Unum launches learning center to help brokers and employers keep up with
changes
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Unum (NYSE:UNM) has launched a website
on health care reform to help benefits professionals and businesses stay
up to date on the changes and their effects. The site offers
straightforward information and analysis through updates to health care
reform law, reports and podcasts.
“New health coverage requirements will significantly impact the way our
sales partners and customers do business,” said Jim Hettenbach, director
of market development for Unum. “Our online learning center will stay
current on the law, offering up-to-date material that will change as the
situation changes. This will be a valuable resource to help brokers and
businesses understand the opportunities and their responsibilities in
the changing landscape.”
Although Unum’s benefits offerings – such as disability, accident,
critical illness and supplemental health coverage – will not be directly
impacted by the new regulations, the company has taken a leading role in
helping the employee benefits industry evaluate the full effects of
health care reform.
“Our products complement health insurance coverage, offering working
Americans more complete financial protection against the impact of
illness or injury,” Hettenbach said. “As our customers have shared their
anxieties about health care reform, we’ve stepped in to provide as much
information and perspective as possible.”
The launch of an online tool that will be regularly updated enables Unum
to keep information current. In addition to being a source for health
care reform news and material, the site also has information on benefits
that can help employers learn how to build reform-friendly benefits
strategies.
“Disability, accident and critical illness insurance provide billions of
dollars in benefits each year to wage-earners who are sidelined because
of illness or injury,” said Hettenbach. “In this new reform environment,
there is an even greater need to educate employers and employees about
the importance of financial protection benefits and how they can be used
to help fill gaps in coverage that medical insurance does not address.”
To learn more about health care reform and its impact on today’s
employers, their workers and the benefits industry, visit Unum.com/HealthCareReform.
About Unum
Unum (www.unum.com)
is one of the leading providers of employee benefits products and
services in the United States and the United Kingdom. Through its
subsidiaries, Unum Group paid approximately $6 billion in total benefits
to customers in 2010.
Unum
Brian Baker, 423-294-7839
bbaker4@unum.com
Source: Unum