Official Release: ShelterPoint Partners with Maxwell Health

ShelterPoint's Group Benefits now Available on Private Online Marketplace

Yiu Tso

2016-02-08T12:00:00.0000000 2022-07-15T10:56:25.1030000

Great Neck, NY, February 8, 2016-- ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company, and its subsidiary ShelterPoint Insurance Company (ShelterPoint), announced the inclusion of their suite of group benefits on the Maxwell Health platform (Maxwell). Maxwell's private marketplace and employee benefits technology platform is an increasingly popular distribution channel for health insurance and ancillary benefits. 

The following ShelterPoint products are now accessible to brokers and employers using Maxwell's benefits platform: Dental, Vision, Term Life, Hospital Cash, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, 24-hour Accident, NY statutory Disability (DBL), Employer & Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and Nurse HelpLine.

ShelterPoint, with its origin and expertise in short-term disability, is ranked #1 in New York for statutory short-term disability.¹ Over the years, ShelterPoint has diversified its product portfolio into a full suite of employee benefits and is now making its products available on a national scale. Working with Maxwell is the right fit for ShelterPoint's national expansion course and dedication to making benefits easy.
 
"We're excited about partnering with a cutting-edge marketplace," said Richard White, CEO of ShelterPoint. "Maxwell Health is a perfect fit for our wider mission of keeping group benefits simple and to-the-point for small businesses. With that, Maxwell Health reflects our commitment to empowering small businesses." All ShelterPoint products are available for groups of two or more employees.

For employers, Maxwell streamlines the administration of benefits, human resources, and payroll, and its beautiful, modern user experience makes it easy for employees to choose and use their benefits, helping them achieve better health and financial security.
 

About ShelterPoint
The ShelterPoint family of companies consists of ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company and ShelterPoint Insurance Company. ShelterPoint Life (formerly The First Rehabilitation Life Insurance Company of America, short First Rehab Life) was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Great Neck, NY. Since its inception, ShelterPoint Life has grown intoNew York's largest¹ statutory disability carrier. Through the years, ShelterPoint Life has added additional employee benefits to its product portfolio and currently insures more than 150,000 employers and over 1.3 million members. In 2014, First Rehab Life changed its name to ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company. For more information about ShelterPoint, please visit www.shelterpoint.com
¹ State of New York Workers' Compensation Board, form DB-680, 2014 – applies to statutory disability premiums under ShelterPoint Life Insurance Co. only.

About Maxwell Health
Maxwell Health is a technology platform and innovative marketplace solution that makes benefits and HR simple. Maxwell streamlines the administration of benefits, human resources, and payroll for HR administrators, and its beautiful, modern experience makes it easy for employees to choose and use their benefits, helping them achieve better health and financial security. Leading benefits advisors and insurance carriers partner with Maxwell to deliver a state-of-the-art benefits and HR experience for small-to-mid-size employers and their employees. To learn more about Maxwell Health, please visit www.maxwellhealth.com. 

Official Release: ShelterPoint Life Partners with National Vision Administrators

Updated plans will offer better service to members

Yiu Tso

2015-06-26T11:38:00.0000000 2022-07-15T11:05:00.0830000

Great Neck, NY, June 26, 2015-- ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company is partnering with National Vision Administrators, L.L.C. (NVA), one of the largest national vision networks and benefit administrators, to provide enhanced network benefits and claims processing capabilities for its policyholders.

The partnership allows ShelterPoint to leverage NVA’s negotiating power to reduce the cost of its vision benefits for its members by utilizing NVA’s national network of over 40,000 eye care professionals, including retailers and independent doctors.

ShelterPoint will have the flexibility to create custom plans based on the individual needs of its clients. In addition, ShelterPoint’s members will have access to NVA’s stellar vision benefits administration practices and a live 24/7/365 call center.

“We’re excited about partnering with a long-established leader in vision benefits,” said Richard White, CEO of ShelterPoint, “and NVA is the perfect fit for our wider mission of keeping group benefits simple and to-the-point for all of our small business clients.”

The NVA vision plans will be available beginning July 1, 2015.

About ShelterPoint

The ShelterPoint family of companies consists of ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company (formerly First Rehab Life) and ShelterPoint Insurance Company.

ShelterPoint Life (formerly The First Rehabilitation Life Insurance Company of America, short First Rehab Life) was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Great Neck, NY.  Since its inception, ShelterPoint Life has grown into New York’s largest* statutory disability carrier. Through the years, ShelterPoint Life has added additional employee benefits to its product portfolio and currently insures more than 150,000 employers and over 1.3 million members. In 2014, First Rehab Life changed its name to ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company.

A Florida-domiciled carrier was acquired in 2014, which was renamed ShelterPoint Insurance Company. This newly acquired entity is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ShelterPoint Life and is licensed in 48 states and territories.

About NVA

NVA has a long history of providing innovative and cost-effective vision benefit programs for its plan sponsors and their subscribers since 1979.  Providing millions of people throughout the United States with vision care programs, NVA serves employers in both the private and public sectors, unions as well as MCOs, third party administrators and health care purchasing coalitions.

NVA’s ever-growing vision provider network consists of tens of thousands of highly qualified, licensed eye care professionals. The network includes ophthalmologists, optometrists, and opticians, independent practitioners as well as optical retailers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.