Few employers think their workers understand their benefit packages, which can be corrected by one-to-one benefits counseling sessions during enrollment, a new survey says.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Capital Bauer Insurance Agency, an Albany, N.Y.-based retail insurance broker allowing it to significantly expand its Upstate New York presence.

A Cleveland, Ohio-based business services provider bought the employee benefits and retirement section from Advantage Benefit Planning (ABP), based in Pleasantville, N.J.

A Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.-based insurance company acquired a Wakefield, RI.-based employee benefit consulting and brokerage firm specializing in middle-market businesses.

Murray Risk Management and Insurance in Lancaster, Pa., is buying an in-town brokerage competitor, The Securus Group, and its subsidiaries.

The defined benefit actuarial consulting operations of PSA Insurance & Financial Services have been sold to a Cleveland-based professional services company.

Employers are offering voluntary benefits more to benefit their employees than to cut costs, n cost driven, according to new research.

Marsh & McLennan Agency, a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., acquired the employee benefits division of a Marlborough, Mass.-based agency, adding about $600,000 in annual revenue to its middle-market operations.

A St. Louis-based plan administrator disclosed that a delivery service has lost a box of microfilm containing plan enrollment information from the 1960s and 1970s.

A Brown & Brown subsidiary in Michigan bought a employee benefits company in Saginaw, Mich., that generates about $2.3 million in annual revenues.