Issue 7
Features
Choosing the Best Benefits Provider
The advantages of using a broker instead of a single provider to implement and administer voluntary benefits are well-known. By not limiting yourself to just one provider
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Overcoming Challenges to Increasing Latino Enrollment
Doing business in the United States offers a great opportunity to serve a diverse audience, particularly the Latino community, which makes up more than 15 percent of the nation’s population. The Latino market is growing rapidly
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Is Body Weight a Health & Safety Issue?
Quite simply, it’s more intricately connected to overall health and safety than any other single factor. Workers with healthy body weights are far less likely to develop serious illnesses
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Elder Care Benefits: Retention and Recruitment Tools
People tend to remember bad news, whether it is trouble with a consumer product, inattentive customer service, a poorly handled public event, or the treatment given to
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Why should you offer voluntary benefit plans for employee only or dependent only?
Today, many Americans obtain affordable insurance through their employers. However, with the steady increase in premiums many employers cannot afford the contribution required by their health insurance
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Legal Plans: As Simple As Collecting Paper
State Attorneys General and Insurance Commissioners, the American Bar Association, even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce all agree: pre-paid legal programs are a real need for the American consumer today. With such unanimous and credible endorsement, the insurance industry has taken notice.
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Experience the Benefit of Voluntary Benefits
As healthcare costs continue to rise, so has the demand for voluntary benefits. Since many employers find it increasingly difficult to provide employees with a complete benefit package, and employees need new ways to
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Who Said They Have Not Read a Good Employee Benefits Book Lately
Veteran HR employee benefits writer, Leah Shepherd, teamed up with Robert Arnoff, an employee benefits adviser, to write The 3R-s of Employee Benefits: Recruiting, Retention,
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Health Care and Telemedicine
Telemedicine is the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment and the transfer of medical data through interactive audio, video or data communications
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Understanding Your Professional Liability Exposures
n today’s increasingly litigious environment, no profession is safe from the threat of a lawsuit. Given the sophistication and proliferation of products now available in the marketplace today
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Identity Theft – Yes it’s Real and it Can Happen to You!
It’s 8:00 a.m. Monday morning. The office phone rings and it’s your executive assistant’s husband calling. “Hi! I’m sorry, but Sally won’t be in today, she was just arrested for check forgery,
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The Direction of Voluntary Benefits and the Voluntary Benefits Association
Currently it looks like Obama’s healthcare reform is only 4 votes shy of getting approved by the Senate. There are many that are very scared of Obama’s healthcare reform because if a public
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Social Entrepreneurship
“Let her gather grain right among the sheaves without stopping her. And pull out some heads of barley from the bundles and drop them on purpose for her.” From the story of Boaz,
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