Voluntary Benefits

Sometimes all that fancy technology isnt all that important. Sometimes people just want good, ol, human contact.

Why has insurance lost its sex appeal as a professional practice?

Prudential Financial Inc., the No. 2 U.S. life insurer, posted net income of $1.09 billion in the first quarter driven by results at the U.S. unit.

This is the last in our series of columns on the industry results for 2013.

The days of employer-paid benefits are disappearing faster than a snow cone in Julyespecially when you consider that most companies aren't helping to offset the costs for much more than major medical and physician care for their workers.

Gone are the days when Lasik was a mysterious, untested procedure that might make your eyeballs explode a decade down the road.