In the Long Run: What Comes After Open Enrollment?
Think of implementing your organization’s employee benefits program as leading a marathon team. First, you prepare through regular training sessions, aided by internal communications in the weeks and months leading up to Open Enrollment. Next comes the grind of Open Enrollment itself —... Find out more »
Professional Liability Insurance: Improved Market for Critical Coverage
If your livelihood depends on providing professional services or counsel, Professional Liability Insurance is essential protection for your career and assets in case of mistakes or allegations of negligence. This coverage, which transfers reputational risk from the professional to the... Find out more »
Why Home and Auto Insurance Rates Are Rising and What You Can Do About It
Climate change is bringing more to the United States than turbulent storms and record-breaking temperatures. The striking shifts in our weather are also having a dramatic impact on personal lines of property and casualty (P&C) insurance such as Home and Auto — especially for certain... Find out more »
P&C Market Update: Market Less Volatile, but Inflation, Catastrophic Weather Remain Factors
Deerfield, IL (September 6, 2023) – An analysis updating Alera Group’s 2023 Property and Casualty Market Outlook finds the industry is experiencing both stability and challenges. There is less volatility, with prices moderating and coverage stabilizing across most lines of business.... Find out more »
Make risk management and insurance decisions with Alera Group’s ‘P&C Market Update’
In a volatile Property and Casualty Insurance market, keeping up to date on pricing, availability and other variables is critical to your protection and your bottom line. That’s why Alera Group is releasing our Property and Casualty Market Update, an analysis of multiple lines of P&C... Find out more »
Alera Group Names Chief Investment Officer for Wealth Services and Retirement Plan Services Divisions
B.J. Webster assumes newly created role
Deerfield, IL (September 5, 2023) — Alera Group, a top independent national insurance and financial services firm, announced the creation of a new chief investment officer (CIO) role for its Wealth Services and Retirement Plan Services divisions.... Find out more »
Your Checklist for a Trouble-Free Open Enrollment
For many human resource professionals, the post-Labor Day period leading up to and including employee benefits Open Enrollment is a time of dread. It should be a time of preparation. Do the hard work in September and October, and your organization’s Open Enrollment should run smoothly come... Find out more »
Legal Alert: Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Hands Down a Big Win for ERISA Preemption
After several failed attempts by pharmacy benefit managers (“PBM”) to challenge state laws regulating PBMs, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (in Pharmaceutical Care Management Association v. Mulready) handed down a big win for PBMs and, by extension, self-funded ERISA plans, when it... Find out more »
Legal Alert: Illinois Passes Law Protecting Pay and Benefits for Temporary Workers and Day Laborers
Illinois recently passed a new law and implemented emergency regulations to protect day and temporary laborers (collectively “temporary workers”) and require day and temporary labor service agencies (collectively “temporary agencies”) to provide equal pay and equal... Find out more »
Legal Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2024
This alert is of interest to all applicable large employers (ALEs) – generally, those with at least 50 full-time equivalent employees.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2023-29, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2024 used to determine whether... Find out more »
