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Industry Strong — December 9, 2020

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New This Week — December 9, 2020

▶Upcoming Webinar: Workplace Benefits Quarterly Review

▶LIMRA Unplugged: How Are Employers Adapting Workplace Benefits Under COVID-19?

▶Professional Development: Craving Up-to-Date Compliance Knowledge?

▶Workplace Benefits Research: Employer Perspective on Paid Family and Medical Leave: How to Improve the Employer Experience

▶Workplace Benefits Research: Auto-Enrollment in Nonmedical Insurance Benefits: Simplifying the Experience and Ensuring Peace of Mind

▶COVID-19 Research: COVID-19 and Workplace Benefits: New Perspectives

▶Featured Publication: MarketFacts Issue #3 — A New World of Work

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Upcoming Webinars

The Workplace Benefits Report

12/16/2020 1 - 1:30 p.m. ET

Carriers and other workplace benefits companies have faced unique headwinds in 2020. Please join Pat Leary, corporate vice president, workplace benefits research, as he reviews third quarter workplace insurance benefits sales and discusses the outlook heading into 2021.

On Demand Webinars

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COVID-19 & Employer Approaches to Workplace Benefits

8/13/2020 1 - 1:30 p.m. EDT

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting the U.S. business market and has the potential to substantially impact the workplace benefits industry.

How Can We Help You? Employers Share Their Experiences and Expectations for Voluntary Benefits

5/14/2020 2 - 2:30 p.m. EDT

Employers have many factors to consider when choosing a voluntary benefits carrier, and their expectations of their carriers are high.

Unplugged

 

COVID-19 has changed the world, and that includes the world of employee benefits. Worries about short- and long-term financial challenges have prompted some employers to re-examine their benefits program.

Workplace Benefits Research

How Can We Help You: The Voluntary Benefits Series

What do employers want from their voluntary benefits carriers?

Ready or Not? Employer Response to the Evolving Paid Family Leave Landscape

Learn about employers’ attitudes and future considerations concerning paid family leave programs.

Employer Perspectives on Paid Family and Medical Leave: How to Improve the Employer Experience

Learn about employers’ greatest needs regarding paid family and medical leave.

Auto-Enrollment in Nonmedical Insurance Benefits: Simplifying the Experience and Ensuring Peace of Mind

Find out which factors influence employers’ perceptions of auto-enrollment and how to increase receptivity.

Auto-Enrollment in Nonmedical Insurance Benefits: Has Its Time Come?

What are employees’ attitudes and possible future behaviors as they relate to auto-enrollment in nonmedical insurance benefits?

Beyond the Spreadsheet: Which Benefit Features Really Matter to Employees?

Learn about employees' views of various product features for accident, critical illness, and life insurance benefits.

Straight Talk: Employee Benefit Brokers Discuss the Factors That Most Influence Carrier Recommendations and Their Perspectives on a Changing Market

What do employee benefit brokers consider most important in recommending workplace benefit carriers to their clients?

Hospital Indemnity Insurance: U.S. Product Profiles

How does your company's hospital indemnity product compare to others on the market?

Canadian Workplace Benefits Research

Canadian Employers: Employee Benefits and Benefits Strategy Series

Designing and investing in an effective benefits program takes significant administrative and financial resources. The success of any chosen path will depend on the clarity of its objectives and the precision of its strategy.

Canadian Group Life and Health Insurance Sales

Don't miss the latest sales trends in the Canadian group insurance market for life, long-term disability, and other types of health insurance.

Benefits-Related COVID-19 Research

COVID-19 and Workplace Benefits: New Perspectives

This survey examined employees’ views on their insurance and related benefits in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 and Workplace Benefits: Sales and Enrollment, 3rd Quarter Update

How is COVID-19 impacting workplace benefit sales and enrollment practices in the second half of 2020?

The Effect of COVID-19 on Experience-Rated Group Business

How is COVID-19 impacting the experience-rating of group insurance products?

Impact of COVID-19 on Employers’ Approaches to Workplace Benefits

How is COVID-19 influencing employers’ plans for their insurance benefits programs?

Employee Communication With Benefits Providers During COVID-19

Find out how employees feel about their benefits-related interactions with their employers during COVID-19.

COVID-19 and Workplace Benefits: Sales, Underwriting, and Enrollment

How is COVID-19 impacting workplace benefit sales, enrollments, and underwriting?

Professional Development

Craving Up-to-Date Compliance Knowledge?

Learn more about relevant compliance topics with the Certificate in Regulatory Compliance Essentials! With new content on FINRA rules and the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest, AIRC 411 —The Regulatory Environment for Life Insurance provides the knowledge you need to feel secure working in today’s uncertain operating environment. AIRC 421 — Regulation of Life Insurance Products, Sales, and Operations now covers the SECURE Act, Reg 187, Reg BI, and more, to help you serve customers with confidence. Details and enroll.

Focus on Customers in the New Year

Learning Live: Customer Experience is a two-hour, virtual session designed to help non-customer-facing employees understand what customer experience (CX) means for insurance companies. In our interactive virtual classroom, an expert instructor explains why CX is essential today, leads discussion and answers your questions. Learning Live: Customer Experience January 20, 2021, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET. Details and register.

Featured Publication

LIMRA MarketFacts Number 3, 2020

MarketFacts Number 3-2020 is a Special Issue, focusing on Workplace Benefits trends in financial services, as well as COVID-19 research updates and industry impact and response.

Featured Solution

LIMRA Data Exchange (LDEx) Standards

Making the process faster with standards. The LIMRA Data Exchange (LDEx) Standards are for insurance carriers and benefits administration technology companies looking to reduce errors, improve customer experience, and increase speed to market.

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