CO2 Shortage Underscores Brewers’ Insurance Needs

August 24, 2022
Prior to 2022, the term “craft beverage” and “Mississippi” were unlikely to pass the lips of most beer lovers in the same sentence. In a 2019 state-by-state ranking by the online publication The Beer Connoisseur, Mississippi placed dead last for craft brews. More recently,... Find out more »

Trade Credit Insurance: When Your Success Is Tied to an Unfulfilled Promise

August 18, 2022
Major League Baseball’s trade deadline passed last month, with the swapping of longtime fan favorites like Padre-turned-Red Sox Eric Hosmer and emerging superstars such as National-turned-Padre Juan Soto reminding us that professional baseball is very much a business. While some transactions... Find out more »

Legal Alert: Agencies Issue Guidance Regarding Coverage of Family Planning Services and Emergency Contraceptives Under the Affordable Care Act After Dobbs

August 12, 2022
On July 28, 2022, the DOL, HHS and the IRS (collectively, the “Agencies”) released FAQs About Affordable Care Act Implementation Part 54, which, according to the Agencies, is intended to make it clear that, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs, the ACA’s... Find out more »

Legal Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2023

August 8, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2022-34, which contains the inflation-adjusted amounts for 2023 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility... Find out more »

Accountability in Construction: Contractual Risk Transfer

August 5, 2022
Even the plainest-looking commercial or residential building typically is the product of collaborative efforts by designers and skilled tradespeople — carpenters, masons, electricians, plumbers, drywallers, roofers and more. To function as a modern, structurally sound and safe edifice, the... Find out more »

Lumity, Inc. Joins Alera Group in Latest Acquisition

August 4, 2022
Alera Group, a top independent national insurance and wealth services firm, announced today the acquisition of Lumity, Inc., a data-driven consulting company providing a modern solution for better benefits and bringing transparency and accountability to the health insurance ecosystem. “At... Find out more »

Alera Group Acquires Jowers-Sklar Insurance

August 3, 2022
Alera Group, a top independent, national insurance and wealth services firm, today announced the acquisition of Jowers-Sklar Insurance, an independent insurance agency specializing in Property & Casualty insurance with customers throughout Georgia and the Southeast. “At Jowers-Sklar... Find out more »

HR Resources: Jump Aboard the Benefits Benchmarking Bandwagon

“Demographic data and benchmarking should inform your recruitment and retention goals and strategy.” By the time the popular publication BenefitsPRO published those words in the July 15 article “Using data to better understand employees’ benefits priorities,”... Find out more »

Alera Group Wealth Services Acquires Johnson Brunetti

August 1, 2022
Acquisition adds $1.5 billion to RIA assets under management, offices in Northeast and Georgia Alera Group Wealth Services, a division of Alera Group, a top independent, national insurance and wealth services firm, today announced the acquisition of Johnson Brunetti, a... Find out more »