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We're seeing a lot of product news and client offerings coming across the wires this week. The employee benefits and retirement industry continues to grow and create.

The Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC), the professional association for absence and disability professionals, and workplace law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. announced a new collaboration to provide a complimentary, streamlined version of Jackson Lewis' Leave and Accommodation Suite of online tools to DMEC's membership.The Leave & Accommodation Suite is part of Jackson Lewis' workthruIT offering.

LIMRA released the first set of data exchange standards focused on post-enrollment data for the employee benefits market. The LIMRA Data Exchange Standards (LDEx) are designed to standardize the data exchanged between insurance carriers and benefits administration technology companies for non-medical employee benefits. The first version of LDEx is Benefits Enrollment Management 1.0 lets benefits administration technology companies send coverage elections, changes and terminations, as well as non-coverage demographic changes to a carrier in a consistent XML format.