Employee Benefits Corporation of America (EBCA) has a new general agency agreement with Coventry Health Care of Delaware to market small-group and individual plans.

The Hartford is hoping to parlay its success at selling fixed universal life policies through banks and wirehouses to the independent agent distribution channel.

John J. Slattery Associates, a Wall, N.J., employee benefits provider to the tri-state area, has joined Bollinger Insurance, one of the nation’s largest insurance brokers.

A Dallas-based general agency has “established ourselves as a dominant player” in North Jersey with its acquisition of NAS Financial Services, a general agency based in Morristown, N.J., according to its president and CEO.

The Iroquois Group, one of the oldest networks of property-casualty insurance agencies in the country, is offering financial services through a new division and subsidiary.