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CGIB June Seminar: Q&A with 3 small biz owners & CRA’s new PSB
Have you ever wanted to pick a small business owner’s brain about how they choose an advisor? Or ask about their challenges with benefits? The Canadian Group Insurance Broker (CGIB) June seminar is giving Ontario advisors the opportunity to do just that.
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Investing in knowledge pays
I believe that an advisor should be a specialist not a generalist. To achieve that, advisors need to invest in themselves to obtain and maintain the knowledge required to be a specialist in their field.
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Ontario Event: CGIB’s plan admin checklist
Have legal liabilities ever kept you up at night? Do you need a more effective approach when you land new clients and train plan administrators? Then consider attending the Canadian Group Insurance Brokers’ (CGIB) Building a Plan Administrator Checklist seminar.
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EAPs cut cost burden of mental health
Mental health issues are some of the leading causes of disability in the workplace. Employee assistance programs, or EAPs, are supposed to help business owners control the cost of mental health by supporting employees through personal crises that affect their work
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CGIB Survey on Provincial Drug Integration
Recently, the CGIB surveyed its members about drug costs and provincial drug program integration. The results reveal what small group brokers are doing with their clients to keep escalating costs under control – and it isn’t much.
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Group Advisors Benefit From Training
Attendees at the 2nd Annual AGIAC tell us about their conference experience and why they feel these educational events are important to their business operations. http://www.aretehr.com/
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Ontario will pay for client’s eligible catastrophic drug claims
The Ontario government’s Trillium Drug Program (TDP) can help employers reduce their drug plan costs even more than previously thought. At a recent CGIB seminar in Markham, ON, a group of over 75 industry insiders learned surprising details about how the program works that has serious implications for small businesses in Ontario struggling with drug [...]
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CLHIA shares details on new pooling framework at CGIB meeting
Benefits Canada article by Leigh Doyle - The day after the announcement from the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA) about a new pooling framework for high-cost drugs, Stephen Frank, vice-president of policy development and health, spoke at a seminar releasing further details of the plan. The seminar was held by the Canadian Group [...]
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From Breakfast Club to Association
The Insurance Journal highlights the group in its December issue By Kate McCaffery
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SmallBizAdvisor Canada gives a thumbsup to CGIB
SmallBizAdvisor Canada talks about CGIB and the benefits of breakfast meetings. Special thanks to Peter Demangos, Adrienne Sacks and Al Kaminskas for their quotes. From the article “Together, as a group, they explore solutions. They are there to help each other—and themselves—be better employee benefit advisors.”
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