Flu season slams small businesses

… expected to last into the spring, Insperity’s Marcum advises business owners to be proactive to protect staffers’ health as well as company operations. Employees should be encouraged to work at home if they’re not feeling well, and to get flu shots …

Bermuda captive insurance experts target US markets

Participants in BDA’s Chicago and Boston captive insurance forums : GM’s Al Gier, Janita Burke of Estera, Richard Daley of JLT, Rick Irvine of PwC, Leslie Robinson of BMA, Tom Kelly of KPMG; : Adam Miholic of Marsh, Jamie Sewell of Boeing, Dennis Silvia of Cedar Consulting, Bob Spencer of Baker McKenzie, Nick Warren of Willis Towers Watson, and Michael Serricchio of Marsh HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. 12, 2017 — A team of top industry experts, led by Bermuda Business Development Agency , will travel to Chicago and Boston next month to highlight the advantages of Bermuda as the world’s leading domicile for captive insurance.

Report: 37,000 Louisiana jobs at risk if Obamacare is repealed

An estimated 37,000 Louisiana jobs will be lost if Congress ends the Medicaid expansion program and premium tax credits linked to the federal Affordable Care Act, according to a new nonpartisan report. Repealing the health-care law would lead to a $639.7 million loss in state and local taxes; a $39.1 billion loss in business output; and a $21.5 billion hit to the gross state product, according to the report from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and nonprofit Commonwealth Fund.