All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 13 2005 // Jason T. Andrew has been promoted to vice president, Employee Benefits Division for Mountain View, Calif.-based Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates. Andrew has over five years of experience in the independent financial...
May 11 2005 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that Suriano-Williams’ benefits practice has joined its Oregon Benefits group. Helen “Willy” Suriano-Williams will serve as a senior benefits consultant. In this role,...
May 2 2005 // Seattle-based Kibble & Prentice, a leader in the Northwest insurance and financial services industry since 1972, has hired industry veteran Dave Ross as vice president of the Employee Benefits and Private Client...
Apr 14 2005 // Lubbock, Texas-based The Parker Group, a health care and benefits management holding company, announced it has closed on the acquisition of Gallagher Benefit Administrators Inc., a national third-party employee benefits...
Apr 13 2005 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P (MHBT), one of the largest privately-owned, independent insurance brokerages in the nation, announced the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas.The new MHBT location will immediately be...
Mar 24 2005 // Wisconsin-based Wausau Signature Agency has increased its focus on employee benefits by forming a group benefits division in the Upper Midwest states. “As part of our commitment to meet all of the insurance needs of...
Feb 25 2005 // The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, an association for commercial insurance and employee benefits intermediaries in the United States and abroad, recently appointed Bill Henry to its Board of Directors. Henry...
Feb 23 2005 // Willis Group Holdings has acquired CGI Consulting Inc., an employee benefits firm selling to mid-size companies predominantly in the mid-Atlantic and northeast region of the United States.CGI has annual revenues of...
Feb 21 2005 // Providing rewards programs that attract, motivate and help retain employees has been ranked among the top five priorities for employers in 2005, according to a new survey conducted by Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Human...
Feb 15 2005 // Ohio-based Insurance First Agency, a full-service independent insurance agency and member of the Title First Family of Companies, announced the launch of its Employee Benefits Services group.The company’s newest...
Feb 14 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc., with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Fla. has announced the acquisition of retail insurance agency Emerald Benefits Inc. of Weston, Fla.Emerald Benefits, with annualized revenues of approximately...
Feb 7 2005 // In the early 1960s, life in the United States was lived at a slower pace. Transportation and communication required more time (and patience) and employees were more inclined to trust employers on issues relating to...
Feb 3 2005 // Assurex Global — the world’s largest privately held risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group – announced that it has expanded its worldwide presence with the addition of international...
Jan 26 2005 // Looking to capitalize on their industry experience, Vertafore Inc. announced the official launch of Vertafore Benefits, a new division that will provide software and automation services to employee benefits agencies and...
Jan 26 2005 // Louisville, Ky.-based Neace Lukens Insurance has acquired Integrity Insurance Agency, a Lexington, Ky.-based agency that specializes in employee benefits. The acquisition is effective immediately and according to Douglas...
Jan 24 2005 // Analysis from Three Perspectives — Consumer, Employer, and BrokerOver the past couple of years, the most used phrase in the employee benefits industry has been Consumer Driven Healthcare. Though its broadest...
Jan 13 2005 // Denver-based Moody Insurance Agency, which specializes in bonding services for contractors, risk management, and insurance, has promoted Steve Minnick to vice president of the agency’s Employee Benefits...
Jan 12 2005 // New York-based brokerage behemoth Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has announced three senior appointments in its Minneapolis office.Dan Caffrey has joined as a senior vice president and both Stephanie Candon and Henry Van...
Jan 3 2005 // Bond was denied Dec. 16 for convicted racketeer, fraudster and Chicago insurance broker Michael Segal, who during the court hearing pulled opened his orange prison jumpsuit to show a federal judge a rash he apparently...
Dec 10 2004 // A federal judge has scheduled a hearing over whether to allow convicted insurance mogul Michael Segal to leave a Chicago jail to seek medical treatment.Lawyers for Segal, 62, said in court Wednesday that their client may...