Voluntary Benefits

Doctors, insurers and consumers are "ready and willing" to adopt value-based insurance designs, which use information and financial incentives to guide consumers' choices, a recent survey found.

Over $8 billion dollars in long-term disability insurance claim payments was paid to disabled workers in 2009, a 2.9 percent increase from 2008, a recent survey found.

Employees shared what they thought were the top advantages of voluntary products.

A recent survey finds more employers are asking workers to bear a greater share of the cost for their employer-sponsored benefits to help mitigate the effects of a down economy.

80 percent of brokers say voluntary benefits are "very important" to the packages they offer employers; 17 percent said they were "somewhat important."

There is ample opportunity for employers to leverage wellness programs, according to the annual study.