Human Resources: Accident

Buck Consultants Announces Total Rewards InSight Communication Tool
Buck Consultants announced today the launch of Total Rewards InSight, an enhanced total rewards communication solution that provides unique information views and human resource management tools for all key stakeholders.

COLONIAL SUPPLEMENTAL INSURANCE JUMPS IN NATIONAL WORKSITE SALES RANKINGS
Higher sales lead to record-setting premium processing and use of Colonial´s E-services for benefits management

Buck Consultants announced today that it has been selected by the Milwaukee County Retirement System to provide actuarial and retirement consulting services.
Buck Consultants to Provide Milwaukee County With Retirement Plan Services

Workscape Closes First Quarter of 2006 with Record- Breaking Sales and Accomplishments
- Leading Provider of Outsourced Benefits and Workforce Management Solutions Generates Sales Momentum from New Client Wins and Expanded Client Relationships -

Forty-Five Percent Believe Employers Should be Required to Provide Employee Health Care Benefits
What role should employers play in ensuring that their employee's lives are covered? What role should employees play in taking their turn at the oars? That is exactly what Success Performance Solutions readers of its weekly newsletter The Total View during the month of April.

Child Abduction, Home Invasion Insurance Added to Group-Benefits Package
"With FBI reports of an American victimized by burglary every 15 seconds and countless child abduction stories circulating through the media, family protection and security are very real concerns for many Americans," said James Hamilton, senior vice president, Chubb & Son, and North American manager for Chubb Accident & Health.

HRAmerica releases "Top HR Trends in 2006" Report
Survey-based research provides best practices, competitive information on HR outsourcing.

EMPLOYEASE CLOSES FISCAL Q3 2006 WITH 55% YEAR OVER YEAR REVENUE GROWTH
Achieves 34th Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth

Travis Software Corp., announced a 99.9% Service Level Agreement to its WebCOBRA.com customers.
Few, if any, on-demand COBRA software vendors guarantee uptime or provide any Service Level Agreements (SLA) for their customers.

Watson WyattWorldwide is warning that a new policy announced yesterday by theDepartment of Energy (DOE) undermines government contractors' ability to provide guaranteed retirement benefits to their workers.
According to a press release published by DOE on April 27, the agency willno longer reimburse the expenses associated with defined benefit pensioncoverage "for new contractor employees."

EMPLOYERS TAKE A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
Asparity Decision Solutions announces the release of SimHR, an online suite of market research tools that enables companies to design and price health plan offerings that fulfill employee personal and financial needs, while controlling corporate health care costs.

ASPARITY ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF OPERATIONAL RISK TECHNOLOGY
Asparity has delivered decision support and data solutions for employee benefits to some of the largest organizations in the world since 1999.

Employease Partners with Google to Offer Google OneBox for Enterprise Module
Module Enables Fast and Secure Access to Real-Time Employee Information from the Familiar Google Search Box

HighRoads Launches Benefits Lifecycle Management 2006
New Features Ease Management of Employee Benefits Plans, Lowering CostsWhile Sustaining Quality

IT'S EASIER FOR EMPLOYEES TO GET
New Colonial Supplemental Insurance group voluntary cancer product enhances an employer´s benefits program with a popular consumer benefit offered with no health questions.

Sometimes Fighting is Part of the Job
An employee starts a fight on the job, gets injured, and files for workers' comp benefits. Outrageous, you say! But what if fighting is part of his job and his boss told him to do it? Welcome to the wild world of professional hockey; from M. Lee Smith.

Intoxication as a Defense in Workers' Compensation Claims
When is intoxication a defense in MN workers´ compensation claims? Â Rarely, as demonstrated by a Workers´ Compensation Court of Appeals reversal of the Compensation Judge´s decision to deny benefits based on that defense, writes Kathleen Bray.

WORKERS HAVE EASIER ACCESS TO CANCER INSURANCE
Colonial Supplemental Insurance´s individual cancer product requires a policyholder to be cancer-free for only five years

HighRoads Announces $8 Million in Series-B Financing
Round Reflects Market Imperative for Solutions and Services that Lower Employee Health & Welfare Costs