Voluntary Benefits

Investors for Opioid Accountability plans to file shareholder proposals on board oversight of business risks at 10 manufacturers and distributors to compel them to do more to limit the risks of the addictive products and protect shareholders against losses.

Employers are recognizing that open enrollment is one of the few times each year that they get to communicate with all of their employees, particularly in regards to their benefits.

With the price of a crucial diabetes drug skyrocketing, at least five states and a federal prosecutor are demanding information from insulin manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industrys financial middlemen.

The Trump administration has come out with a 365-page notice that shows how the U.S. major medical insurance market could look in 2019 if that market still exists.

A merger of CVS and Aetna would create a health-care behemoth and put huge pressure on standalone players such as Express Scripts Holding Co. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

Employers will one day be able to use artificial intelligence to guide the way in helping workers more clearly understand how to use their benefits correctly.