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Data: Honest Women, Sad Workers, TPA Costs,

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Working women may be more honest than working men about how little they know about their life insurance coverage and their life insurance needs.

The MetLife unit of MetLife Inc., New York (NYSE:MET), commissioned a firm to conduct telephone surveys of 500 employed U.S. adults who have life insurance earlier this summer.

About 12% of the men interviewed and 21% of the women admitted that they have no idea how much coverage they have.

But MetLife found that men and women had similar views about coverage needs.

The conventional wisdom is that workers need enough life insurance to cover outstanding debt plus 5 years of salary.

About 54% of the women interviewed and 47% of the men said enough insurance to cover outstanding debt plus 3 years of salary ought to be enough.

In other insurance data news:

- Unum Group Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn. (NYSE:UNM), suggests that employers might want to try to use the 2012 benefits open enrollment season communications and benefits offerings to improve employee morale.

When the company commissioned a survey of 1,712 employed adults in December 2010, right after the last open-enrollment season, it found that only 63% of of the employees thought their employers valued their work, down from 70% in 2008.

The percentage of workers who said they thought their employers cared about their well-being dropped to 56%, from 63%.

The percentage of workers who said they had received printed benefits information dropped to about 50%, from 70%, and the percentage who reported having online access to materials fell to 36%, from 51%.

- Sherlock Company, Gwynedd, Pa., says administrative expenses for core services at 7 large third-party administrators it analyzed amounted to 98% of fees in 2010.

Administrative expenses averaged$18.72 per employee per month, Sherlock says.

Core medical product costs averaged $22.15 per employee per month.

- Allison Bell

Other survey coverage from National Underwriter Life & Health:

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