Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2017 Yields Highest Recorded Number of Announced Deals: MarshBerry
Feb 5 2018 // The number of announced U.S. insurance broker deals in 2017 was the highest in recorded history, at 536. This year also had the highest number of deals closed in the fourth quarter since 2012 (when the capital gain tax...
Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS
Feb 5 2018 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year broke all records in 2017, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 604 deals in the United States and Canada in 2017, a 31...
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Feb 5 2018 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has added Elian Boukhalil as an account manager. Boukhalil will work within CAL’s affluent families division. She was previously an intern with Publiscreen Online. Before that she...
Employee Benefit Strategies Group Joins Holmes Murphy
Feb 1 2018 // Independent insurance brokerage Holmes Murphy announced it has added Employee Benefit Strategies Group (EBSG) to its team of benefits experts. The EBSG team members joining Holmes Murphy have a combined experience of more...
Workplace Wellness Programs Are an Exercise in Futility, Latest Research Finds
Jan 26 2018 // Workplace wellness programs have two main goals: improve employees’ health and lower their employers’ health-care costs. They’re not very good at either, new research finds. For the study, 3,300 employees...
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Jan 22 2018 // Salt Lake City, Utah-based Leavitt Group Insurance Advisors has named Mike Scott a senior risk advisor and director of program business. Scott will focus on middle markets, large accounts, and hard-to-place specialty...
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Jan 22 2018 // Madison, Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance named Todd Fancher as its first digital transformation officer. Fancher will oversee American Family group’s strategic investment in technology and practices that...
New York State Employers Must Comply With New Paid Family Leave Law
Jan 22 2018 // By Bennett Pine New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a phased-in system of paid family leave that became effective on Jan. 1, 2018, for New York employers. On the state level, New York becomes the fifth state...
Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS
Jan 18 2018 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year broke all records in 2017, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 604 deals in the United States and Canada in 2017, a 31...
CAL Names Baldini Account Manager on Employee Benefits Team
Jan 10 2018 // CAL Insurance & Associates Inc. has named Abby Baldini an account manager. She joins the firm’s employee benefits team. Baldini was the owner of a State Farm agency in the Bay Area prior to CAL. Abby Baldini CAL...
2 Minnesota Employee Benefit Agencies Merge
Jan 10 2018 // Two independent Minneapolis, Minnesota-area employee benefits firms, SevenHills Benefit Partners and The Cleveland Company, have merged to offer broader services to local clients. The new firm, SevenHills Cleveland Benefit...
HUB International Adds Del Grande, Torres in California
Jan 9 2018 // Hub International of California has named Jason Del Grande vice president of employee benefits. Del Grande will join the San Francisco employee benefits team, which shares servicing responsibility with 10 sister offices in...
Lockton Benefit Group Names Mascolo Chief Operating Officer
Jan 8 2018 // Lockton Benefit Group (LBG) has added Mike Mascolo as chief operating officer (COO). He is based in Kansas City, Missouri. In his new role, Mascolo will focus on coordination and collaboration across the benefits group as...
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Jan 8 2018 // Oklahoma City-based independent insurance agency, INSURICA, has named Mark Bridges to lead its Texas operations as regional president. Bridges is currently the president of INSURICA DFB Insurance Services Inc. (formerly...
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Jan 8 2018 // Encino, Calif.-based Answer Financial has named Kevin Smith director of business development. Smith will report to Tom Capp, senior vice president of business development. Smith has more than 25 years of experience within...
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Jan 8 2018 // Grinnell, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer/reinsurer, Grinnell Mutual, named Dave Wingert, executive vice president and chief operating officer, to serve as acting president. Larry Jansen retired on Dec. 15, 2017,...
Ascension in California Names Lopez President of Employee Benefits Division
Dec 27 2017 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Ascension Insurance Inc. has named Keri Lopez president of employee benefits. Lopez will build Ascension’s employee benefits market presence nationally. She has 19 years of employee...
New York State Employers Must Comply With New Paid Family Leave Law
Dec 27 2017 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a phased-in system of paid family leave that will become effective on January 1, 2018, for New York employers. On the state level, New York becomes the fifth state...
Alera Group Acquires Illinois’ Hallberg Commercial Insurers
Dec 19 2017 // Deerfield, Illinois-based employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, Alera Group, has acquired Hallberg Commercial Insurers Inc. in Oakbrook, Illinois. Hallberg Commercial provides...
6 Industry Trends to Exploit for 2018
Dec 18 2017 // To prepare for the future, business owners need to observe what trends are occurring and then evaluate how those trends could impact their business. It is a guessing game, but an educated guess is usually proven to be...
