Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Grimm to Head Keystone’s Employee Benefits Division in Pennsylvania
Feb 10 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group has named Erica Grimm as head of it Employee Benefits Division in Pennsylvania. Grimm previously represented Emerson Reid & Co. as broker relationship manager responsible for the Keystone...
The W Group Merges with Cincinnati’s Hylant Group
Jan 26 2010 // Cincinnati-based insurance brokerage, Hylant Group, and the W Group, a privately owned firm offering employee benefit services, announced they have merged. The combined organizations will form one of the largest employee...
How Small Group Partnerships Help Agencies to Grow Employee Benefits Revenue
Jan 24 2010 // Gibson Insurance Group, Bolton & Co. Tell Their Tales of Growth In today’s challenging economic environment, property/casualty brokers are struggling to thrive. Toss in management of increasingly complex employee...
Yi Named Senior Client Consultant with Gallagher Benefit Services
Jan 21 2010 // Che Yi has been hired as senior client consultant with Gallagher Benefit Services Inc., in Greenwood Village, Colo. Gallagher Benefit Services is the employee benefits broker and consultant subsidiary of Arthur J....
Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. Names Frost VP, Employee Benefits
Jan 7 2010 // Nancy Lee Frost has joined San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. as vice president, Employee Benefits. She will focus on business development and employee benefits consulting. Frost has more than 20 years of...
2009 P/C Insurance Mergers, Acquisitions Large and Small
Dec 20 2009 // Large insurers AIG, Farmers and The Hartford made moves in 2009, as did large brokers Marsh, Aon, Willis, Gallagher, Brown & Brown, Hub and Wells Fargo. So, too, did, many regional insurers and Main Street agencies....
IMA Hires Sustr as an Employee Benefits Account Executive
Dec 9 2009 // Insurance broker IMA Inc. has named Pavlina Sustr an employee benefits account executive specializing in international accounts for IMA of Colorado based in Denver. IMA is part of IMA Financial Group Inc., a financial...
M&A Wrap-Up: Insurance Brokerage Mergers Took a Third Quarter Vacation
Nov 23 2009 // Deal making wasn’t at the top of the list of summer activities this season, but deal vacation was. Third quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continued declining to just 30 announced transactions...
Hoehne Joins Lockton Benefit Group in Minneapolis
Nov 23 2009 // Christine Hoehne has joined Lockton Benefit Group as an account executive in Lockton’s International Benefit Services practice in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to joining Lockton, Hoehne spent eight years as an account...
Colorado’s IMA Financial Hires Executive
Oct 26 2009 // The IMA Financial Group, Inc., a diversified financial services company specializing in insurance, asset and risk management with 450 employees and offices in seven markets across the nation, today announced that Lindsey...
Insurance Brokerage M&A Took a 3rd Quarter Vacation
Oct 19 2009 // Deal making wasn’t at the top of the list of summer activities this season, but deal vacation was. Third quarter merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continued declining to just 30 announced transactions between...
Morse Joins Willis Employee Benefits in Atlanta
Oct 1 2009 // Ward Morse has been named vice president and producer of Willis’ Georgia Employee Benefits Practice in Atlanta. He will be responsible for new business activity and sales for the insurance broker, and will report to...
The NIA Group Acquires Benefits Team
Oct 1 2009 // New Jersey-based brokerage The NIA Group has acquired J. Lindsay Fuller, CLU Inc. and USC Administrative Services, an employee benefits operation based in Moorestown, New Jersey. As part of the asset acquisition, J....
AmWINS Acquires Group Benefits Unit from Willis HRH
Sep 9 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH. MAG-EB is a wholesale broker of...
McQueary Henry Bowles Troy to Merge With Holmes Murphy & Assoc.
Sep 4 2009 // Dallas, Texas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P (MHBT), one of the largest privately owned insurance and risk management firms in the U.S, and the Texas division of Holmes Murphy & Associates, will merge to form...
M&A Activity Continues at a Snail’s Pace Compared to 2008
Aug 3 2009 // Insurance brokerage mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2009 was nearly half of what is was during the second quarter of 2008. Just 39 transactions were announced from April through June compared to last year...
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Jul 20 2009 // LoriAnn Lowery resigned from her position as president of Lloyd’s North America, after a little more than a year on the job. Sue Langley, Lloyd’s director of market operations and North America, said Lowery,...
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Jul 6 2009 // DeCotis Insurance Associates Inc. has named Devin B. Haughey chief operations manager. Haughey will oversee the general management and operations of DeCotis, an independent excess, surplus and specialty lines firm with...
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Jul 6 2009 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company and State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Company has named new managers in various divisions. Robert (Bob) A. Bachtell is claims manager for State...
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Jul 6 2009 // Edward J. Maucere, former owner of London American General Agency Inc., a San Diego-based wholesale brokerage and underwriting manager for commercial transportation business, passed away unexpectedly on June 12, 2009, at...
