PERMA, an alternative-risk solution provider, haschosen Benefit Express to electronically administer benefitsfor its Health Joint Insurance Fund segment, which is accessible togovernmental departments and school districts in New Jersey.

"This partnership with Benefit Express is tremendous news, notonly for the public entities enrolled in our Health JIFs, but fortheir employees as well," says Joseph DiBella, executive vicepresident of PERMA. "It represents a material investment intechnology that will allow us to provide exceptional web-basedservices to our members and eliminate many of the manualprocesses."

"This development takes what we can offer to the next level. OurHealth JIFs and plan members will now enjoy things like online enrollment, secure access to their benefit elections,and self-service features similar to what they experience when theyshop online at Amazon.com. Plus, important benefit documents will beat their fingertips, day and night. This set of bundled services issimply not available anywhere else."