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Employers Wrestling with Covering Weight-Loss Drugs

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The explosion in demand for new, costly and highly effective weight-loss and diabetes drugs is poised to play an outsized role in increasing the cost of health care, and in turn, health insurance in America. While Ozempic has not been approved for weight loss, doctors commonly use it off-label for weight loss as well.

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Thirteen Miscellaneous Financial Nuggets from Recent Webinars

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Below is a list, in no particular order, of insights, facts, and recommendations that stood out to me as being original, significant, and/or useful: New Definition of Retirement- The word “retire” does not necessarily mean “stop working.” What, That’s It? (a Widowhood (loss of someone’s “co-pilot”). Adult Caregiving, and 6.

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New Regulations Aimed at ‘Fixing’ California’s Property Insurance Market Crisis

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New Regulations Aimed at ‘Fixing’ California’s Property Insurance Market Crisis With the California commercial property and homeowner’s insurance markets increasingly stressed with fewer and fewer insurers willing to write policies in the Golden State, the insurance commissioner has floated a plan aimed at easing the crisis.

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Benefits Planning 101: The Risks of a Self-Funded Policy

Total Employee Benefits

In our last blog post , we talked about the basics of self-funded policies and their benefits. A Quick Recap: What is a Self-funded policy? A fully insured plan on the other hand is what many companies opt to do in order to avoid bearing all that risk themselves. But first, let’s do a quick review. Financial Risk.

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Commercial Auto Insurance Rates Spiking

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Skyrocketing claims costs and higher accident rates are pressuring the commercial auto insurance market, as insurers impose increasingly larger rate hikes and more are pulling out of the market or restricting who they will cover. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau , there were 64,000 such theft claims in the U.S.

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Benefits Planning 101: The Benefits of a Self-Funded Policy

Total Employee Benefits

Read on for the basics of self-funded benefits plans- what they are, how they are set up, and how they can benefit your company. What is a self-funded benefit plan? Under this arrangement, the employer pays the claims as they arise instead of paying monthly premiums as with a fully insured benefit plan. Flexibility and Control.

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Delays, Higher Insurance Costs Burden Owners, Contractors

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Increasing construction project delays are combining with a hardening market for builder’s risk and liability insurance to create headaches for project owners and contractors. Owners need to understand the insurance marketplace and take steps in advance to keep insurance issues from throwing a monkey wrench into a project.