BenefitsPRO Magazine-April 2014

Property and Casualty Source List

Charlene Harris

When it rains it pours

Mark Parabicoli

The first stories I can remember as a child were Aesop's fables.

Do the Right thing

Bruce Jacobs

Common sense suggests that sprawling out on the sofa and binge-watching The Walking Dead while plowing through endless bags of potato chips and super-sized, sugar-laden sodas has got to be less healthy than, say, knocking off a couple of miles on a treadmill.

Savings Processing

Dan Berman

Retirement savings took a beating in the downturn, leaving many in what is understandably a state of high anxiety about the best ways to ensure everyone gets the most they can out of their 401(k) plan.

The regulators

Nathan Solheim

Throughout the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Americans have been treated to story after story detailing the landmark law's effect on a variety of people.

Changing Minds

Ingrid Case

Steve Brady, national accounts sales director at The Standard in Portland, Ore., remembers a group of ship pilots who work the waters of Puget Sound.

PPACA chips away at uninsured rate

Kathryn Mayer

The uninsured rate for Americans is down, on track to be the lowest quarterly level measured since 2008and it's likely the result of Obamacare.

It's time we create a Child IRA

Christopher Carosa

This may sound like an April Fools joke, but it's not. That's just how unbelievable it is.

Consumers clueless about HSAs

Kathryn Mayer

Though reports have shown the steady growth of health savings accounts, in actuality, few consumers use the health savings vehicle.

Don't rain on my parade

Brian Hicks

How do we handle these people who claim to love us, but who revel in raining on our parade?

Questions to ask before choosing a wellness partner

Joe Miller

In and around the wellness industry, people's heads are spinning.

Drug fees surge under PPACA, report says

Kathryn Mayer

Brace yourself for soaring drug spending costsand feel free to blame Obamacare.

Anza: What I’ve learned

Denis Storey

During my first year in the business, I landed a nice sized account for the company I was representing at the time.

Health care hide-and-seek

Denis Storey

Word is employer health care costs are leveling off.

Retaining employee customers

Marty Traynor

This is a follow up to my column in the November issue, when I tried a bit of crowdsourcing to discover how the voluntary benefits business can do better at retaining customers.

Walking my way to magic

Kathryn Mayer

I recently spent a week on vacationand I was awesome at it.

My exchange or yours?

Bonnie Brazzell and Gil Lowerre

There's plenty of discussion about private exchanges these days.

Surviving the public exchanges

compiled by Denis Storey and designed by Joe Schlue

Last month, Benefits Selling and Oliver Wyman published some of the results of our annual health care survey.

Benefits Selling's 2014 Broker of the Year is...

Amber May

Ed Oravetz is the 2014 Broker of the Year.