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    From small businesses to publicly traded companies, Burnham Benefits provides an unmatched range of advisory services for employee benefit programs.

    As an Alera Group company, Burnham Benefits has access to the services, resources, technical expertise and best practices of a large national firm with a highly innovative culture. This coupled with our personalized, local relationships and knowledge of our unique regional characteristics, we are able to keep our clients on the leading edge of industry trends helping them to maximize the return on their employee benefits investment.

    Alera Group's national scope includes more than 1,700 employees serving thousands of clients through more than 85 locations across the nation.

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    Employee Benefits

    Benchmarking That Drives Decisions: Why Averages Mislead — and What Best-in-Class Data Reveals

    A clear, data-driven view of the 2026 employee benefits landscape grounded in benchmarking results.

    June 16, 2026 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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    Employee Benefits

    GLP-1s at Scale: Why Weight-Loss Drug Decisions Are Now a Financial Strategy

    A GLP-1 decision framework plus scenarios.

    July 21, 2026 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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    Employee Benefits

    Open Enrollment That Works: Why Employees Do Not Engage — and How Modern Communications Drive Better Choices

    Practical communication strategies to strengthen open enrollment effectiveness and employee decision-making.

    August 18, 2026 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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    Employee Benefits

    Legal Alert: PBM Transparency Coming Soon

    Two recent movements on the federal level have paved the way for greater pharmacy benefit manager (“PBM”) transparency for group health plans.

    May 22, 2026

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    Property and Casualty

    Why is umbrella liability getting so expensive?

    While most commercial insurance pricing has softened in 2026, umbrella liability has not. In fact, it’s moving in the opposite direction.

    May 4, 2026

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    Property and Casualty

    AI Isn’t Liable for the Mistake. You Are.

    Artificial intelligence is powerful. It’s also wrong more often than people want to admit.

    If you use AI to support or deliver professional services, any mistake it makes is still your responsibility. Not the software’s. Not the vendor’s. Yours.

    April 1, 2026

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    Property and Casualty

    Identity hijacking is surging. Here’s what leaders need to know.

    Cyber incidents across our client base have been sharper, faster and more costly this year. Even organizations with strong controls are being hit in ways that look very different from past attacks.

    March 13, 2026

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      Alera Group, Inc. is aware that there are persons fraudulently impersonating our company by using fake internet domains that appear to look like our legitimate services. If you are contacted by someone claiming to work for Alera Group, or any of our partners, please carefully review the email address and domain. If you have a relationship with our company, please contact us directly and not through any information that is provided in such an email. Please be extremely careful in responding to such emails with personal and financial information, sharing passwords, or any other information of value. Alera Group, or any of our partners, will never send ACH instructions via email and thus we strongly recommend that you verify the authenticity of each wire transfer request by calling your Alera Group contact using the number you have previously called.