Latest Employee Benefits Headlines

All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Ascension Insurance Acquires Nevada’s Kapp Insurance Agency

Apr 19 2010 // Kansas City, Mo.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. has announced the acquisition of the Las Vegas-based Kapp Insurance Agency Inc., doing business as Portal of Nevada. Portal of Nevada is a full service employee benefits...

Lockton: Soft Market Pricing Continues to Benefit Insurance Buyers

Apr 19 2010 // Commercial insurance buyers continue to benefit from lower prices and steady or increasing insurance capacity in property/casualty markets, reports the nation’s largest insurance broker.In its newly published Lockton...

Lockton Chicago Adds Schmidt to Employee Benefits Practice

Apr 13 2010 // Kansas City, Mo.-based insurance broker the Lockton Companies has expanded its Chicago team with the addition of Thomas M. Schmidt as a vice president in the Employee Benefits Practice. Prior to joining Lockton, Schmidt...

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Apr 5 2010 // Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. named David Zona senior vice president of product management in commercial insurance. He will be responsible for setting direction and priorities for various...

How P/C Agents Can Increase Sales through Employee Benefits

Apr 5 2010 // In today’s still challenging economic environment, employees are increasingly looking at employee benefits as a way to strengthen their personal financial safety net. Nearly nine in 10 employees (87 percent) planned...

IMA of Texas Hires Bailey as VP – Benefits, Property and Casualty

Apr 2 2010 // IMA of Texas Inc., a retail insurance broker and risk management firm, announced that Kyle A. Bailey joined the company as a vice president for employee benefits and property and casualty insurance.Bailey has more than 12...

Halsey Joins TD Insurance in Maine

Mar 25 2010 // TD Insurance Inc. in South Portland, Maine, has hired Leah K. Halsey as an account executive in employee benefits.She is responsible for working with employers throughout Northern New England to design, implement and...

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Mar 22 2010 // Iroquois of California based in Sacramento, Calif., added a former insurance consultant, marketing manager and agency owner to its staff. Mike Mullens will serve as regional manager in Northern California, bringing more...

NIP-RCG Forms New Executive Compensation and Benefits Group

Mar 19 2010 // Austin, Texas-based NIP-RCG, a national professional advisory firm offering consulting services to directors and management of many of America’s public corporations, has merged its executive compensation and...

IMA Promotes Sims and Harvath to Vice Presidents

Mar 11 2010 // Denver-based IMA of Colorado Inc., a retail insurance brokerage, announced that Cathy Sims has been promoted to vice president – employee benefits, and Sandy Harvath has been promoted to vice president –...

Strong Attitude Backed by Superior Knowledge

Mar 7 2010 // Top 100 Agency Profile Agency Name: Mesirow Financial Services Inc. Headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Year Founded: 1937 2008 Total Premium Volume: $1.4 billion Property/Casualty: $397.5 million Other than P/C: $1.0 billion %...

Grimm to Head Keystone’s Employee Benefits Division in Pennsylvania

Feb 10 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group has named Erica Grimm as head of it Employee Benefits Division in Pennsylvania. Grimm previously represented Emerson Reid & Co. as broker relationship manager responsible for the Keystone...

The W Group Merges with Cincinnati’s Hylant Group

Jan 26 2010 // Cincinnati-based insurance brokerage, Hylant Group, and the W Group, a privately owned firm offering employee benefit services, announced they have merged. The combined organizations will form one of the largest employee...

How Small Group Partnerships Help Agencies to Grow Employee Benefits Revenue

Jan 24 2010 // In today’s challenging economic environment, property/casualty brokers are struggling to thrive. Toss in management of increasingly complex employee benefits, and many agents now work harder and earn less. With...

Yi Named Senior Client Consultant with Gallagher Benefit Services

Jan 21 2010 // Che Yi has been hired as senior client consultant with Gallagher Benefit Services Inc., in Greenwood Village, Colo. Gallagher Benefit Services is the employee benefits broker and consultant subsidiary of Arthur J....

Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. Names Frost VP, Employee Benefits

Jan 7 2010 // Nancy Lee Frost has joined San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. as vice president, Employee Benefits. She will focus on business development and employee benefits consulting. Frost has more than 20 years of...

2009 P/C Insurance Mergers, Acquisitions Large and Small

Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....

IMA Hires Sustr as an Employee Benefits Account Executive

Dec 9 2009 // Insurance broker IMA Inc. has named Pavlina Sustr an employee benefits account executive specializing in international accounts for IMA of Colorado based in Denver. IMA is part of IMA Financial Group Inc., a financial...

M&A Wrap-Up: Insurance Brokerage Mergers Took a Third Quarter Vacation

Nov 23 2009 // Deal making wasn’t at the top of the list of summer activities this season, but deal vacation was. Third quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continued declining to just 30 announced transactions...

Hoehne Joins Lockton Benefit Group in Minneapolis

Nov 23 2009 // Christine Hoehne has joined Lockton Benefit Group as an account executive in Lockton’s International Benefit Services practice in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to joining Lockton, Hoehne spent eight years as an account...