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Sun Life Financial, Mercer, The Guardian Life Insurance Company, Aflac and MetLife recognize employees in this week’s Comings & Goings. Check to see if a colleague is mentioned today.

Forty-seven million women will now have access to eight new prevention-related health care services under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on Wednesday.

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Consumer awareness of bank-sold life insurance has improved, and much of this improvement can be credited to generations X and Y, according to a report from LIMRA. The periodic report, "Bank on It! Opportunities With Today's Bank Customer,” found the majority of generations X and Y would consider buying life insurance policy from their bank—significantly higher than members of the older baby boomer and silent generations, where only about a third of these consumers say they would consider it.

Health Savings Accounts are estimated to have grown to more than $14.1 billion in assets through June 30, representing 7.1 million accounts, according to a survey and research report by Devenir, a broker-dealer and registered investment adviser based in Minneapolis.

Immediately after the Supreme Court's health reform decision brokers shared their reaction with EBA. View the full slideshow at eba.benefitnews.com/slide_show.

Now that heath reform remains intact, it's official: compliance waivers on expense-incurred medical plans are set to expire on Dec. 31, 2013 - which will result in millions of uninsured hourly and part-time employees looking for new avenues of health care coverage.

When Boston benefits firm Longfellow Benefits decided to elevate their technology system by converting to a cloud computing model they knew there'd be a little turbulence as they made the switch.

Intending to combat the cost of absenteeism, workplace disruptions or a significant change in productivity due to an employee with child or elder care worries, employers are starting to offer Care.com's Workplace Solutions as an employee benefit. Distributable through brokers, the online platform and consulting service helps families find every day, back-up and occasional care across the U.S.

By August 1, health insurance companies had to issue rebate checks based on their medical loss ratio formulas. The MLR provision of PPACA requires 15% or 20% of expenses be spent on plan administrative costs. Big "I" CEO Robert Rusbuldt shares several points about the law.