Latest Employee Benefits Headlines
All the headlines from our Employee Benefits Topic Page, ordered by recency.
GCG Financial Promotes DeMello, Levitz in Illinois
Mar 2 2021 // Deerfield, Illinois-based GCG Financial, a full-service financial services firm and part of the Alera Group, has promoted David Levitz to managing partner and Carla DeMello to president, Employee Benefits. Levitz, who...
Conner Strong & Buckelew Names Jampana as Senior VP, Chief Information Officer
Feb 26 2021 // Conner Strong & Buckelew, an insurance, risk management and employee benefits brokerage and consulting firm, has named 25-year technology leader Anil Jampana as its senior vice president and chief information...
EPIC Realigns Leadership With O’Neil as President; Creates New Regional Lineup
Feb 24 2021 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants announced organizational and restructuring changes across the company. Tom O’Neil has been named president of EPIC and will work directly with CEO Steve Denton to grow the...
Agency Employee Satisfaction Rises Despite Pay Decreases
Feb 22 2021 // Insurance agency personnel on average made a little less money in 2020 but they were more satisfied with their compensation in what was a stressful year. Satisfaction with compensation rose across the board, according to...
OneDigital Acquires Missouri’s HM Employee Benefits and Risk Management
Feb 11 2021 // OneDigital has acquired HM Employee Benefits and Risk Management (HM), located in St. Louis, Missouri. This acquisition is the first to integrate property/casualty (P/C) into OneDigital’s suite of health, retirement...
Newfront Insurance in California Adds Benedetti to Employee Benefits
Feb 8 2021 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has named Joseph Benedetti a principal and employee benefits producer. Benedetti is based out of the Los Angeles area and supports clients across all of California. He joins...
Insurance Agency M&A Deals Surged 20% in Year of Pandemic: OPTIS
Feb 8 2021 // There were 744 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in 2020, up nearly 20% from 649 reported in 2019. The surge resulted from the pent-up supply of pending transactions from earlier in the year coupled with...
Ashfeld-Schwarz Joins MJ Insurance’s Employee Benefits Team in Indianapolis
Feb 5 2021 // MJ Insurance, headquartered in Indianapolis, has added industry veteran Leea Ashfeld-Schwarz to its Benefits Consulting team, where she will serve as an employee benefits client executive. Ashfeld-Schwarz comes to MJ from...
Lockton Pacific Names Lattimore in California to Lead Voluntary Benefits
Feb 1 2021 // Lockton Pacific Series has named Lorrinda Lattimore vice president, voluntary benefits. Lattimore is based in Lockton’s Irvine, Calif., office. Lattimore has more than 20 years of experience in leadership, sales and...
George Petersen in California Names Five New Principals
Jan 22 2021 // George Petersen Insurance Agency has promoted Joseph Feierabend, Jack Fess, Sean Parsons, Colby Ritch and Mindy Sehon to principals within the agency. The agency now has 20 principals across eight of the agency’s 10...
Hub Acquires Assets of MPE Employee Benefit Services of Mississippi
Jan 21 2021 // HUB International Limited (Hub), a global insurance broker, has acquired the assets of MPE Employee Benefit Services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Ridgeland, Miss., MPE Employee Benefit Services...
Insurance Agency M&A Deals Surged 20% in Year of Pandemic: OPTIS
Jan 20 2021 // There were 744 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in 2020, up nearly 20% from 649 reported in 2019. The surge resulted from the pent-up supply of pending transactions from earlier in the year coupled with...
Newfront in California Adds Parker as Employee Benefits Producer
Jan 18 2021 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has brought Nichole Parker on as a principal and employee benefits producer. Parker joins Newfront from TSM Insurance and Financial Services Inc., where she was heading the...
MJ Insurance Adds Crossland, Bushelle and Young in Indiana
Jan 11 2021 // MJ Insurance has hired Holden Crossland as employee benefits consultant, Branden Bushelle as database analyst and Matthew Young as risk transfer specialist at the independent agency’s Indianapolis headquarters. As an...
Top Southeast Region Insurance M&As of 2020
Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was more a global than national story but it captured more readers in every geographic location than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained...
Lockton Dunning Benefits Adds 3 Key Executives in Houston
Jan 5 2021 // Lockton Companies’ Lockton Dunning Benefits has hired Jason Mahler, Travis Brashear and Don Harrison, expanding its growing presence in the Houston market. All three executives will work closely with the firm’s...
Marshall & Sterling Insurance to Acquire New York’s Jaeger & Flynn Associates
Dec 17 2020 // Marshall & Sterling Insurance, a 100% employee-owned company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Jaeger & Flynn Associates Inc. (JFA), an employee benefits broker and third-party administrative services (TPA)...
Texas Couple Sentenced to Prison in $15M Employee Benefit Plan Embezzlement Scheme
Dec 4 2020 // A Red Oak, Texas, couple have been sentenced to a combined 18-plus years in federal prison for their roles in a $15 million retirement plan embezzlement scheme, according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas...
Zywave Acquires Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC)
Nov 24 2020 // Insurance technology provider Zywave announced the acquisition of Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a leading provider of marketing, rating and management software and services to the insurance industry. Zywave...
Alera Group Names Parker as VP of Employee Benefits Technology & Services
Nov 16 2020 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based insurance and financial services firm, has named Brian Parker as vice president of Employee Benefits Technology & Services, effective November 1, 2020. He will be based out of...
