The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Joins Maxwell Health’s Benefits Marketplace

BOSTON, Sept. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxwell Health (Maxwell) announced today that a leading suite of employee benefits from The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America® (Guardian) would be included in their online private marketplace. Maxwell's marketplace will include Guardian's employee benefit options such as life insurance, disability, critical Illness, cancer, vision and dental insurance. By providing these products through Maxwell Health, an increasingly popular distribution channel, Guardian is expanding access to important benefit options for employers and employees.

Maxwell Health is the first comprehensive Health-as-a-Service platform, featuring a beautifully designed user interface and an intuitive, lifestyle-based system for simplified enrollment through bundled employee benefits. With Maxwell, an employer can combine Guardian's fully scalable suite of insurance benefits with complementary products and services, including wellness and telemedicine solutions and a health care concierge. The platform is also a comprehensive benefits administration solution for HR administrators and supports complex benefits strategies for groups up to 5000.

Maxwell's platform integrates with top-line services, including an industry-leading health concierge service, a telemedicine solution, child, pet, home and senior care services, healthy meal delivery services, identity theft protection and resolution services, online wellness and fitness classes, and at-home biometric screening and analysis. The system also integrates with leading payroll solutions, 401K services, HRA, HSA, commuter benefits and COBRA services, and best-in-class HRIS.

Maxwell Health engages employees beyond benefits enrollment through a beautiful, consumer-friendly mobile app and turnkey wellness program that connects them to their benefits, simplifies navigating the healthcare system, and incentivizes healthy, balanced lifestyles. By streaming in employee fitness data through market-leading Jawbone UP and Fitbit fitness devices, the Maxwell app provides contextualized, relevant feedback to employees, and its in-app social layer includes challenges and company leaderboards. The easy-to-implement rewards program allows employers to fund gift cards or nonprofit donations that employees can redeem for healthy behaviors.

Guardian®, one of the nation's largest mutual life insurers and a leading provider of employee benefits, has developed a high quality suite of group and voluntary life insurance, short term disability, long term disability, accident, critical Illness, cancer, vision and dental insurance products specifically for Maxwell's intuitive lifestyle-based benefits bundles. Like Maxwell, their offerings are available nationwide (*not all coverages are available in every state), and are fully scalable for any size business.

Bob Neil, National Practice Leader of Specialty Markets at Guardian said, "Maxwell Health's technology supported approach to support a healthy lifestyle paired with Guardian's employee benefits creates a truly customer-driven shopping experience by offering customizable coverage to a diverse consumer population.  Maxwell's administrative and technological capabilities allow employees and their families to choose the benefits that fit their lifestyle in an educational and accessible environment." 

Bob Gaydos, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Maxwell added, "Guardian has been in the marketplace business for over 150 years, and in the group business for 50. They have a well-established position in the market as an innovative insurance carrier. With Guardian's suite of products on our platform, we can now offer fully scalable benefits in any state with automated quotes and instantaneous enrollment capabilities. This is truly transformative in the insurance market."

About Guardian
A mutual insurer founded in 1860, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and its subsidiaries are committed to protecting individuals, business owners and their employees with life, disability income and dental insurance products, and offer funding vehicles for 401(k) plans, annuities and other financial products. Guardian operates one of the largest dental networks in the United States, and protects more than six million employees and their families at 115,000 companies. The company has approximately 5,000 employees in the United States and a network of over 3,000 financial representatives in more than 80 agencies nationwide.

For more information about Guardian, please visit www.GuardianLife.com  

About Maxwell Health
Maxwell Health, a fast-growing industry leader in health IT, is the first Health as a Service platform. This revolutionary operating system for employee benefits engages employees, incentivizes a holistic view of health, and provides a centralized place to access health and benefits services. Maxwell's web portal and mobile app enhances the benefits experience by leveraging data from multiple sources, meaning better, more informed health solutions. Benefits brokers, TPAs, carriers, and other vendors license Maxwell's technology to use with their employer clients.

For more information about Maxwell Health, please visit www.maxwellhealth.com

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