Brown & Brown has acquired Synergy Benefits, a Potomac Falls, Va., employee benefits firm serving the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

A Maryland insurance broker, indicted last month for allegedly stealing $216,000 from the City of Perth Amboy, N.J., is now facing a second indictment, accusing him of conspiring to steal more than $2.5 million from the Perth Amboy Board of Education by submitting fraudulent claims.

Florida-based Brown & Brown is buying the assets of Meridian Group of New York, which will be operated by a subsidiary, Brown & Brown of New York.

Nippon Life Benefits has announced the availability of a comprehensive new wellness program to help employees proactively manage their health and enable employers to better control healthcare costs.

MetLife has introduced a new dual-option dental offering for smaller businesses it says is designed to make it easier for these firms to achieve their top benefits objectives of controlling costs and retaining employees.

Aflac announced that a new acquisition has allowed it to offer voluntary group benefits to companies with as few as 100 employees.

Assist America, a provider of global emergency services through employee benefit plans, has expanded the scope of its program to include comprehensive identity theft prevention and resolution services.

A dozen Virginia colleges have decided there is power in numbers and have formed a collaborative benefits group to control the cost of employee health benefits.

Delaware state workers will start paying more for infertility treatments as of July 1, due to a cut in benefits recently approved by the state’s employee benefits committee.

A Scranton, Pa., grand jury has indicted the principals of a landscape architectural and civil engineering firm for allegedly embezzling money from the retirement accounts of their employees.