Latest Employee Benefits Headlines

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

USI Insurance Services Acquires Northwest Insurance Service’s Insurance Business

May 3 2021 // USI Insurance Services (USI), a provider of risk management, employee benefit and retirement plan consulting, has completed its acquisition of the insurance business offered through Northwest Insurance Services from...

The Hilb Group Acquires Clarus Benefits Group in Texas

Apr 22 2021 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Houston, Texas-based Clarus Benefits Group LLC (CBG).The transaction became effective on April 1, 2021, and represents THG’s expansion into Texas. CBG is an employee benefits and...

Insurance Agency Staffs Remain Positive Even Though Pay Is Down

Apr 22 2021 // Insurance agency personnel on average made a little less money in 2020 but they were more satisfied with their compensation in what was a stressful year.Satisfaction with compensation rose across the board, according to...

People Moves: Great American Promotes Markey; MJ Insurance Adds Gross

Apr 12 2021 // Great American Insurance Group in Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted Timothy (Tim) E. Markey to divisional vice president within its Fidelity/Crime Division.Markey joined Great American in 2017 as a divisional assistant vice...

Amwins Forms National Employee Benefits General Agency

Apr 12 2021 // Three general agencies specializing in employee benefits – LISI, BrokerNet USA and Amwins Group Benefits Small Business – have come together to form Amwins Connect Insurance Services, LLC, a national general agency.As...

The Hilb Group Acquires Indiana’s STAR Insurance

Apr 9 2021 // Hilb Group LLC (THG), a property/casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and advisory firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, has acquired Indiana-based Star Insurance Agency. Star Insurance Agency is a...

People Moves: Cole from XS Brokers to Rockwood; Westchester’s Roberts, Fred C. Church’s Sanderson Promoted

Mar 30 2021 // Rockwood Programs Inc., a full-service managing general agency, has appointed Carol Cole to chief marketing officer.In this role, Cole is responsible for marketing employment practices liability, insurance agents errors...

South Central People Moves: Texas’ BSBD Group Adds Williamson as VP

Mar 26 2021 // Dallas-based independent retail brokerage firm, Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett & Dixon (BSBD Group). has hired Lad Williamson as vice president of Employee Benefits. Williamson will help oversee the employee benefits...

Alera Group Acquires E3 Outsource of Florida, Launches National Employee Benefits Helpline

Mar 25 2021 // Alera Group, an employee benefits, financial services and risk management company, has acquired E3 Outsource, an employee benefits management and technology firm. The acquisition became effective March 1, 2021. The E3...

Patriot Enters Ohio with Addition of Strategic Benefits of Cincinnati

Mar 5 2021 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services LLC (Patriot) has added Strategic Benefits of Cincinnati (SBC) to the Patriot platform.SBC is a full-service employee benefits insurance agency based in Loveland, Ohio. Led by Partners...

Alliant Acquires Louisiana’s Group Insurance Inc.

Mar 4 2021 // Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Group Insurance Incorporated (GII), a full-service employee benefits provider and general agency based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.The acquisition of GII adds a diverse portfolio of...

GCG Financial Promotes DeMello, Levitz in Illinois

Mar 2 2021 // Deerfield, Illinois-based GCG Financial, a full-service financial services firm and part of the Alera Group, has promoted David Levitz to managing partner and Carla DeMello to president, Employee Benefits.Levitz, who...

Conner Strong & Buckelew Names Jampana as Senior VP, Chief Information Officer

Feb 26 2021 // Conner Strong & Buckelew, an insurance, risk management and employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm, has named 25-year technology leader Anil Jampana as its senior vice president and chief information...

EPIC Realigns Leadership With O’Neil as President; Creates New Regional Lineup

Feb 24 2021 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants announced organizational and restructuring changes across the company.Tom O’Neil has been named president of EPIC and will work directly with CEO Steve Denton to grow the...

Agency Employee Satisfaction Rises Despite Pay Decreases

Feb 22 2021 // Insurance agency personnel on average made a little less money in 2020 but they were more satisfied with their compensation in what was a stressful year.Satisfaction with compensation rose across the board, according to...

OneDigital Acquires Missouri’s HM Employee Benefits and Risk Management

Feb 11 2021 // OneDigital has acquired HM Employee Benefits and Risk Management (HM), located in St. Louis, Missouri.This acquisition is the first to integrate property/casualty (P/C) into OneDigital’s suite of health, retirement...

Newfront Insurance in California Adds Benedetti to Employee Benefits

Feb 8 2021 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has named Joseph Benedetti a principal and employee benefits producer. Benedetti is based out of the Los Angeles area and supports clients across all of California. He joins...

Insurance Agency M&A Deals Surged 20% in Year of Pandemic: OPTIS

Feb 8 2021 // There were 744 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in 2020, up nearly 20% from 649 reported in 2019. The surge resulted from the pent-up supply of pending transactions from earlier in the year coupled with...

Ashfeld-Schwarz Joins MJ Insurance’s Employee Benefits Team in Indianapolis

Feb 5 2021 // MJ Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, has added industry veteran Leea Ashfeld-Schwarz to its Benefits Consulting team, where she will serve as an employee benefits client executive.Ashfeld-Schwarz comes to MJ from...

Lockton Pacific Names Lattimore in California to Lead Voluntary Benefits

Feb 1 2021 // Lockton Pacific Series has named Lorrinda Lattimore vice president, voluntary benefits.Lattimore is based in Lockton’s Irvine, Calif., office. Lattimore has more than 20 years of experience in leadership, sales and...