Practice Management

We need a new name for the compensation paid to key talent in a business. Executive benefits is often equated with C-Suite perks in public companies, not with the incentives used in American businesses to encourage top performers to perform to their highest potential.

When Im asked to help with an employee benefit design, one of my first questions concerns the employers tax structure. Unfortunately, sometimes the response is, Who cares?

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.