Welcome to the Employee Benefits Week in Review (EBWiR).

In this blog, I'll be highlighting some of the major events and news surrounding the employee benefits business over the past week. Think of EBWiR as the place where I drink from the fire hose to bring you the week's news highlights so you can stay dry. Also, please treat this blog as a conversation. If I've missed an event or if you want to talk further about a topic covered here, use the comment form below so we can include other readers in our conversation.

New website to serve the employee benefits business:  Since the purpose of this blog is to review news in the employee benefits space, I would be remiss not to mention this week's launch of BeneftsPro, the modestly self-appointed "pulse of the benefits community."  BenefitsPro, the host of this blog, is a new website that will serve HR benefits managers, employee benefits brokers and retirement advisors. The site also will include access to the FreeErisa database.