Practice Management

The rising cost of health insurance looms large among business decision makers.

Despite the major natural disasters that hit the U.S. in 2011, only 31 percent of business owners say they are extremely or very prepared in the event of extreme weather, according to a recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey.

New multi-state plans may be held to different standards thanks to ambiguous language in the law, NAIC said.

Sometimes I wonder if CFOs and HR Directors talk with each other. Occasionally I run into a CFO who is implementing a tax strategy using employee benefits, and he or she is clueless as to whether the benefits are actually valued by the employee.

Chicago-based Hub International Limited announced it will purchase Strategic Employee Benefits Services of Louisiana, a Metairie, La.-based benefit consulting and service firm.

Rising benefits costs are forcing employers to make difficult trade-offs

Rising health care costs rank as a top financial challenge for CFOs.

For four years running, benefits consultants with global human resource consulting firm Aon Hewitt landed the most Top Employee Benefit Consultant™ awards.