BCG Insights

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: ‘Find your passion and break your personal speed limits’ – Lyn St. James

“You have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. It’s the only way you will make progress,” legendary race car driver, Lyn St. James, said at this morning’s Accelerent/BCG Breakfast Event at the Phoenix Raceway.

April 12, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: ‘Attitude Over Everything’

Accelerent Breakfast: ‘Attitude Over Everything’ – Aaron Davis

January 26, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Transformation Expert – Michael York

Author of Becoming Uncommon and The Selling Idea, Michael York provided critical messages on personal and professional development at this morning’s Accelerent/BCG Breakfast Event, attended by hundreds of local business leaders.

November 17, 2023

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Property and Casualty

Public Sector Insurance: Navigating Challenges of Limited Resources

Public sector organizations increasingly find themselves in an environment of shrinking budgets, staffing shortages, growing hostility and rising inflation.

October 25, 2023

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Employee Benefits

In the Long Run: What Comes After Open Enrollment?

Think of implementing your organization’s employee benefits program as leading a marathon team. First, you prepare through regular training sessions, aided by internal communications in the weeks and months leading up to Open Enrollment. Next comes the grind of Open Enrollment itself — the equivalent of a marathoner’s high-mileage training runs. And then, the payoff: benefits utilization.

October 5, 2023

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Jason Redman & The Journey to Overcome All

Leadership, failure, redemption, catastrophic injury, and a breathtaking journey to “overcome all” – through the eyes of a retired, decorated Navy Seal.

September 28, 2023

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Employee Benefits

InBusiness magazine features Benefit Commerce Group

This summer, we were contacted by the publisher of InBusiness magazine, asking us to be profiled in their 2023 Small Business Industry Leader issue.



This edition of the magazine features industry leaders and how they are helping small businesses to thrive.

September 21, 2023

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Employee Benefits

Our 2023 AZ Benefits Benchmarking Results Event in Flagstaff

Our first Flagstaff AZ Benefits Benchmarking Results Breakfast Seminar on July 28th 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 the use of data science to provide consumers access to best-performing doctors to achieve better medical outcomes and lower costs.

July 28, 2023

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: The Power of Interdependence

The world’s best blind golfer let the audience see how important it is to support each other.

June 23, 2023

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Corporate Insight

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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