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Like it or not, limited plan options seem here to stay. Brokers and employers discuss their strategies for navigating through them.

President Barack Obama’s health care law is becoming more entrenched, with 64% of Americans now supporting it outright or backing small changes.

In Maine, the insurer that has enrolled the most Obamacare customers isn’t the state’s well-established Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, owned by WellPoint Inc. It’s WellPoint’s only rival.

More and more employers are looking to wellness programs to help relieve the expected burden of the Affordable Care Act’s excise tax on their high-cost plans. While 35% have already taken action to add or improve these supplemental programs, approximately 47% say they are considering this option, according to a new employer survey from Mercer.

Before you pack your bags and head for the beach this spring break, remember the most common ways identity thieves steal personal information are more likely to happen when you’re traveling, ARAG warns. The legal insurer offers five of the most common travel-related identity theft tactics and how to protect yourself from them.

The number of insurance agency mergers and acquisitions fell in 2013, with 248 reported transactions in the United States and Canada, down from a record 299 transactions in 2012, according to OPTIS Partners’ new semi-annual survey.

As employer-sponsored retirement plans are expected to see premium increases from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation this year, along with a possibility of an unsteady market economy and longevity issues, retirement officials are urging plan sponsors to consider de-risking techniques.

Besides death and dismemberment benefits, policies typically provide medical payments, temporary disability payments, and coverage for costs associated with repatriating employees from foreign soil.

Despite a recent Bloomberg report that employers are starting to pull back on retirement benefits, including the amount of their 401(k) match, mid-size employer retirement experts aren’t seeing such a trend.

Four of five U.S. companies have raised deductibles or are considering doing so as health costs increase, according to a Mercer survey of more than 700 employers.