Benefits Broker

Choosing benefits that make a difference in the quality of life is a very important issue with employees, especially when they are picking up the cost of the product.

While we continue to squabble over Judge Vinson's now-weeks old ruling, life goes on.

An amendment proposed by a Georgia Congressman would cut off funding for HHS to implement new medical loss ratio requirements. Health agents and brokers praise the measure, hoping it will prevent further disruption in insurance markets.

Based on Colonial Life claims statistics, heart attacks, strokes and coronary artery bypass surgeries accounted for 58 percent of critical illness claims in 2010.

During health care reform's implementation in 2014, up to two-thirds of California's 7 million uninsured residents will become eligible for health insurance coverage, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

... because readers apparently misunderstood or simply misread my blog from a couple of weeks ago. And I apologize for garbling, or otherwise irresponsibly delivering my message.

The workforce's youngest employees have taken a more proactive role in researching benefits that offer financial protection over the last two years, according to online studies by Harris Interactive on behalf of Unum.

The Department of Health and Human Services introduced new regulations that guarantee students enrolled in their college or university's health insurance would be covered under the consumer protections.