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Insurance expenses have become the country’s No.1 financial concern, providing an urgent need for transparent coverage information.

The online platform lists more than 1,000 brokers and categorizes them based on factors such as geographic region and specialties.

The insurer says it will continue updating its supplemental health employee benefit suite in 2018.

About half of mid-sized and large companies plan to expand personal financial planning and increase retirement funds, according to a new Willis Towers Watson report.

Employees should consider that state laws may differ on who may be legally recognized as a beneficiary's spouse and thus whether their partner would be entitled to spousal benefits.

HR professionals must embrace technology in their learning and development initiatives so that unique worker needs can be met.

Build an education program, perform an objective review of investments and benchmark features are a few of the activities advisers should encourage now.

Using lowest-cost share classes, performing an annual investment fund review and distributing required fee notices are among best practices.

President James Klein spoke with EBN about the organization’s agenda, now that Cadillac tax implementation is delayed another two years.

Form 1094 and 1095 series returns for 2017, due in the early months of 2018, are not included in tax filing and penalty relief that the IRS has extended to individuals.

Benefit adviser firms and the law offices that counsel them grow staff and make leadership changes.

The French insurer’s purchase of the Chicago-based IT startup could spur brokers to align with ambitious tech and data analytics providers.

Experts say they save on printing and mailing costs, but also create an interactive experience and elevate benefits appreciation in real time.

The state is the latest in a string of cities and municipalities to bar questions of past pay.

The DOL is turning back the clock in a move that it believes will provide clarity for employers who seek to comply with the FLSA.

Collecting cost data and offering consumer-oriented tools to employees can help firms expose the widespread problem of variation in medical price and quality.

While the funds are ideal for certain people, they don't address important retirement considerations, such as the cost of funding a comfortable living and a person’s savings rate.

The problem can result in financial burdens and lost productivity for employees, but companies can provide support services and tools, including an advocacy service through the benefits plan.

Machine learning allows human resources professionals to deemphasize tedious aspects of the job while allowing them to pull a greater amount of insight from the results.

There have been some modest attempts in the past few years to shore up and fill in gaps in this country's haphazard system of retirement savings.