its growing health and wellness practice. Baxter will be responsible for designing and implementing programming and building the tools and...
Dec 5 2011 // Holly Foxen Wells has been promoted to marketing and public relations manager of San Diego, Calif.-based Atlas General Insurance Services.She will lead the marketing team to enhance Atlas’ brand strategy and customer...
Dec 1 2011 // Bill Thomas has partnered with Ben Thomas and Barry Rabune of Costa Mesa, Calif.-based of RSI Insurance Brokers, a property and casualty insurance company that focuses on the transportation industry.RSI recently expanded,...
Nov 29 2011 // USI Insurance Services, an insurance brokerage and financial service firm in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., completed the acquisition of Barros International. Barros is a Reston, Va.-based employee benefits brokerage firm...
Nov 17 2011 // Marsh & McLennan Agency, a New York-based subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., acquired Seitlin Insurance, one of the largest insurance brokers in South Florida. Terms of the transaction were not...
Nov 15 2011 // Suhr Risk Services (SRS), an independent retail employee benefits and property/casualty insurance brokerage firm in San Jose, Calif., has hired Melissa Ceja as team leader and account executive of the employee benefits...
Nov 14 2011 // Privately-held independent insurance agency, MJ Insurance, has added four employees to its Indiana operations.Recent additions include Lauran Reynolds as bond representative, Heather Brenan as commercial lines assistant,...
Nov 4 2011 // Property/casualty insurance rates will continue to be flat to with some slight increases or decreases in most major and specialty lines of insurance.Some exceptions to that trend include catastrophe-exposed property...