All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 8 2021 // Traverse City, Michigan-based national broker High Street Insurance Partners (HSIP) appointed Angela Williams partner and chief brand officer, and Emma Riza principal and chief development officer. Additionally, the...
Sep 8 2021 // Gina Bernardo has been promoted to account manager within the environmental and construction professional (ECP) practice of RT Specialty. She is based in RT ECP’s Hamilton, New Jersey, offices.Since joining the team...
Aug 31 2021 // National specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm Risk Strategies announced it has acquired the assets of employee benefits specialty broker Benevestco, Inc., a Resource Sevens company. Terms of the deal were...
Aug 31 2021 // MJ Insurance, a risk management and employee benefits agency headquartered in Indianapolis, hired Julie Bingham as vice president of Total Rewards Consulting.Bingham brings 20-plus years of experience in compensation...
Aug 16 2021 // Fully funded or level funded traditional health insurance provided by employers is not insurance except for people who buy their own insurance, i.e., the small business owner. To qualify as insurance, the insurance policy...
Jul 22 2021 // Chicago-based HUB International Limited (HUB), a global insurance broker and financial services firm, unveiled its newly created Cannabis Benefits Captive, an exclusive employee benefits group captive for cannabis...
Jul 22 2021 // Specialist insurer Beazley has enhanced its pioneering Virtual Care policy, which provides comprehensive protection against the interconnected risks facing digital health and wellness organizations.First launched in the...
Jul 21 2021 // LocktonLockton has promoted Neil Metzheiser to President of the Atlanta office. Metzheiser specializes in the design and implementation of property and casualty and executive protection liability programs. In his expanded...
Jul 20 2021 // Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers and managing general agencies, appointed Craig Campestre as chief sales officer.Campestre will lead Insurity’s sales strategy and...
Jul 19 2021 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) elected Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas to serve as chair for 2021-2022 during IIAT’s annual business meeting on June 25, 2021.Brown is CEO and Managing...
Jun 30 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Solon, Ohio-based Stellar Benefits Group LLC.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ronald Rafal, Alan Greenberg and their associates will continue to operate from their current...
Jun 21 2021 // Josh Goodman is joining the Kansas Association of Insurance Agents’ (KAIA) team as its new director of Business Development, as of July 12.Goodman had been active in KAIA leadership for many years, including as a...
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Jun 16 2021 // MJ Insurance has hired Jacob Simon as risk transfer specialist and Ryan Miller as employee benefits consultant in the company’s Indianapolis headquarters.Simon comes to MJ from a local industry competitor, bringing a...
Jun 7 2021 // Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon (BSBD) based in Plano, Texas, has hired Matt Brost as executive vice president and Benefits Practice leader.Brost brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the employee benefits...
Jun 2 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Addison, Texas-based LDJ American Online Benefits Group LLC (AOBG).Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2013, AOBG designs, markets and services supplemental...
May 25 2021 // Hub International Northeast, a global insurance brokerage firm, has hired Arthur (Art) J. Howard as employee benefits regional sales officer.In this newly formed role, he will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day...
May 24 2021 // The American Equity Underwriters, Inc. (AEU, an Amwins Company), a provider of workers’ compensation insurance for waterfront employers and program administrator for American Longshore Mutual Association Ltd. (ALMA),...
May 7 2021 // Alera Group, an independent, national insurance and wealth management firm, has acquired the employee benefits division of Lamb Insurance Services, an insurance broker exclusively dedicated to nonprofit and social service...
May 5 2021 // Insurance broker NFP has acquired Indianapolis, Indiana-based employee benefits brokerage, First Person Inc. (First Person).First Person specializes in group benefits with additional capabilities in compensation,...