As Mental Health Month ends, we are hosting an important conversation to not only bring awareness to mental illness but to also discuss the importance of destigmatizing its existence, especially in the workplace, through thoughtful benefit programs. As employers continue to focus on designing wellbeing programs that better the lives of their employees, it is critical to include mental health in the discussion.

Join Newfront for a special fireside chat with Nicole Willingham, Senior North American Benefits Program Manager at Twitter to learn more about her philosophy for creating impactful programs and promoting mental wellbeing.

Featured Speaker: Nicole Willingham, Head N. America Benefits Strategy & Operations at Twitter

Moderator: Robyn Cross, Vice President, Wellbeing Practice Lead at Newfront

Building a comprehensive benefits and wellbeing philosophy

Prioritizing mental wellbeing now and beyond the pandemic

Unique approaches to wellbeing program strategy 

Considerations for employers who are just getting started 

Benefit Programs to Empower Mental Wellbeing

https://pages.newfront.com/WBN2022-06-01-PrioritizingMentalHealthwithBetterBenefitProgram_LP-Registration.html

The hottest employee benefits these days are fringe offerings like infertility HRAs, lifestyle spending accounts (LSAs), commuter benefits, educational assistance, and adoption assistance.  

These supplemental-type benefits are typically designed to recruit and retain employees by providing additional levels and types of benefits beyond the standard health and welfare plan features.

This session of Newfront Office Hours covers how employers should address the various compliance issues associated with these trending fringe benefit offerings.

Specialty HRAs: Providing additional benefits such as infertility, mental health, gender dysphoria, autism

Lifestyle Spending Accounts (LSAs): Reimbursing common, non-medical expenses on a taxable basis

Commuter Benefits: A tax-advantaged way for employees to pay for mass transit and parking expenses

Office Hours: Fringe Benefits for Employers

https://pages.newfront.com/WBN2022-05-17OfficeHoursFringeBenefitsforEmployers_LP-Registration.html

Join Newfront and Wellness Coach for Wellbeing for Peace, a community challenge to support Ukraine.  

The news in Ukraine has left many of us wondering what we can do to help. Newfront has teamed up with Wellness Coach to launch a weeklong wellbeing challenge and fundraiser in support of the people of Ukraine.  From April 25 – May 2, 2022, track your steps and help us reach our $15,000 sponsorship goal.  

Newfront has pledged $2,500 towards this cause and several of our partners are also getting their teams involved too.   

Bronze: Standard and Lincoln Financial Group

Ready to join? Here’s how the "Wellbeing for Peace” challenge works:  

A direct link to the challenge is available here.

For those who may not want to track participation but still want to support Ukraine, you can also donate directly to our fundraiser through GlobalGiving. 

Please reach out to support@wellnesscoach.live with technical questions, check out the FAQs, or email us here with general questions you have about the challenge. Thank you for supporting “Wellbeing for Peace” as we work together to support Ukraine.   

What is a leave of absence?  It could mean many things!

A leave could be job-protected under FMLA, CFRA, PDL (or other state equivalent), a paid leave under SDI or PFL (or other state equivalent), and unpaid leave, a non-protected leave, a leave pursuant to a company policy, etc.  

This session of Newfront Office Hours covers how each form of a leave of absence comes with different health plan coverage, payment, and other compliance issues.

Protected Leaves: The requirement to maintain active coverage at the employee premium rate

Non-Protected Leaves: Option to extend active coverage during leave, up to limits imposed by carrier

ACA Complications—LBMM: Look-back measurement method keeps full-time status in stability period

ACA Complications—Hours of Service: Which forms of compensation during leave qualify as hours

ADA Reminders: Health coverage may terminate even where ADA prevents termination of employments

This webinar will be recorded for future listening and will be emailed to all registrants.  You can submit your questions in advance to officehours@theabdteam.com and we will try to address during the webinar.

Office Hours: Health Benefits While on Leave

https://pages.newfront.com/WBN2022-04-12OfficeHours-HealthBenefitsWhileonLeave_LP-Registration.html

Benefits Plus: How to Win Over Talent with a Winning Message

Please join us, as Yanni Spiliotis, Benefits Consultant, Employee Benefits, Newfront and Dave Pilson, VP, Total Rewards at Upwork, discuss how to stay competitive and compete in a talent war, and empower your people teams to think beyond pure compensation and equity to effectively communicate your benefits package’s value proposition in order to hire and retain talent. Learn more about this session, and the HRE’s Health & Benefits Leadership Conference.

HRE Health & Benefits Leadership Conference

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Public, private and nonprofit companies have one thing in common: they all face Director and officers (D&O) litigation risks. Obtaining coverage for your clients is as important as ever, especially in this litigious environment, as coverage provides protection for executives, board members, their spouses, and the company.

Newfront invites you to join this webinar that will provide an overview of the D&O marketplace. We will take a deeper dive into the reasons why the D&O market has hardened and identify the main drivers of claims activity for 2021 and beyond.

Liability risks associated with climate change

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC) activity and litigation 

Top D&O Market and Claims Trends for 2022

https://pages.newfront.com/WBN2022-03-15TopDOMarketClaimsTrends_LP-PostVideo.html

Newfront's Broker Summits showcase updates from leadership detailing company wide growth, with introductions to new team members and extensive sales/skills training. Highlights will include demonstrations on new additions to our technology and improvements to the product. A great way to meet our producers and get a good feel for what Newfront is all about!

Newfront CEO, Co-Founder Spike Lipkin and Newfront Chief Insurance Officer, Anna Beach bring clarity to the current confusion of insurance coverage surrounding Coronavirus. They’ll cover the primary areas of concern for business owners as Coronavirus expands across the globe and discuss what Newfront is doing to help clients manage in this difficult time.

Weathering Through Coronavirus: Real Talk for Businesses

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5596050596967389196

Unfortunately, due to Coronavirus concerns, we're taking precautions and postponing this event. We will follow up when we have more details. 

http://unbouncepages.com/sacramento-office-warming/

Join Newfront Insurance for its full day agriculture & cannabis summit, where industry experts will present a variety of engaging and cutting-edge programs including: Spanish-speaking supervisory trainings on Cal-OSHA compliance topics, and seasoned insurance and legal specialists untying perplexing regulatory knots and explaining emerging safety and legal trends. 

See the extended information below. RSVP required. Exact times for each session to be announced soon. Please email agsummit@newfront.com for any additional questions. 

9:15AM - Sexual Harassment Prevention (Newfront’s Loss Prevention Specialist)

11:30AM - Forklift Safety (Newfront’s Loss Prevention Specialist)

1:15PM - Heat Illness Prevention (Michael Alvarez, Cal-OSHA)

2:15PM - Accident Investigations (Newfront’s Loss Prevention Specialist)

3:30PM - Safe Pesticide Handling (Angelina Ceja, AG-SAFE)

9:15AM - The Wild West: Cannabis Safety (Karen Gunderson, Kristy Schultz, Monika   Maier, State Fund, Safety and Health Services)

10:15AM - How to Avoid a Cal-OSHA Enforcement Inspection (Cal-OSHA Enforcement, Nick Gleiter)

11:30AM - Employment Laws in 2020: How They Impact Your Business (Rebecca Stephens, Farella Braun + Martel LLP)

1:15PM - California Hemp: 2020 and Beyond (Nicole Howell Neubert, Clark Neubert LLP)

2:15PM - Keeping Your License In the Face Of Regulatory Hurdles (Eduardo Blanco, ALRB; Branden Butler, DFEH)

3:30PM - Labor Trafficking in Ag and the Cannabis Industries (Dana Filkowski, Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office)

Risk Management Summit for Agriculture & Cannabis 

Corral De Tierra Country Club, Monterey County

Join us for an evening of networking and fun! JenCap and Newfront Insurance will sponsor a two hour happy hour for our brokers and leadership in Orange County. 

http://unbouncepages.com/orangecounty-broker-gathering/

Getting off to a strong start will set the tone for your sales year. Join Garth Hamilton, Chief Sales Officer at Newfront Insurance for a sales training for insurance professionals that will stretch the conversation beyond pitching skills and slide decks.

As we begin a new decade in the insurance world, producers are looking for better ways to attract more clients. In the age of the customer, insurance professionals need to find and adopt best practices to win more deals. Join us as we dive into the best strategies for Producers to use in order to set their businesses up for success in 2020 and beyond.

Webinar: Sales Tips for Producers to Start 2020 off Right

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4972078846941239053

Our Broker Summit will feature Jay Wintrob as our keynote speaker! Newfront's Broker Summits showcase updates from leadership detailing company wide growth, with introductions to new team members and extensive sales/skills training. Highlights will include demonstrations on new additions to our technology and improvements to the product. A great way to meet our producers and get a good feel for what Newfront is all about!

This is an all day event! 
Attire: Business Casual 

Join us, our leadership team, and our SF broker community for an evening of networking and fun. 

Waystone - 992 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102

We have a new space, new employees, and we're ever grateful!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/newfront-growing-grateful-happy-hour-tickets-80153684829

Join us for dinner with our CEO, Spike Lipkin and our brokers in locations throughout California. Dinners will be hosted in Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles. 


Please RSVP to Lauren@newfront.com for the dinner you'd like to attend!

Sacramento 11/14
San Francisco 12/10
San Diego 12/18
Los Angeles 12/19

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Benefit Programs to Empower Mental Wellbeing

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Wellbeing for Peace

Office Hours: Health Benefits While on Leave

HRE Health & Benefits Leadership Conference

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