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During fourth quarter 2010, health and dental benefit cuts peaked at the highest level in two years following steady quarterly increases

After correcting employer-imposed job tenure requirements, only 58 percent - or 44 million - of U.S. private-sector employees were provided paid sick days in 2010, according to new research from the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

Specialty insurance brokerage firm Alliant Insurance Services, Newport Beach, Calif., has acquired New York City-based T&H Group, a regional full-service insurance brokerage firm.

Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, a Marsh Inc. subsidiary, White Plains, N.Y., has acquired the $4 million benefits brokerage and consulting firm Strategic Benefit Solutions Inc., based Alpharetta, Ga.

Sixty percent of all employers and 50 percent of large employers believe the intention of health reform is to eliminate the employer-based system and move to a single-payer system.

America's Health Insurance Plans' President and CEO Karen Ignagni says public discussion on health care costs has focused mainly on health insurance premiums while ignoring the real roots

this is clearly an administration that wants it both ways

As of November, less than half (44.8 percent) of American adults get their health insurance through an employer, according to a recent Gallup poll.