In a brush up on voluntary, Prudential's Jim Gemus explains the advantages in offering voluntary to you, your clients and their employees in this challenging business environment.

“Investors are concerned about rising health care costs, and they should be,” says one expert with T. Rowe Price, noting that medical expenses topped a list of surveyed respondents’ recent concerns.

It’s likely no one pays more attention to retirement plan fees than the plan fiduciary, says The Principal Financial’s Aaron Friedman. After all it’s their job to work with the service provider and financial professional to make sure the fees paid by the plan are “reasonable.” But what exactly does “reasonable” mean and what does it have to with cars?

Health care reform means that many patients can no longer be denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions. But there’s a big catch: Coverage for many Americans without insurance will come at a potentially unaffordable cost.

Executives are at risk, as the average long-term disability plan may not take care of them

How Tussey v ABB is a new frontier in ERISA class-action litigation

2012 election and victory of Obama over Romney means health care industry will change

The healthy as well as sick employees deserve attention in high deductible health plans.

EBA editor Elizabeth Galentine explains how to view the whole picture.

Two decades of experience and a genuine enthusiasm for the product make Dan McNeill EBA’s 2012 Voluntary Adviser of the Year

The pros and cons of a benefit practice offering retirement plan services.

Post-election, for those who were waiting for something to happen that might change the course of health reform, you can stop waiting. A recent Mercer study found 15% of clients were waiting on the election to start implementing health reform, anticipating a change in administration would either repeal it, fundamentally change it, or roll back some of the provisions - which was probably more feasible. That not being the case, I think everybody out there should start making plans for 2014 based on the law as we know it.

A smoker’s need for a support network is one reason smoking-cessation programs in the workplace have a good chance at success.

As private exchanges expand and companies consider a future beyond the traditional employer-sponsored health care system, benefits experts weigh in on consumers’ readiness for defined contribution health.

Less than one week after Obama won a second term in office, dozens of employers already were setting about the business of offsetting the impending business costs of implementing health care reform or other Obama policies they view as unfriendly to their industry.

A Mercer survey suggests that, as employee engagement stalls, work-life balance could be the difference between keeping or losing top talent.

From increasing involvement and understanding of benefits during the open enrollment process to guiding a plan participant through a wellness program, interactive technology is becoming an ever more important and prominent part of the employee benefits communication package.

Key considerations for employers and their brokers looking to self-fund.

Aetna and other insurers that initially fought President Obama’s health care overhaul are reversing course and supporting the effort by funding a group planning to spend $100 million to help the uninsured get coverage.

Justices this week gave no obvious indication of their stance on the case of James McCutchen, who was sued by his benefit plan administrator in an attempt to recoup medical expenses.