Keynote speaker Alan Katz opened this year’s Benefits Selling Expo with a look at how brokers can be prepared for the shifting landscape and how they can improve their bottom line.

Time to usher in the new. Jim Christenson, one of this years Benefits Selling Expo speakers, gives us some insight on where the employee benefits industry will tread throughout the next five years, and what to expect out of health care reform. The following is just a preview. Dont miss...

In 2009, John T. Newby founded ETMG in Austin, Texas where his company functions as distributor between carriers and brokers to design plans that meet specific client needs.

Senior leadership is continuing to put an emphasis on improving employee health, according a survey by Willis North America's Human Capital Practice, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, the global insurance broker.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced in a letter it has granted a waiver to the Maine Bureau of Insurance, which delays the implementation of the federal medical loss ratio requirement by three years.

Twenty-seven percent of employees say they are "not at all confident" about having enough money to live comfortably in retirement.

Congressmen Charles Boustany, R-La., and John Larson, D-Conn., introduced the Medical Flexible Spending Account Improvement Act, which would allow consumers to withdraw and pay taxes on any residual funds in their medical flexible spending accounts.

Fewer employees are placing a high priority on managing and improving their health, according to a recent Towers Watson survey of more than 9,000 large- and mid-size employees.