NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS SIGNS ON WITH ASSURANT AFFINITY.

The NCTM, with more than 100,000 members nationwide, signs on with Assurant Affinity and Forrest T. Jones & Company, leaders in providing comprehensive insurance solutions to associations.  "We are certainly very pleased with the addition of NCTM to our client base", says Jay Barnes, Vice President of Assurant Affinity. "NCTM is an outstanding association with a long history of satisfying their members' needs. We look forward to developing our relationship and working to ensure their members have the health insurance coverage they need." 

This new relationship will provide comprehensive health insurance options to all members of NCTM, including Health Savings Accounts.

NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SIGNS ON WITH ASSURANT HEALTH.

The NSBA inks deal with Assurant Health to provide individual and small group health plans to their 150,000 small business members.  Plans include HSAs (health savings accounts), PPO copay plans, Short Term Medical, and Group Health Insurance Plans.  For a quote from Assurant Health, call us direct at 866-633-6322.

TRUST FOR INSURING EDUCATORS (TIE) & FORREST T. JONES & COMPANY CHOOSE JLBG HEALTH - ASSURANT AFFINITY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS  

JLBG Health - Assurant Affinity is pleased to announce Forrest T. Jones & Company, Inc. (FTJ), a leading association insurance administrator, has chosen us to provide health insurance plan opportunities to the Trust for Insuring Educators (TIE) — a group comprised of 60 educational associations with more than 1.5 million individual members. 

Throughout the years, FTJ has worked hand-in-hand with TIE in adding value to member programs through quality insurance products and superior customer service. JLBG Health - Assurant Affinity looks forward to continuing that tradition with comprehensive insurance solutions.

Legislation expands availability of HSAs to benefit American consumers.  Fortis Health currently offers a diverse portfolio of consumer-choice product and plan designs Fortis Health will be offering HSA products for individuals and small groups January 1, 2004. 

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Although high-deductible plans would have been a last resort for most employers just a few years ago, they increasingly are becoming the norm for small businesses, many of which can no longer afford the premiums on zero- or low-deductible policies.

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Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) drew strong interest from agents, providers and consumers as alternative solutions for double-digit increases in healthcare costs at the recent Healthcare Symposium of the Iowa Association of Health Underwriters on Friday, September 19.

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JLBG Health, the largest national Fortis MGA, will be slowly phasing out our current domain name of fortismga.com and will be replacing it with jlbghealth.com.  The total phase out will be complete by January 1st, 2004.

Our decision to change our corporate domain name will more directly relate to our online business development efforts while also being more representative of our existing national marketing campaigns.

To learn about additional features of our new online domain and business development initiatives, please contact Jay Barnes, VP of Business Development, at 800-436-7847, ext. 229.

The Fortis MGA Affinity Group made strong headway during the month of September, signing contracts with 12 national associations representing more than 450,000 members, said Jay Barnes, VP of Business Development and the creator of Fortis MGA Affinity Group Solutions.

For the fourth straight year, Illinois insurers are poised to slap companies with double-digit hikes in health insurance premiums, forcing consumers to pony up more to see a doctor or get prescriptions filled.

Fortis Health, the oldest national health insurer and leading provider of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), announces its support of the Health Savings Account Availability Act, introduced today by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA).

In this league, Fortis ranks 30th in Europe and 73rd worldwide. In the sector ‘banks, commercial and savings’, Fortis comes 6th, above J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC Holdings and Crédit Agricole. (Source : Fortune)

Fortis Health has selected the nation's leading pharmacy benefit manager, Medco Health, to administer your prescription drug benefits effective July 1, 2003. With Medco Health, you'll enjoy access to more services and pharmacy locations.

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Jay Barnes, Vice President Of Business Development for the Fortis MGA Offices, was recently quoted throughout an article on Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) in the Business section of the Chicago Tribune.

Click here to read the article on HRAs and how they are enabling small business to provide their employees with comprehensive health insurance in a tough economy.  

Fortis Health has entered into a national marketing alliance with Mutual of Omaha.  Mutual of Omaha is ceasing sales of its individual medical policies in all states, and will not renew most of its existing individual medical policies.

Learn why HRA's are gaining in popularity with employers of all sizes as health care trend factors continue to increase at double digit rates.