NU Online News Service, Oct. 30, 2003, 12:26 p.m. EST – The South Carolina Budget and Control Board’s Employee Insurance Program has picked Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, Columbia, S.C., to handle government employee benefits enrollment.
Colonial Life will help employees sign up for medical insurance and other core benefits through in-person meetings with licensed sales representatives. The company also will help employees buy universal life insurance.
Colonial Life, which won the contract through a competitive bidding process, could end up handling enrollment for as many as 50,000 state employees and 120,000 employees of other public agencies.