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Raising the Bar in Benefits and Leadership: Highlights from the Accelerent Breakfast

This morning at the Accelerent Breakfast, Benefit Commerce Group was proud to be represented by Stacy Ketcham, VP and Senior Client Executive, shared highlights from our 12th Annual Employee Benefits Benchmarking & HR Symposium. The event’s keynote, Dan Clark, Hall of Fame speaker, bestselling author, and global expert on leadership, delivered an unforgettable message, all without a single slide.

June 13, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Our 2025 AZ Benefits & HR Symposium: Our Biggest and Best Yet!

The 12th Annual Arizona Employee Benefits Benchmarking, Healthcare & HR Symposium, held on June 6, 2025, was our most impactful event to date. Nearly 500 HR professionals, CFOs, and business leaders gathered at the Arizona Biltmore to explore powerful insights from our statewide benchmarking survey and to discuss timely strategies for managing benefits, costs, and workforce needs.

June 9, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Dale Jarrett’s Path to NASCAR Greatness

At this morning’s Accelerent / Benefit Commerce Group Breakfast at Phoenix International Raceway, over 400 attendees had the privilege of hearing NASCAR legend Dale Jarrett share his powerful journey—one he humbly referred to as a “22-Year Overnight Success Story.”

April 11, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: An Extraordinary Story of Leadership and Duty

On January 31, the Phoenix division of Accelerent hosted an unforgettable breakfast event that brought together local business leaders for a morning of insight, inspiration, and reflection. Benefit Commerce Group, as the proud Title Sponsor of the Phoenix division, was thrilled to support this impactful gathering that featured Colonel Mark Tillman, the former pilot of Air Force One, as the keynote speaker.

February 4, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Strategies to Instill Integrity and Mitigate Crisis – Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Ret.)

This morning's Accelerent breakfast featuring Commander Kirk Lippold. As the commanding officer of the USS Cole during the 2000 terrorist attack in Yemen, Commander Lippold shared powerful leadership strategies drawn from his experience leading his crew through a crisis.

November 22, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Turning hardships into victories – Noelle Pikus Pace

Following the amazing Summer Olympics just a couple of months ago, it was excellent timing to have an Olympian speaker at this morning’s Accelerent/BCG Breakfast Event, held at Warehouse215.

September 27, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Employee Weight Loss Strategies & GLP-1 Medications: Navigating the New Era

As a corporate wellness professional with over 15 years of experience, I’ve witnessed firsthand the growing emphasis on weight loss within both individual and corporate settings. Despite best efforts, the obesity rate in the U.S. continues to climb. Currently, 42% of Americans have a BMI of 30 or higher, and the economic impact of obesity exceeds $1.4 trillion annually, according to a recent Milken Institute report.

August 29, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Go ‘All In’ on What’s Important to You – Gian Paul Gonzalez

Gian Paul Gonzalez is widely recognized for inspiring the New York Giants to their most recent Super Bowl victory with the phrase “All In.” He brought that concept to life at this morning’s Accelerent/BCG Breakfast Event, held at Ability360.

June 14, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Our 2024 AZ Benefits & HR Symposium—A Big Success!

Our 11th Annual AZ Benefits Benchmarking, Healthcare & HR Symposium on June 6th was a great opportunity for employers to review the benchmarking data and new trends and strategies for employee benefits. They also heard from our keynote speaker about mastering the hybrid work environment by adopting new methods of communication and connection.

June 6, 2024

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Property and Casualty

Alera Group’s 2025 Property and Casualty Market Update

Alera Group’s 2025 Property and Casualty Market Update, designed as a bridge between Alera Group’s annual Market Outlooks — provides insight into pricing, coverage availability, market capacity and underwriting trends for the balance of 2025.

August 1, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Legal Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2026

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2025-25, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2026 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility provisions and premium tax credit program.

July 23, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Legal Alert: Enforcement of the HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rule Vacated Nationwide

On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated a significant portion of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (“Final Rule”), which was implemented on April 24, 2024, on a nationwide basis. The Final Rule, which was implemented in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (effectively overturning Roe v. Wade), was intended to protect the ability of individuals to receive reproductive health care when the care is provided lawfully under the circumstances without risk of an individual’s identity or health information being disclosed for purposes of state criminal, civil or administrative investigations (or for imposing liability related to lawfully providing or obtaining reproductive healthcare).

July 21, 2025

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