Disability Awareness Month

May is Disability Awareness Month. Disability insurance can help protect your paycheck if you are injured or ill and unable to work. Why not insure one of your most vauable assets? www.protectyourpaycheck.com is a good website to check out with information about disability insurance and a personal disability quotient calculator that calculates your chance of becoming disabled. Here at The Insurance Center we write disability policies and would be happy to do a quote for it.

UAIIA Convention

The Utah Association of Independant Insurance Agents Connvention was held this past weekend at the Eccles Conference Center in Ogden. All the agents from The Insurance Center were able to attend and enjoyed it very much. Shawn Iverson was able to take some picture with some of the vendors that were at the trade booth fair last Friday.



This is Shawn Iverson with Charlie Anderson who is the president of Multico.



This is Wayne Spence of Advanced Restoration with Shawn Iverson.

Big Winner!

Congrats to Jason Call from our office who won the Young Agent of the Year Award at the UAIIA Convention which was held in Ogden this past week. Jason has worked at the insurance center for over seven years and we are proud of the hard work he does!

Facebook

Check out our new page on facebook and like us! Our new facebook page is designed to let you let know what the insurance center is about and what is going on at the agency as well as to receive feedback from you our clients on how you feel about us. Make and comment and let us know what you think!

Real Salt Lake

Here at The Insurance Center we have employees who are huge fans of Real Salt Lake. Shawn Iverson the owner and his family were able to attend the big game last night and support their favorite team while showcasing their true colors. Although Real Salt Lake did lose the team put up a good fight and acheived what no other MLS team has been able to accomplish before them. They will continue to finish out the season and earn their second MLS cup while the Iverson family cheers them on from the sidelines.

Healthcare Reform Timeline

Now that it's been a year since the Affordable Care Act Coverage was passed here a timeline of what changes occurred last year and what will happen in the future.

Effective 2010
Expands dependent coverage to include adult children until age 26.

Eliminates lifetime benefits caps on basic health benefits and restricts annual caps.

Keeps plans and insurers from charging more for emergency services that are obtained out of a plan network.

Requires plans to cover preventive services without cost to members.


Effective 2011
Requires plans to spend at least 85% of large group revenue and 80% of individual and small group revenue on health care and quality improvement.

Creates a system for reviewing "unreasonable" rate increases.


Effective 2013
Limits deductibility of health insurance company executive compensation.


Effective 2014
Creates a health insurance exchange distribution system

Creates a health insurance purchase subsidy tax credit

Requires health insures to sell coverage on a guaranteed issue, mostly community-rated basis.

Requires states to make Medicaid available to individual and families with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level.

Anniversary

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of when President Obama signed the Healthcare Reform Act into a law. Changes have taken place in the last year with more to come until the transition is complete in 2014. While popular opinion at first was supportive of the law lately more and more individuals are questioning if this law is really beneficial.