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Lockton Chicago Adds Schmidt to Employee Benefits Practice

Apr 13 2010 // Kansas City, Mo.-based insurance broker the Lockton Companies has expanded its Chicago team with the addition of Thomas M. Schmidt as a vice president in the Employee Benefits Practice. Prior to joining Lockton, Schmidt...

Linn to Lead Lockton’s New Benefits Practice in Minneapolis

Mar 30 2010 // Kansas City, Mo.-based insurance organization, Lockton Companies LLC, has opened a Minneapolis, Minn., employee benefits consulting practice headed by Vice President/Team Lead Melody Linn . With more than 13 years of...

Security Breach Notification Laws Reinforce Need for Cyber Insurance

Mar 4 2010 // With more than 40 states now enforcing privacy and security breach notification laws, underwriters are working hard to scoop up the business this niche creates, while also tweaking their policy forms to provide the...

‘Hackers’ Prompt Lockton to Advise Risk Managers on Cyber Thieves

Feb 25 2010 // “A new wave of hacker attacks is breaching corporate and outsourced information systems with one information security firm recently detailing coordinated hacker attacks on 2,400 companies and government agencies...

Young Agents Survey

Feb 21 2010 // Most enter the insurance business by accident but for young independent insurance agents, the decision to stick with insurance as a permanent career is a matter of choice. A healthy 84 percent of young insurance agents say...

Lockton Expert Analyzes Product Contamination, Recall Insurance Market

Feb 17 2010 // The specialist market for insurance covering product recall and product contamination is resilient and stable, according to Ian Harrison, an expert in the field, in a new report – “Supply and Demand Growing for...

Lockton Dunning Benefits Appoints Pixley Executive VP, Practice Leader

Feb 12 2010 // Lockton Dunning Benefits appointed Sheri Pixley to the newly created position of executive vice president and practice leader of the Dallas-based health and welfare practice. Pixley has been involved in consulting with...

Schaffler Named President of Lockton Benefits in Chicago

Feb 12 2010 // Thomas J. Schaffler has been named president of the Lockton Companies’ employee benefits practice in Chicago . Schaffler joined Lockton more than 10 years ago as executive vice president and producer and serves on...

Riley Joins Lockton in Chicago

Feb 9 2010 // Kansas City-based insurance broker Lockton Companies has expanded its commercial insurance team in Chicago with the addition of Jason Riley as account manager. Riley will place and service insurance programs for...

Lockton’s Chicago Team Expands with the Addition of McMahon, Riley

Feb 8 2010 // Lockton Companies has expanded its Chicago team with the addition of O’Brien McMahon as producer with primary focus on employee benefits and Jason Riley as an account manager in the firm’s commercial insurance...

Lockton Insurance Adds Davis, Thomson to Benefits Practice

Feb 8 2010 // The Southern California subsidiary of Lockton Companies named Bryan Davis vice president and senior consultant, and Lissa Thomson as senior vice president, chief consultant, in the San Diego office. Davis will serve as a...

Humphrey Joins Lockton’s International Practice Unit in Chicago

Feb 5 2010 // Lisa Humphrey has joined Lockton Companies as vice president in Lockton’s international practice at its Chicago office. Prior to joining Lockton, Humphrey spent nine years as an account executive for Aon both in the...

Lockton Adds Corkan in Southeast

Feb 3 2010 // Insurance broker Lockton Southeast recently added Veronica Corkan to its team of benefits experts as vice president and unit manager in Atlanta. She joins Lockton after having served as a senior health and welfare...

Lockton Acquires Equity Stake in South Korean Broker IMI

Jan 21 2010 // Lockton announced that it has obtained a “significant equity holding in South Korean insurance broker IMI, with options to purchase an increased shareholding.” IMI has also been renamed Lockton Companies...

Lockton Promotes Hall as Managing Director for Cargo

Jan 11 2010 // Lockton has promoted Peter Hall to the role of Managing Director of its 16-strong Cargo practice. His appointment “is recognition of his 20 years’ experience servicing clients in the global cargo insurance...

Lockton Re Adds Executives in Kansas City and New York

Jan 8 2010 // Privately owned, independent reinsurance brokerage Lockton Re has expanded its presence in the United States with the appointments of three new executives – Larry Hunter-Blank, Joe Zuk and Scott D. Polkinghorne at...

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...

Lockton Announces San Diego Vice President

Nov 16 2009 // The San Diego office of Lockton Companies announced today that Bud Cole has joined the company’s employee benefits practice as vice president and senior consultant. Cole will serve as a liaison between clients and...

Pierce Joins Lockton Dallas Team as VP

Nov 16 2009 // Lockton Dallas has added Vice President and Producer Steve Pierce to its team of property and casualty experts in Dallas, Texas. He joins the group having served as the executive vice president of Guaranty California...

Safety Engineers Help Colorado School

Nov 9 2009 // One day while visiting a construction site operated by a client’s vocational technical school, American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Colorado Chapter member Mark Semonisck, CSP, assistant vice president...