Dont look now, but something new and unusual is happening around the long-term care insurance category: Its finally getting some deserved attention.

The case for long-term care insurance is usually made with mathematics, and rightly so.

What significant changes have affected the long-term care category since we visited a year ago?

Benefits brokers and agents who sell voluntary accident-, illness-, and disability-related insurance products have a huge opportunity to make inroads into employer organizations, according to the 2011 Aflac WorkForces Report.

The tenuous market conditions and slow economic recovery in which todays brokers and consultants operate is only the beginning of their challenges. Healthcare reform presents another major change on the horizon.

When tragedy strikes, life insurance responds, helping survivors carry on with their lives financially. As valuable as a death benefit check is, many survivors face other hurdles as they learn to cope with their loss.

As employers seek to contain costs and simultaneously provide meaningful new benefits to employees, one area stands out as a natural financial education in the workplace. For many organizations financial wellness already has gained traction, accompanying programs that promote physical health for employees. Both physical and financial wellness foster...

Employers, and therefore brokers and consultants, often put their emphasis on the size of the provider network when selecting between dental benefits plans.