Employers Can Stop Worrying on Health By Joe Markland Apple's HealthKit is the final piece to the puzzle: Healthcare providers will take the risk related to employees' health.
A Physician's View of 'Return to Work' By Mark Hyman Most doctors have little or no training in how to evaluate a patient's ability to work. They should begin by thinking through the potential risks.
Wellness Industry's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week By Al Lewis Vik Khanna There was the first-ever lay media feeding frenzy on wellness.
To Hellness With Wellness By Barry Thompson Current wellness plans are absurd, but lessons from disease management (and human nature) point to a narrower approach -- and success.
End of Health Insurers As We Know Them By Joe Markland Employers will hand health risk off to employees, who will control their own insurance. Brokers should do eight things to prepare.
A Call to Action on Mental Health By Sally Spencer-Thomas “The first step in prevention is creating an environment where people can talk about [mental health and suicide], including the workplace."
Private Exchanges: Panacea or Problem? By Cynthia Marcotte Stamer Employers must be careful about paying for individuals' policies through a public health insurance exchange.
CEOs Defy Common Sense on Wellness By Al Lewis Vik Khanna Businesses are demanding that Obama halt legal actions, even though it's clear that conventional workplace wellness has failed.
Lemonade's 'Synthetic Agent' Nonsense By Matteo Carbone Desperate for growth, Lemonade produces another howler: A lender receiving a 16% interest rate is presented as a (synthetic) agent.
Auto Insurance in an Existential Crisis By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers The 125-year-old, $300 billion U.S. auto insurance industry is caught between runaway inflation and strained consumer wallets.
The Promise of Continuous Underwriting By Bill Deemer Bobby Touran Typically, a risk is underwritten, bound... and forgotten. But new streams of data and automation allow for continuous underwriting.
Convergence and the Insurance Ecosystem By Stephen Applebaum Alan Demers Companies must anticipate the future, innovate beyond their core and transform their capabilities as rapidly as technology allows.