Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alera Group Acquires Oklahoma’s Benefit Plan Strategies
May 9 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Illinois, has acquired Benefit Plan Strategies (BPS), headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alera...
Alliant Employee Benefits Hires Pennsylvania’s Weber as Vice President
May 3 2018 // Alliant Employee Benefits has hired Pittsburgh, Penn.-based benefits consultant Mark Weber as vice president. In this role, Weber will bring his quantitative analysis and strategic problem solving skills to Alliant’s...
AssuredPartners Acquires The Elan Group of Florida
Apr 23 2018 // AssuredPartners, Inc. has acquired The Elan Group of Tampa, Fla., an employee benefits firm specializing in the design, enrollment and service of employee benefits plans. The company’s staff of 21 will remain under...
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Apr 2 2018 // Independent insurance broker ONI Risk Partners (ONI) has hired Mike Loveless as a commercial risk adviser in ONI’s Fort Wayne, Indiana, office. Loveless most recently worked for JPMorgan Chase as a branch manager. He...
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Mar 19 2018 // The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Robert Gilbert of Markel West Insurance Services as the new chair of the SLA Board of Directors. Gilbert’s election was finalized after the SLA...
Benefits of Offering Legal Insurance
Mar 19 2018 // Are standard voluntary benefit offerings enough to keep employees (and, by extension, employers) satisfied? A Society for Human Resource Management study found that while three-quarters of HR professionals believe...
Alliant Hires Former New Jersey State Senator Beck
Mar 13 2018 // Alliant has added former New Jersey State Senator Jennifer Beck to its regional brokerage team. As vice president, Beck will provide insurance and risk management services to organizations across the Garden State. Beck...
ONI Risk Partners Adds Adams as Benefits Consultant in Indianapolis
Mar 8 2018 // ONI Risk Partners, based in Indianapolis, has hired Noah Adams as an employee benefits consultant. Adams advises employee benefits clients on issues relating to wellness, healthcare reform, controlling costs, and employee...
Alera Group Acquires Houston’s IMG Benefits
Mar 7 2018 // Illinois-based Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired IMG Benefits Group LLC in Houston, Texas. Terms of the transactions were not...
Lockton Benefit Group Adds Kirschbaum in St. Louis
Mar 6 2018 // Lockton Benefit Group (LBG) has added Jay M. Kirschbaum to its Compliance Services team. He is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Kirschbaum has more than 30 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in employee...
MJ Insurance Names Evans Employee Benefits Consultant in Arizona
Mar 5 2018 // MJ Insurance has named Sean Evans an employee benefits consultant in its Phoenix, Ariz. office. Evans previously was a franchise owner and operator of Jimmy Johns – Cali Subs LLC in Santa Barbara, Calif. Indianapolis,...
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Mar 5 2018 // Integro Insurance Brokers has named Jacquelyn Neal as a principal in the marine practice. Neal is based in the San Francisco, Calif., office. She will manage a book of existing marine clients and develop new cargo and...
NFP Focusing on Organic Growth in Central Texas Expansion
Mar 5 2018 // Employee benefits and property/casualty insurance broker and consultant NFP traditionally has grown through acquisitions but as the global organization targets Central Texas for expansion it plans to use another strategy...
Panettiere Appointed SVP of Lockton Employee Benefits in Atlanta
Feb 21 2018 // Chris Panettiere has been appointed as Lockton’s new senior vice president of Employee Benefits. He will be based out of the company’s Atlanta office. Prior to joining Lockton, a privately held, independent...
Insurance Journal’s Agency Salary Survey
Feb 19 2018 // Total compensation for insurance agency management, owners, principals and support staff were up in 2017, while total comp for producers declined just slightly over the year before. That’s according to the 2018...
HUB International Names Greene Vice President of Employee Benefits in California
Feb 8 2018 // HUB International of California has named Lynn Greene vice president of the employee benefits practice. Greene’s primary role will be the design, placement, and maintenance of healthcare programs and human-resource...
Alera Group Acquires Three East Region Firms
Feb 8 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired three East region firms, effective February 1, 2018. Aisling Partners Insurance...
Alera Group Acquires Davidson Benefits Planning in Oregon
Feb 7 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Davidson Benefits Planning, headquartered in Tigard, Ore. Alera made the purchase along with the purchase of three other firms effective Feb. 1, bringing the total number of acquisitions since...
Marsh & McLennan West Names New Principals in California and Alaska
Feb 5 2018 // Marsh & McLennan Insurance Agency has promoted eight executives to principals of the firm. In San Diego, the new Principals are Donna DeBolt, Wayne Pages, Greg Pendergast, Erin Quigley, Jeff Simpson, Ryan Stover, and...
The Hartford Adds Employee Benefits, E&S Options to Small Business Online Quote System
Feb 5 2018 // The Hartford has enhanced ICON, its online quoting system for agents and brokers, to include access to quote employee benefits as well as excess and surplus (E&S) coverage for their small business customers. Employee...
