Insurance

Based on statutes and case-law mandates, employers have a moral and legal obligation to ensure the health, safety and security of their employees while traveling on business, both at home and abroad. Here's a comprehensive checklist of considerations to cover those workers.

A fix is in the works to ensure agents and brokers can identify themselves and therefore receive commissions for their work on the federally-facilitated marketplace, an agency official at The Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight said Tuesday.

Initial numbers for 2015 open enrollment put participation in Mercer’s Marketplace exchange at nearly five times the size of 2014 rates. The consulting firm also added 40 additional clients to the exchange who were not previously with Mercer.

From Saudi Arabia to Australia, nations all have different requirements for health insurance coverage for visiting U.S. workers - and making sure your employees have the right coverage is crucial to avoid negative ramifications for your company.

A benefits manager may assume that health care coverage and insurance needs are easily covered as employees head off to international worksites, but preparing for accidents - or the complexity of global insurance rules - requires some extra forethought.

From emergency rooms to pharmacies to company human-resources departments, changes will unfold within the U.S. health-care system on Jan. 1 as the nation guarantees insurance coverage to all Americans for the first time, a goal that has eluded presidents and lawmakers since the end of World War Two.

The deadline to enroll in health plans that begin Jan. 1 was extended to midnight today from yesterday for most of the U.S., the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said. The extension was announced as healthcare.gov yesterday experienced a single-day record number of visits and consumers were moved into a queuing system deployed when the website approaches 50,000 simultaneous users.

Four turnkey solutions to the problem of true benefits engagement.

While it provides peace of mind for employees, some brokers question this non-insurance benefit.

One man is a walking example of the disability insurance he sells — now he wants to reframe how brokers and employees view this benefit.