Voluntary Benefits

The successful passage of tax reform is enabling Aflac Inc. to boost its U.S. investments by about $250 million over three to five years, the carrier announced last week.

Pharma claims to like the free market, but in the year ahead, Gottlieb is set to prove how the free market can cut both ways for drugmakers.

If a multi-billion dollar corporation can offer an on-site barber and doggy daycare, why wouldnt it also provide a doctor?

The majority of the participating 18 carriers posted significant sales growth in their hospital indemnity/supplemental medical product lines, and many showed double-digit increases, according to a recent Eastbridge study.

In the voluntary benefits space, the shift to a zero-bill, post-tax environment opens the door for the last major coming change: from scheduled benefit plan design to lump-sum design.

For two decades, industry voluntary sales increased year after year, driven by new brokers entering the business. But seven or eight years ago, that came to an end as more brokers changed their selling strategies.

Benefits are the building blocks of financial wellness, and open enrollment is the most important opportunity of the year for employees to create a strong financial foundation.

MIT researchers have found that differing types of privacy laws within U.S. states produce markedly different effects on the willingness of patients to have genetic testing done.