Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alliant Adds Arguelles to Employee Benefits Group in New Orleans
Mar 28 2017 // Sajeo Arguelles has joined Alliant Insurance Services’s employee benefits group as vice president in its New Orleans office. Arguelles will work with clients throughout the Southeast to design and deliver benefits...
Verhoef Named Director of Employee Benefit Sales at Western Growers
Mar 27 2017 // Western Growers Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Jason Verhoef to director of employee benefit sales. Verhoef will lead sales efforts to provide affordable healthcare insurance options for agribusinesses throughout...
Hub Names Ryan Employee Benefits Market Leader in Northern California
Mar 14 2017 // Hub California has named John Martin Ryan employee benefits market leader for Northern California. Ryan is responsible for managing and overseeing Northern California employee benefit producers, recruiting employee...
Alliant Acquires Burkhardt Consulting in Idaho
Mar 13 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Burkhardt Consulting LLC. Burkhardt joins Alliant’s employee benefits group, with the firm continuing to service clients from its Coeur...
Hylant Names Boone President of Orlando Office
Mar 13 2017 // Hylant, one of the nation’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage firms, has named Brian Boone president of its Orlando, Fla., location, effective April 10. From 2009 to 2013, Boone held the role of employee...
SWBC Employee Benefits Consulting Group Promotes Grove, Birdwell
Mar 8 2017 // SWBC Employee Benefits Consulting Group (EBCG), based in San Antonio, Texas, has promoted Andrew Grove to senior vice president of Sales & Market Development and Gary Birdwell to senior vice president of Service &...
USI Insurance Services Acquires Carolina First Associates in North Carolina
Mar 8 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Carolina First Associates LLC, an employee benefits insurance advisor located in Hickory, N.C. This acquisition extends USI’s presence as a middle market insurance brokerage...
EPIC Adds Duhe to Southeast Region Benefits Practice
Mar 6 2017 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has added Richard Duhe to the firm’s Southeast Employee Benefits Consulting Practice in Atlanta as a benefits consultant and director of EPIC MobileEZ. Duhe has focused for 30...
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Mar 6 2017 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Pa.-based independent broker, has hired Jeremy Taggart as a financial analyst in the employee benefits department. In his new role, Taggart will use his three years of industry...
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Mar 6 2017 // Gov. Eric Greitens has tapped Chlora Lindley-Myers to lead the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration. Her appointment is subject to approval by the Missouri...
Heffernan in California Names Huang Assistant VP of Employee Benefits
Mar 1 2017 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Edward Huang assistant vice president of employee benefits. Huang an enterprise sales background ranging from financial services to software as a...
New York’s Crystal & Company Hires Giué
Feb 27 2017 // Crystal & Company, a New York-based strategic risk and insurance advisor, has hired Ciro Giué as an executive director and national practice leader for voluntary and worksite employee benefit solutions. Giué brings...
Massachusetts-Headquartered Eastern Insurance Group Hires Goyer
Feb 24 2017 // Eastern Insurance Group, a Natick, Mass.-headquartered subsidiary of Eastern Bank, has hired Mark J. Goyer as vice president and sales executive within Eastern Benefits Group, the insurance firm’s employee benefits...
Houston’s Insgroup Acquires Benefits Firm, The Fawcett Group
Feb 21 2017 // Houston-based Insgroup Inc. (Insgroup) has acquired The Fawcett Group (Fawcett), a firm specializing in employee benefit plan brokerage and consulting to emerging and mid-market businesses, as well as not-for-profits. Jan...
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Feb 20 2017 // The California Earthquake Authority has named Todd Coombes chief insurance and technology officer and Kellie Schneider chief operations officer. This follows the retirement of Bob Stewart, the chief operations officer. The...
2017 Agency Salary Survey: Salaries and Total Compensation Up
Feb 20 2017 // Salaries for insurance agency management, owners, principals and producers were up in 2016. Total compensation for support staff also increased, although not by as much as they did the year before. That’s according...
USI Insurance Services Adds 3 in Independence, Ohio, Office
Feb 17 2017 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has added Tammi Barker, Bridget Day and Dave Petno in the USI Independence, Ohio, office. Barker, who joins the firm as account manager, has more than 17 years of insurance experience,...
Pennsylvania’s Henderson Brothers Hires Taggart to Employee Benefits Department
Feb 8 2017 // Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Penn., based independent broker, has hired Jeremy Taggart as a financial analyst in the employee benefits department. In his new role, Taggart will use his three years of industry...
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Feb 6 2017 // International insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., based in Itasca, Ill., has promoted James W. Durkin Jr. and William F. Ziebell in its employee benefit division. Durkin,...
Insurance Agency M&As Reached Near Record in 2016: OPTIS
Feb 6 2017 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year were the second-highest ever, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 449 deals in the U.S. and Canada in 2016, a slight dip...
