Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurer Offers Employee Benefit Deal: Student Loan Relief for Unused Vacation Time
Feb 7 2019 // Starting next year, U.S. employees at insurance company Unum Group will have a choice: The company will put money toward their student loans, if the worker gives up five paid vacation days. The new perk is a creative twist...
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Feb 4 2019 // Marsh/JLT, Brown & Brown/Hays Topped 2018 P/C Agency Mergers A handful of big deals dominated the very busy property/casualty insurance agency and broker merger news cycle for 2018. Based on Insurance Journal...
Private Equity Again Drove Agency M&As in U.S., Canada in 2018: OPTIS
Jan 29 2019 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agents and brokers last year broke several records in 2018, with private equity/hybrid buyers accounting for 68 percent of the total. According to consultants at OPTIS Partners’...
Hub Continues Canadian Employee Benefits Expansion with Purchase of TRG
Jan 9 2019 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced that it has acquired the assets of TRG Group Benefits and Pensions Inc. (TRG) in Canada. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition...
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Jan 7 2019 // Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has appointed Bill Creedon as Construction Industry leader for North America within its Corporate Risk and Broking segment. Creedon, a 30-year insurance and construction risk industry...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Apex Insurance Benefits in Idaho
Dec 17 2018 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Apex Insurance Benefits LLC in Blackfoot, Idaho. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Troy Goodwin, owner of Apex, will join Hub Mountain and report to Tara Tandrow,...
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Dec 17 2018 // Reliance Partners, which specializes in commercial insurance, added Brandon Richards as chief sales officer and opened a new office in Austin, Texas. Richards is a veteran insurance professional with more than 17 years in...
Athens Insurance Agency of Tennessee Partners with United Benefit Advisors
Dec 14 2018 // United Benefit Advisors (UBA), a nationwide independent employee benefits advisory organization, has added Athens Insurance Agency as one of its partner agencies. Athens Insurance Agency provides affordable personal,...
Alera Group Acquires Ohio Employee Benefits Firm, Bailey & Company
Dec 12 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Bailey & Company, an employee benefits firm headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Bailey & Company specializes in a wide variety of employee...
Dallas’ RiskPro Global Partners Acquired by Risk Strategies
Dec 11 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired RiskPro Global Partners, a full-service property/casualty and employee benefits firm headquartered in Dallas,...
JP Griffin Group in Arizona Partners with United Benefit Advisors
Dec 7 2018 // United Benefit Advisors has added JP Griffin Group to its family of partners. Scottsdale, Ariz.-based JP Griffin Group is a national employee benefit consulting firm specializing in the design, implementation and...
Alliant Hires Clifton to Employee Benefits Group in New Jersey
Dec 6 2018 // Alliant, a Newport Beach, Calif.-headquartered provider of property and casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, surety and financial products and services, has hired Joe Clifton to its Employee Benefits...
Woodruff Sawyer Names Margolin Northern California Employee Benefits Practice Leader
Dec 5 2018 // Woodruff Sawyer has named Joelle Margolin the Northern California employee benefits practice leader. Margolin has nearly 20 years of experience, and is a former employment lawyer and long-term HR professional. She was...
Texas’ Hotchkiss Insurance Hires 2 in Employee Benefits Division
Nov 30 2018 // Hotchkiss Insurance, a Texas-based full-service independent agency, has expanded its employee benefits division with the addition of Chris Hamilton as the employee benefits practice leader and Natalie Cooper as an account...
Sanchez Joins RHSB as Employee Benefits AVP in Dallas
Nov 28 2018 // Sebastian Sanchez joined RHSB (Roach Howard Smith & Barton) as assistant vice president in the Dallas-based agency’s Employee Benefits division. Sanchez is a benefit consultant with an emphasis in small to...
Alera Group Acquires New Jersey’s CRISP Insurance Advisors, Two Additional Firms
Nov 27 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based, national employee benefits, property and casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired three new firms: CRISP Insurance Advisors, Lively Insurance and Loretz...
CREST Insurance Group in Arizona Names Baena President of Employee Benefits
Nov 19 2018 // CREST Insurance Group LLC of Arizona has named Cristina Baena president of the employee benefits division. Baena will be overseeing 32 employees from the Tucson, Scottsdale, Sierra Vista, Flagstaff, as well as San Diego,...
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Nov 19 2018 // S.S. Nesbitt, a Southeastern insurance agency and division of EBSCO Industries Inc., has appointed Senior Vice President L. Dickerson (Dick) Fountain as market executive in Huntsville, Ala. Over the past year, S.S....
Universal Insurance Adds Anderson in Oklahoma
Nov 15 2018 // Carol Anderson has joined Universal Insurance, a subsidiary of First United Bank, as an employee benefits insurance advisor in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Operating out of First United Bank in Sapulpa, Anderson will be partnering...
Texas Associates Insurors Adds Loaeza, Rodriguez in Employee Benefits Division
Nov 13 2018 // Texas Associates Insurors, based in Austin, has hired two new account managers in its expanding Employee Benefits Division. Esther Loaeza joins the agency with 30 years of experience in the industry. She has overseen the...
