From healthcare to housing: Supporting wildfire victims in LA
Companies like healthcare platform Sesame and others are launching dedicated efforts to provide victims of the California wildfires with vital resources.
Disaster recovery
Hurricane Florence aftermath: An employers’ checklist
Companies should divide up responsibility, develop a communications plan, contact their insurer and be supportive of employees.
Benefit professionals brace for Hurricane Florence aftermath
Advisers in the eye of the storm lay out some tips for dealing with a hurricane at work.
After the storm: Benefit advisers in the wake of Hurricane Florence
Advisers lay out some tips for dealing with a hurricane near work.
6 ways benefit advisers can prep for Hurricane Florence
As the storm bears down on the Carolinas, brokers can learn a few lessons about planning for a disaster from last year's hurricane season.
Benefits Think South Florida brokerage benefits from solid Irma communication plan
Sapoznik Insurance had a detailed plan in place, allowing the company to continue operations throughout the storm and recovery process.
Rachel Sapoznik
Sapoznik Insurance
Benefits Think Internal Revenue Code offers disaster relief funds outside gross incomes
Payments must reflect a reasonable estimate of the employee’s losses and expenses attributable to disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Kevin G. Bender
McGuireWoods LLP
Benefits Think ‘A stressful and horrific experience’: Adviser weathers Irma
Although his power is still out, Wayne Sakamoto says he can’t wait to assist clients and serve his Naples, Fla., community in its recovery effort.
Wayne Sakamoto
Health Insurance Interactive, Inc.
How auto and home coverage may fare post-storms
While Harvey and Irma property damage is still being calculated, observers cite teachable moments for workplace benefit policyholders.
How auto and home coverage may fare post-storms
While Harvey and Irma property damage is still being calculated, observers cite teachable moments for workplace benefit policyholders.
Hurricane Irma: 10 challenges for employers
Unemployment benefits, leave of absences and calculating wages are among the issues likely to affect companies in the wake of the storm.
Benefits Think 6 benefit issues to address in the wake of Hurricane Irma
Companies that were forced to close need to determine whether they have to pay employees who stayed home as well as handle other employment issues that many may not have thought about before.
Salvador P. Simao
FordHarrison LLP
How Florida employee benefit firms are preparing for Hurricane Irma
Closing offices, activating emergency plans and backing up data, brokerages plan to weather the storm.
How Florida employee benefit firms prepared for Hurricane Irma
Closing offices, activating emergency plans and backing up data, brokerages plan to weather the storm.
What an adviser in Irma’s path can learn from one who made it through Harvey
Houston broker Cary Goss shares lessons learned from an historic storm, including information he wishes he’d sent clients ahead of time.
IRS loosens 401(k) lending rules to help Hurricane Harvey victims
The Internal Revenue Service granted relief to those hit by the storm by making it easier for retirement plans to give loans and hardship distributions.
IRS offers tax help for Hurricane Harvey victims
The agency will allow some Texas residents to file certain individual and business tax returns and make some tax payments as late as Jan. 31.
