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Our Latest Spotlight Reports

Spotlight Reports provide carriers and other insurance professionals with up-to-date, market-sensitive information – on a targeted and cost-effective basis – that can be used to build, refine, or even confirm their business strategies. This includes a variety of "hot" industry information on consumers, distributors, products, competitors, and more.

2008 Limited Benefit Medical Plans

The objective of this report is to help carriers stay current on the evolving limited benefit medical market. The report looks at plan benefits, underwriting practices, billing, and commissions. It also gives an overview of the limited benefit market.

2008 Voluntary Short-Term Disability Plans

The objective of this report is to help carriers stay current on the ever-changing voluntary STD market by examining carrier best practices in the areas of product features and benefits, underwriting guidelines, and administrative practices.

Medical Brokers and Voluntary

This report looks at the role worksite marketing and voluntary benefits play for the medical broker. Data in the report comes from interviews with over 640 medical brokers.

Voluntary Marketing Practices 2008

The report examines the marketing practices of 22 voluntary carriers, including the structure and organization of the marketing department, advertising and branding, customer marketing, Internet and website marketing, etc.

Online or Not? Voluntary Carriers’ Use of the Web

The report examines the web capabilities (broker, employer, and employee) of 16 voluntary insurance carriers.

Voluntary Products and the Small Business Market

The report analyzes carrier opportunities for selling voluntary benefits in the small employer market. This includes those cases with at least 10 but fewer than 100 employees.

Regional Sales Rep. Compensation Study

The purpose of this study was to take a closer look at the sales reps’ compensation practices among various companies in the market. Data was gathered from 38 companies.

Exploring theVoluntary Market Opportunity for Very Large Cases

Data in the report comes from several different Eastbridge studies and includes both qualitative and quantitative findings from employers and carriers involved in the very large case market.

Voluntary Long-Term Disability Insurance

The report examines the overall voluntary long-term disability (VLTD) market and then compares the VLTD products of fourteen carriers.

Large Commercial Lines Brokers and Voluntary Benefits

The report examines the role that worksite marketing and voluntary benefits play for large commercial agencies and, where possible, compares and contrasts this to the “traditional” employee benefit broker. It also profiles several large agencies that sell voluntary products.