How many different insurance companies does your typical client use for their voluntary benefit offerings?

Hospital indemnity will be a growth product in the new couple of years. Do you know what's new with HI?

Nearly 50 percent of carrier respondents in a 2016 Eastbridge survey indicated that hospital indemnity (HI) will be a growth product for their companies in the next one to two years, more than double the number from the same survey in 2014.

Forty percent of employers say their experience with a private exchange was positive and more easy than other enrollments.

A recent Eastbridge survey of employers found that the use of private exchanges continues to be minimal among all size categories and that a positive correlation remains between use and employer size.

New brokers entering the field have greatly increased the number of competitors. And their voluntary productivity (especially for traditional employee benefits brokers) has soared. What does this mean for the average broker?

In a recent Eastbridge/BenefitsPRO survey, brokers were asked about their perception of current sales competition. The responses, reproduced in the chart to the left, show that between 20 percent and 40 percent of brokers sense that competition is higher than average. We believe that is just the tip of the...

The voluntary market is constantly changing, but the degree of change the last five years has occurred faster than ever before.