Out Front Ideas, an educational series interactive forum designed to explore critical insurance industry issues, kicks off yearly with its popular Issues to Watch webinar. Our goals are to facilitate industry conversations and encourage professionals to think about how we can work together to bring about positive change. Here, we focus on the high-impact matters relating to employee benefits and health care that need more attention. These are essential issues for benefits professional to monitor in 2023.

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Listen to the archive of complete Issues to Watch webinar here. Out Front Ideas with Kimberly and Mark will host two live sessions in 2023, at the Executives in Workers' Compensation Conference on April 25 in Anaheim, California and the WCI Conference on August 21 in Orlando, Florida. Kimberly George is the senior vice president of corporate development, M&A and health care at Sedgwick. Mark Walls is vice president of communications & strategic analysis at Safety National. Together they host the Out Front Ideas educational series.   Opinions expressed here are the authors' own.