Cost concerns rise, but plan sponsors are missing longer-term opportunities: Q2 2025 People Solutions Market Update
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Emerging costs are higher than expected: Q3 2025 People Solutions Market Update
Healthcare costs will remain higher than historical norms While cost trends have steadied as expected, they’ve stabilized over the past couple of years at a higher level than the industry had hoped, with no expectations of a decline in the coming ye …
Health plan cost pressures continue in 2025: People Solutions Market Update Q1 2025
Plan sponsors face growing pressures Due to high increases in healthcare costs and recent lawsuits directed toward employer plans, plan sponsors face growing pressure to manage their plan costs effectively. While there is a spectrum of strategies ava …
Cost concerns rise, but plan sponsors are missing longer-term opportunities: Q2 2025 Peopl …
With benefit plan costs continuing to rise, plan sponsors are under growing pressure to make plan changes. Despite mounting pressure, the 2025 Lockton National Benefits Survey found that plan sponsors have been hesitant to make strategic cost-saving …
Fallout from Supreme Court’s Cunningham ruling continues to reshape fiduciary liability la …
The first lower court ruling is in after a landmark Supreme Court ruling that reshaped the legal landscape for fiduciary liability under ERISA, easing the path for plaintiffs to bring claims against retirement plan sponsors and fiduciaries. With more …
20 years since Hurricane Katrina: Insurance, modeling, and risk lessons and opportunities
Amid a barrage of hurricanes in 2005 — which still ranks among the most significant years for natural catastrophes in history — one storm stole the spotlight: Hurricane Katrina. Slamming into the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29 as a Category 3 hurricane …
2025 Trend outlook shows little healthcare cost relief in sight
Medical and pharmacy trend reached 8.1% in 2024 Medical and pharmacy trends have returned to a more stable level after previous volatility, slowing down to 8.1% compared to 10.2% the year prior. Despite this stabilization, healthcare costs are expec …
