Search Results

Brokers and their clients face numerous challenges given the changing benefits landscape.

This week’s round-up of news affecting the employee benefits business.

Direct results of the ppaca on health insurance professionals

Theres something reassuring about the way David Pittard handles his business. His methods of finding cost solutions through health and welfare management have been time-tested and successful. But in a post-reform era, Pittard faces his biggest challenges yet, with hope that the opportunities will prevail.

It hasnt been easy for health agents and brokers moving forward after new federal medical loss ratio regulations were passed last November.

Since 1998, my general agency has actively assisted health insurance agents in the implementation of hundreds of group limited medical plans otherwise known as mini meds. Id like to weigh in on the present and future role of these plans and cut through some mythology, confusion and outright distortions surrounding...

In order to execute new health reform provisions, actuaries say the individual mandate is too vital to be repealed. And if it is repealed, there better be alternatives.

In this blog, I’ll be highlighting some of the major events that occurred in the employee benefits business over the past week, as well as the news coverage surrounding them.