Employee benefits

In a move to boost its voluntary business, Sun Life partners with the NBA, offering employers and brokers the chance to mingle with players at charity events.

Tom Rieskse Jr. offers employers advice about what to look for when considering one of the newer multilife long-term care insurance offerings.

MetLife poll reveals employers view voluntary legal plans as easy to handle and can improve employee satisfaction.

The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury released proposed regulations on how religious organizations should apply the contraceptive coverage requirements under PPACA, alleviating some concerns religious organizations had previously expressed.

Two employers, Darden Restaurants and Cummins, share how they reached the decision about whether or not to move employees to health care exchanges.

Wellness programs may suffer or change direction with the arrival of the health care exchange marketplace.

Two new insurance products aim to raise employee awareness about retirement planning and disability.

From old communication tactics – like the ‘porcelain press’ and benefits road shows – to new ones like blogs and social networking, Life Technologies left no medium to chance when it rolled out its full-replacement shift to a consumer-driven health plan.

The efforts of Maurice Evans, director of HR at Integral Group, lead to higher enrollment in the company’s voluntary vision plan.

Teleworkers are happier, healthier, more satisfied in their jobs, more productive, more loyal to their companies and more likely to recommend their company to someone else.

Workforce experts address how to use American Psychological Association research as a jumping-off point to start mental health conversations with health care providers.

The $1.3 trillion U.S. health-care system overhaul is getting more expensive and will initially accomplish less than intended.

Because there can be various ways of assessing what constitutes a full-time employee eligible for coverage under the PPACA, the IRS has issued guidance in the form of several notices, as well as temporary regulations.

It’s tempting to focus entirely on portfolio yield, duration, and quality when evaluating and recommending a Stable Value fund. But one feature is even more important.

The state health exchanges that are central to the U.S. Affordable Care Act are costing the federal government more than twice its initial budget to complete.

In recent years, voluntary benefits have risen from a nice-to-have for employees to something that is quickly becoming crucial. Doug Mantz looks back at the evolution of voluntary benefits through the lens of one long-time client.

How to correct plan problems that surface after you get them in house.

Tuesday’s study found 13% of those ages 18 to 64 reported not taking their medications as prescribed to reduce costs compared with 5.8% of those 65 and older.

“Now is the time to buy before gender rating kicks in and before the best inflation option [5%, compounded for life] becomes unaffordable or goes away,” says one expert.

With two daughters in college, The Principal Financial's Aaron Friedman has come to appreciate that the three “R’s” continue into higher education. The traditional readin’, ‘rightin’, and ‘rithmatic, carry forward, but he's realized lately that a fourth “R” applies — an evolution with private higher ed in “R”etirement planning.