Enrollment

New digital sales systems, big marketing campaigns or demographic math may have increased the number of young U.S. residents shopping for individual life insurance last month.

According to the 2017 Aflac WorkForces Report, 55 percent of American workers who receive benefits from their employer agreed that completing their annual health benefits enrollment made them feel secure, and 67 percent said they are confident they understood everything for which they signed up.

Early retirees, part-time workers and self-employed workers and other healthy Americans who buy their own insurance coverage and are facing premium increases of as much as 50 percent.

Here are four steps brokers can take to help clients better engage employees in the open enrollment process and create a booming benefits marketplace.

Insurance agencies that historically focused on property and casualty have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand into benefits in a really meaningful way.

Health care payers and providers may think theyre improving their processes to be more engaging to consumers, but many consumers feel otherwise.