HealthSmart Holdings, based in Irving, Texas, acquired a Springfield, Mo.-based insurance and health care services company to expand its national presence.

A health insurance administrator, based in Maryland, is offering a new approach toward health and wellness, hoping it will bend the curve on health costs for its clients.

Sun Life Financial, based in Wellesley, Mass., announced it will market its stop-loss insurance through Cigna Payer Solutions, a network connecting third-party administrators with health care providers.

For nine years, Brown & Brown said it was impressed by a quartet of Connecticut agencies it now is adding into the fold.

Newark-based Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced a new deal, giving it sole ownership of AtlantiCare Administrators, a third-party administrator already serving 200,000 of the insurer’s members.

Richmond, Va.-based Provider Compensatory Invoicing (PCI) has added new intellectual property filings to its flagship product, ClaimCatcher.

Brown & Brown is acquiring two New Jersey-based insurance agencies with combined annual revenues of about $1.3 million to build its presence in New Jersey and the Greater Philadelphia area.

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 Guardian Insurance & Annuity Co. has initiated an enhanced awards program for third-party administrators (TPAs), who use its Guardian Choice and Guardian Advantage group retirement products.

COBRAGuard, a COBRA administrator located in Mission, Kan., announced the launch of a third-party administrator (TPA) program it says allows seamless value delivery.