Closing the gap between employee needs and benefits

Employees want benefits that fit real-life needs. Learn how to align your benefits strategy with financial, mental health, and workforce expectations.

Employee Benefits

Keeping your home protected during vacation

Planning a trip? Learn simple home safety tips to protect your house from theft, fire, and water damage while you’re away on vacation.

Personal Insurance

Boost employee satisfaction with your benefits

Employee benefits play a major role in job satisfaction. Discover strategies to improve benefits engagement through better strategy, employee feedback, personalization, and communication.

Employee Benefits

10 things to evaluate for a construction group captive

Learn the 10 key factors contractors should evaluate when comparing construction group captives, including risk sharing, limits, diversification, and costs.

Business Insurance

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Southern Minnesota Employer Healthcare Strategy Summit

Employers across southern Minnesota are facing unprecedented healthcare cost increases while employees struggle with access to timely, affordable care-even in regions near world-class systems like Mayo Clinic. Join fellow business owners and HR leaders for the Southern Minnesota Employer Healthcare Strategy Summit, where industry experts will share practical, actionable strategies to help employers better manage healthcare costs, meet new compliance requirements, and explore innovative care models that improve employee access and outcomes. This focused session will provide insights you can bring back immediately to strengthen your organization's health plan strategy.

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Planning and managing events

As an event organizer, how can you effectively do your job while dealing with the worrying fact that you will be accountable for health and safety slip-ups? Simple: You can keep employees, contractors and members of the public safe at your event by following some easy-to-adopt guidance.

Personal Insurance

Personal

Construction industry leads others in slips, trips and falls

Slips, trips and falls are a leading cause of insurance claims for businesses, affecting virtually every industry. A look inside Advisen’s database shows which industries and states have the highest frequency and severity of these claims.

Business Insurance

Business

National hurricane preparedness week 2021

National Hurricane Preparedness Week—which is scheduled for May 9-15 this year—encourages individuals to evaluate their personal hurricane risks and implement measures to keep themselves and their homes protected during a hurricane. As the 2021 hurricane season approaches, prepare yourself and your household with these tips.

Business Insurance

Business

DOL issues FAQs about American Rescue Plan's COBRA subsidy

On April 7, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor issued answers to frequently asked questions about the American Rescue Plan Act’s premium assistance for health insurance continuation coverage under COBRA and similar state mini-COBRA programs. The DOL’s FAQs are reprinted in this Compliance Bulletin.

Employee Benefits

Benefits

Health plan rules - treating employees differently

Employers may treat employees differently, as long as they are not violating federal rules that prohibit discrimination in favor of highly compensated employees. These rules currently apply to self-insured health plans that allow employees to pay their premiums on a pre-tax basis.

Employee Benefits

Benefits

IRS publishes guidance for 2021 employee retention credit (Q1/Q2)

On April 2, the IRS published Notice 2021-23 to provide guidance for claiming the employee retention credit (ERC) for the first two quarters of 2021.

Employee Benefits

Benefits

DOL issues model notices, FAQs for COBRA subsidy in the ARPA

On April 7, the US DOL issued FAQs and model notices for the COBRA premium assistance provisiions of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) which provides a 100% subsidy for employer-sponsored group health insurance continued under COBRA for eligible individuals.

Employee Benefits

Benefits

2021 Market outlook: general liability insurance

As worsening social inflation concerns, surging medical expenses and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continue to contribute to a rise in liability claim frequency and severity, the general liability market has preceded to harden.

Business Insurance

Business

Financial Wellness 101: how much do you know about your retirement plan?

Your employer provides you with a retirement plan for you to save money in, tax-deferred, for the day you bid your career farewell and enter into retirement. How well do you know your plan?