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Several Republican leaders have either confirmed that they’ll be letting the federal government handle their states’ health care exchanges, or have yet to say, and the deadline is Friday.

Access to quality life insurance for middle and lower income families has disappeared over the past 10 to 20 years. A life insurance agent simply cannot make lower income American’s a primary market and be financially successful, says blogger Tinker Kelly. But how can you overcome that?

Is it worth it to cut employee hours and/or hire more part-time workers to avoid higher health plan costs under health care reform? Guest blogger Linda K. Riddell looks at both sides.

Expansion of consumer-directed health plans and investment in health management programs produced the lowest average annual employer cost increase since 1997, according to the National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, conducted annually by Mercer.

Rumor has it that the Department of Labor recently hired a lot of new field auditors, which could only mean one thing — more audits. Which Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman says means it is safe to say that more 403(b) plans will be put on the firing line as well. Just what we need, right? Well, a little work now and some knowledge may help, so keep reading.

In a letter to the nation’s governors, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius eased a tight deadline for the states to declare whether and how they will build health insurance exchanges mandated and funded under the Affordable Care Act.

Now that health reform is here to stay, blogger Dave Petno says he is ready for the challenge to understand what he calls the “entire 2,700 page monstrosity.” Here’s how you can be prepared too for your client’s questions.

The impacts of Hurricane Sandy have crystallized in many executives’ minds the importance of business continuity planning, according to a recent report from Janco, which contains a list of lesson's the firm believes this storm should have taught businesses. Images courtesy of Thinkstock. Edited by Insurance Networking News.

More than half of American smokers tried to stop at some point in the past year, and the average number of cigarettes smoked per day dropped.

Starting next year, PPACA will lead to a 3.8% surtax on many people’s investment income, but there are ways around it.