Chris Wolpert, founder of Group Benefit Solutions, thinks protecting employees' quality of life is a key to successful benefits.

On October 16th, the first domino fell. The first state government (the Commonwealth of Kentucky) communicated their decision to discontinue all payroll deductions of voluntary benefits, starting in 2019. In short, this is a watershed event in accelerating the death of traditional payroll deduction.

BenefitsPRO editor Paul Wilson reflects on the exciting but overwhelming experience of back-to-back industry events.