Guardian, Maxwell Health partner to offer brokers new platform
The life insurance and disability income carrier places its technology bet with Boston-based company, Maxwell Health.
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Guardian, Maxwell Health partner to offer brokers new platform
The life insurance and disability income carrier places its technology bet with Boston-based company, Maxwell Health.
Workplace Benefits Association
The Workplace Benefits Association is an organization of more than 6,000 corporate and individual members engaged in the marketing of benefits that involve the relationship between an employer and their employees, a business and their customers, and an organization and their members.
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Phil Albinus
Benefits Think Tech company works with insurers to reinvent benefits delivery
Vinay Gidwaney, chief product officer and co-founder of Maxwell Health, speaks about the company’s vision for a subscription-style benefits delivery model.
Andrea Davis
Employee Benefit News
Advisers finding ways to help clients cut benefit costs and still attract top talent
Many working with employers to create packages of inexpensive perks, such as generous maternity leaves and sabbaticals, that target millennials.
Benefits Think How benefit advisers can use negative enrollment to achieve some very positive outcomes
Integrating telemedicine with voluntary benefits can mean substantial savings for employers and significant opportunities for brokers.
Eric Silverman
Voluntary Benefits
Benefits Think Why some insurance carriers are no longer paying brokers commissions
In another ACA irony, carriers seek to discourage sales of money losing policies by denying consumers the professional advice they need, says NAHU president Don Goldmann.
Don Goldmann
Word & Brown
Student loan refi seen as benefits differentiator
Benefits administration technology firm Businessolver partners with online finance company SoFi to provide student loan refinancing as an employee benefit.
Benefits Think Why employer-sponsored weight loss programs often deliver disappointing results
With an emphasis on pounds lost, rather than healthy, sustainable behavior change, traditional programs can leave employees feeling discouraged and disengaged.
Lisa McVey
BioIQ
Benefits Think Why employers should consider offering free telemedicine
Worker have been slow to move online for medical visits, but research shows employee utilization rates soar when co-pays are eliminated, says Willis Towers Watson’s Allan Khoury.
Allan Khoury
Willis Towers Watson
Student loan refi seen as benefits differentiator
How advisers can help employers attract younger workers with this non-traditional worksite product.
What do plan sponsors want from advisers?
Employers are already swamped enough dealing with a litany of benefit issues. That’s why, a panel of plan sponsors explained at the NAPA 401(k) Summit, they are looking for benefits help from their advisers.
Benefits Think How a core buy-up approach can help workers with healthcare costs
Encouraging employees to purchase critical illness insurance encourages them to become better educated about their benefits plan, according to Sun Life’s Bryan Burke.
Bryan Burke
Sun Life
Benefits Think Why employer-sponsored weight loss programs often deliver disappointing results
With an emphasis on pounds lost, rather than healthy, sustainable behavior change, traditional programs can leave employees feeling discouraged and disengaged.
Lisa McVey
BioIQ
What do plan sponsors want from advisers?
Employers are already swamped enough dealing with a litany of benefit issues. That’s why, a panel of plan sponsors explained at the NAPA 401(k) Summit in Nashville, they are looking for benefits help from their advisers.
Paid family leave increasing in Calif., San Francisco sees further top-up
California’s paid family leave benefits will increase to 60% or 70% of weekly normal earnings beginning in 2018, but as a result of a city ordinance, San Francisco employers will have to top up these benefits to 100% of salary for some workers.
Benefits Think Employers advised to review employee classifications
With another tax season come and gone, companies should weigh their options when expanding the workforce in Q2.
Tracy Vicario
BCI Group, Inc
Benefits Think Why employers should consider offering free telemedicine
Worker uptake of the benefit has been slow, yet research shows utilization rates soar when there is no employee co-pay, according to Dr. Allan Khoury of Willis Towers Watson.
Allan Khoury
Willis Towers Watson
Benefits Think How a core buy-up approach can help workers with healthcare costs
Purchasing critical illness insurance for employees and offering them the option to buy more encourages them to become better educated about their benefits plan, according to Sun Life’s Bryan Burke.
Bryan Burke
Sun Life
Benefits Think Why plan sponsors should be upfront with workers about self-funding
The knowledge that their employers are paying the claims of the plans can dramatically change employees’ entire outlook on health benefits and total compensation, says CBIZ's Zack Pace.
Zack Pace
CBIZ