Category Archive for : ‘Health’

National Nutrition Month is celebrated every March and focuses on spreading the importance of making informed food choices and developing healthy eating habits. As we all begin to emerge from pandemic-related hibernation, where for many comfort was king, it’s important to reevaluate our eating habits. For many Americans eating healthier means a greater expense at the grocery store but, preparation and shopping smart can lessen the burden. In honor of National Nutrition Month, keep the following money-saving tips in mind:

Make a weekly meal plan.
Before you go to the store, think

The arrival of the fall and winter months signals many things, including flu season. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu activity peaks between December and February. It’s likely that flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID-19 will both spread this fall and winter.

The flu vaccine is your best chance of preventing the illness, and it’s more important than ever this year. Currently, the CDC recommends an annual flu vaccine for anyone over 6 months of age.

In addition to getting your vaccine, there are some

Updated 3/15/2020

To Our Valued Clients,

FBinsure is deeply committed to the health and safety of our employees, clients, and communities.  Like so many, we are adapting to and navigating the situation as best and as quickly as possible.  It is our commitment to you to continue to strive to exceed your expectations despite these trying times.  To that end, we are implementing the following:

As of Monday 3/16/2020, we will be closing our locations in Fall River, Dighton, West Bridgewater, Freetown, and New Bedford – 1823 Acushnet Avenue.  Other locations will

The CDC has advised Americans to take precautions and make preparations to deal with a outbreak of Coronavirus, or COVID-19, in the United States.  While the media hype surrounding the illness can seem overblown, it’s important to not write off the risk this virus poses to Americans’ daily lives.

The Coronavirus Facts As We Know Them:

Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, runny nose, cough and trouble breathing.
Most people only develop mild symptoms, through there is more significant risk to elderly, young or immunocompromised individuals
The virus spreads in close contact, mainly through respiratory

September’s Jeans Day will be the “New England Walk4Hearing” hosted by our Client Service Manager Colleen Rosa. Her niece, Tia, was diagnosed at birth with moderate bilateral sensorineural hearing loss which is caused by damage to the inner ear or problems with the nerves from the ear to the brain (ASHA, 2019). This requires her to use of hearing aids, American Sign Language (ASL) and lip reading. Tia, who is now 10 years old, is mainstreamed in the public school system with the support from The Program for the Deaf

In the Wake of the Deadliest Flu Season in Recent History, CDC Urges Public to Take Action

Over 700,000 people were estimated to have been admitted to the hospital during the 2017-18 flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network. What’s even more alarming is the fact that epidemic levels of influenza or pneumonia persisted for 16 consecutive weeks. The 2017-18 flu season was the first flu season to be classified as high severity across all age groups.

Due to last year’s deadly consequences

Massachusetts’ law is now imposing a penalty on employers with employees enrolled in subsidized health coverage, like MassHealth in place of an employer’s plan. These modifications are hitting employers hard!  This act, passed in August 2017 is now effective for wages paid as of January 1, 2018 and expires at the end of calendar year 2019.  It boils down to this simple fact: the State has a deficit paying for MA Health and the EMAC charge is the intended answer to that problem.  Read below to understand how these charges break

This week we are pleased to share a blog written by a longtime friend of the agency, Seth Denson of GDP Advisors out of McKinney, TX.  Tom Rogers, FBinsure’s SVP of Sales, took a few moments to share his thoughts about our guest blogger and his partner John Powter, both of whom have been business resources and friends to Tom for some time.

Tom Rogers: “I found in my career that the more I surround myself with really talented people, the better off I will be.  We have tried to live by

Memorial Day and the beginning of Summer is here!  The smells of cookouts with lots of delicious foods like hamburgers, hot dogs, and ribs will soon fill the air nearly every weekend into the early Fall.  As we think about traveling to or gathering with friends in the summer heat to swim and play volleyball and lawn darts, we should give some thoughts to some of the safety observances that surround the hundreds of pounds of cooked food that we will soon consume.  As a guest or as the host of a summer Barbecue we

If you have ever driven by or been in an auto accident most likely you’ve also seen an ambulance on the scene carting the injured parties off to the hospital.  As you take that ride in the steel stallion, did you ever think about who is responsible for your medical bills?  Who will pay for them if you are involved in a serious auto accident? Many of us assume that our health insurer will be the only call however, did you know that your auto insurance will help cover your