Benefit Advisors Network Summer Educational Conference Collaboration Energizes Members.

WORCESTER, Mass. -- The Benefit Advisors Network (BAN), a national consortium of employee benefit brokers and consultants, continues to demonstrate ability to directly contribute to members' growth and profitability.

At their Summer Educational Conference BAN members collaboratively forged ideas to expand current offerings and introduced new services that will continue to keep the organization vital to members. "When you announce a break or lunch and no one leaves the room, you know you're in the midst of something extraordinary" observed Kathy Newton, BAN Executive Director.

According to Bob Relph, Relph Benefit Advisors (RBA), "one of the key elements of BAN has always been sharing of intellectual capital, best practices, and operational and competitive advantages. When combined with tangible and usable "tools" such as compliance support from K & L Gates, technology solutions, consulting expertise that improves productivity, our Medical and Pharmacy Directors, or the assistance of WFG Capital Advisors helping us fine-tune our business, BAN has helped us become a better company and increased our ability to serve our clients. RBA's tagline is "First in Benefits Relief" and BAN and our member colleagues deliver "Relief" to RBA!"

"We have gotten our monies worth; from conferring with BAN members to the educational webinars (16 of our clients attended the last one) to including BAN offerings in Consultant RFP's. It really makes a difference. Our ability to include BAN and the D2 Hawkeye data mining system is definitely contributing to our success", Bill Lacey, Vice President, The Plexus Groupe observed recently.

The organization welcomed two new members BCF Group and Coury Health Services. BCF Group, Lancaster PA, specializes in all aspects of commercial insurance services. Coury Health has been servicing the Western Pennsylvania region developing employer programs tailored to meet clients' needs for over twenty years. Brad Forney, President BCF Group and Tina Hapanowicz, Principal Coury Health echoed the same motivation, "We became members of BAN because it enables us to realize national level expertise, while providing clients with in-depth knowledge of the local group insurance marketplace". "Both firms have already demonstrated their capacity and willingness to contribute and we are very pleased to welcome them", said John O'Connell, Principal CM Smith Agency, Glastonbury CT.

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