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Employees generally don't spend enough time choosing their health benefits each year, with many blindly re-enrolling. This year especially that could be a risky and costly strategy as changes from the Affordable Care Act have transformed the insurance landscape. "In some cases, not making an active decision during enrollment means employees could get defaulted into a health care plan that doesn't meet their needs—or even worse—leaves them and their families with no coverage at all," says Craig Rosenberg, Aon Hewitt’s health & welfare benefits administration practice leader. "It’s up to employees to read the fine print and take an active role in understanding if and how these changes may impact them." [Images: Shutterstock]

Adopting a diet rich in unprocessed foods combined with moderate exercise and stress management over five years increased the length of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes linked to aging.

CIAB, Buck Consultants, CAPTRUST and more announce personnel moves. Check to see if a colleague is mentioned today!

Social media is similar to other marketing strategies in that it’s important to have a plan, but that’s about where the parallels stop.

The four-year slowdown in U.S. health care spending will end next year, and there is no sign the Affordable Care Act will significantly curb the acceleration in costs, government actuaries said in a report.

LIMRA research has released two studies on effective ways for companies and financial advisers to connect to the Hispanic market for life insurance. Here are 10 important facts for professionals to know when trying to reach the Hispanic demographic. [Images: Shutterstock]

In one of the biggest steps for private health care exchanges so far, Aon Hewitt has announced that it will be offering health benefits for more than 330,000 American employees of some well-known companies, including Walgreens, Sears Holdings and Darden Restaurants – parent company of Red Lobster and the Olive Garden.

Deaths from cancer have dropped by more than a million in the past two decades, but could an aging population change that?

Americans may say they want to insure their future, but what they buy doesn’t measure up.

While some are expecting technical glitches come Oct. 1, others point out the enormity of what’s at stake and quell widespread fears.