Benefits Strategy

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (295+ words) Benefits now account for exactly 30 percent of what private-sector employers pay per hour worked - $14.07 of a $46.89 total, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC) report for June. Wages made up the remaining 70 percent, at…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1067+ words) US employers are absorbing record cost pressures rather than passing them on to workers but unless they fix a deepening benefits literacy crisis, the extra coverage they are stacking to bridge affordability gaps will go largely unused. Nicole Negvesky, Executive…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (848+ words) US employers are spending up to $20,000 per employee each year on health plans but investing less than $10 per employee communicating those benefits. John Tournet, senior vice president of benefits consulting at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in Chicago, says that imbalance is…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (356+ words) Insurance Business Alliant adds a benefits director who spent 38 years on the employer's side of the table Rick George ran benefits for one of America's largest trucking and logistics companies for nearly four decades Alliant Insurance Services has appointed Rick…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (400+ words) EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has promoted Adam Okun (pictured) to president of its national employee benefits practice. The move puts pharmacy consulting at the center of the firm's strategy heading into one of the costliest benefits renewal cycles in years....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (223+ words) Marietta Daily Journal Sterling Seacrest Pritchard was recently named to The Hanover Insurance Group’s President’s Club. Cumberland-based Sterling Seacrest Pritchard was recently named to The Hanover Insurance Group’s President’s Club, an elite group of independent insurance…...