Voluntary Benefits

Voluntary critical illness sales almost doubled in 2009 as compared to 2008, according to Eastbridge Consulting Group's annual U.S. Worksite Sales Report.

Lack of support staff prevents small businesses from providing voluntary benefits programs to their employees.

When the price of care in their neighborhood is too high, recession weary patients are travelling much shorter distances to be treated.

Colonial Life surveyed employee benefits brokers in June to find what brokers felt were the most important qualities in a voluntary benefits carrier.

Sixty-three percent of HR professionals say the recession negatively affected their employee benefit offerings "to some extent" within the past year, according to a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management.

Doctors, insurers and consumers are "ready and willing" to adopt value-based insurance designs, which use information and financial incentives to guide consumers' choices, a recent survey found.