Rhonda Randall, D.O., chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, will join a panel of esteemed experts at the 2012 Aging in America Conference to discuss baby boomers impact on Medicare.

Benefit plans specially designed by employers for key employees and executives are often times intended to help recruit, retain and reward. These plans provide financial benefits, specifically wealth accumulation and death benefit protection.

There have been many articles addressing the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new 408(b)(2) and 404(a)(5) regulations, most of which have focused on the rules’ impact on retirement plan vendors.

According to LIMRA, the trade group for insurance and financial services companies, more than 57 percent of U.S. employers now offer voluntary benefits to their employees, and the market for voluntary benefits has remained steady for the past four years despite the down economy.

Brokers now have another life insurance product to offer their clients. With life insurance ownership at an all-time low in the U.S., Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company’s new group term life product offers affordable coverage for their clients’ employees.