The shrinking unemployment rate has been a healthy turn for people with job-based benefits. Eager to attract help in a tight labor market and unsure of Obamacare’s future, large employers…
A.M. Best: Preliminary Results Show U.S. Life/Health Industry’s Net Income Slipped 3.1% The U.S. life/health industry reported a 22.8% year-over-year increase in pretax net operating income to $66.2 billion in…
Hodges-Mace, LLC announced the release of SmartBen NOW, a mobile app and centralized benefits dashboard solving one of the top frustrations in employee benefits: how to gather and present critical…
Governor Brown signed the California Association of Health Underwriters’ top priority bill AB 72 (Bonta/Wood/Bonilla/Dahle/Gonzalez/Maienschein). AB 72 is bi-partisan consumer protection legislation aimed at protecting health care consumers from unexpected…
Small business owners are finding that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has decreased the appeal of health care benefits to employees and increased the importance of a retirement plan, according to…
Nearly half of employees are stressed by the open enrollment process and only half are confident about the benefit decisions they made last year, according to a study by MetLife.…