Between the latest commission regulations and uncertain employer attitudes, brokers are looking at a new health insurance landscape, and many are wondering if there's still a place for them in the market.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration is making available $1 million in safety and health training grants to detect and prevent unsafe working conditions in and near mines.

Of the workers who were laid off in the past year, 60 percent of those have found new jobs, and 88 percent of those are in full-time positions, according to a new Harris Interactive survey.

Today’s job market isn’t easy for anyone, but recent college graduates especially are facing a tough time.

Twenty-four percent of middle-class Americans are increasingly unhappy professionally, and 39 percent of middle-class Americans are looking for new jobs, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.

For once, there’s talk about declining health care costs.

Lockton Benefit Group President Michael Brewer told lawmakers in Washington, D.C., more than 80 percent of employers are so committed to their employees that they plan to continue to offer group insurance, despite the uncertainty surrounding health care reform.

According to Aon Hewitt’s new absence management report, 85 percent of employers rank robust subject matter expertise regarding compliance as the most important component when measuring an absence management program’s success.