Posted on Sep 28, 2021
As we turned the corner from 2020 to 2021, many of us looked forward with optimism. Businesses had regained some sense of footing, socially we’d achieved a certain comfort level with how to operate, and a vaccine for all was on the horizon. We’d hoped that uncertainty...
Posted on Aug 31, 2021
On August 31st, the Social Security Board of Trustees released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds. This year’s report is notable for its lengthy delay in getting released (the report is due by April 1st every year)...
Posted on Aug 31, 2021
Veterans of disability insurance will likely remember the uncertainty and disruption the industry experienced in the 1990s due to the rise of claims citing functional somatic syndrome (FSS), such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, irritable bowel...
Posted on Aug 10, 2021
Written by Adam Compton, Senior Vice President of Client Services, Hays Companies As we seek to make sense of absence and other benefits that serve to manage risk, it is critical that we no longer consider them each in a silo, but rather as part of an integrated...
Posted on Jul 26, 2021
Written by Mark Sawyer, CLU, VP of Claim Performance Solutions Periodically throughout the past year, Brown & Brown Absence Services Group has shared our perspective on how and to what extent we believe COVID-19 will impact both the short-term disability (STD) and...
Posted on Jul 12, 2021
Late Friday afternoon, news broke that Andrew Saul, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), was removed from his role by President Joe Biden. Biden had asked for Saul’s resignation, as well as that of Deputy Commissioner, David Black. While Black did...
