Beckham Insurance Group

Online enrollment and HR tools

Beckham Insurance, which now trades as Beckham Ellis Insurance Group, consolidates enrollments and benefits in a cloud-based portal that employers use to choose and manage group benefits online. The firm offers two HR systems, so an employer can pick the one that fits its existing set-up. Every package draws on each health and supplemental insurance market and product the firm can reach, and clients can draw on training videos, interactive apps and HR and benefits newsletters. The firm describes itself as locally owned and operated for more than 20 years.

Compliance books, ACA support and legal counsel

The firm prepares customized compliance books for clients and gives access to ACA seminars, webinars and notifications. It retains a benefits attorney to advise clients, and it treats that guidance as part of each package. Staff also receive custom benefits booklets that bring all plan information together. These can be handed to new hires or distributed digitally, at no extra cost to the employer.

Plan design shown live in the room

The Benefits App lets advisers present plan design options in real time, changing plans face to face and showing the immediate effect of each change. The app brings medical, prescription and ancillary cover into the same conversation, so an employer can see how the design affects costs and staff. Strategy support includes local market knowledge, plan analytics and client advocacy, which the firm says it provides with every package. Employee wellness support completes the offer.

Clear, automated benefits for employers and staff

The firm says its aim is to make employee benefits clear, automated and paperless, with a responsive team that builds custom benefits strategies for each employer and its staff. As described on its site, its values are excellent customer service, long-term relationships built on knowledge and integrity, innovation and hard work. Its HR portal and benefits booklets are presented as tools that bring plan information together for staff in one place.

Beckham Insurance Group, now trading as Beckham Ellis Insurance Group, is a broker that arranges and manages employee benefit plans. It has offices in Charleston, South Carolina and St. Simons Island, Georgia, and has been locally owned and run for more than 20 years. Alongside insurance plans, it supplies the admin tools employers need to run benefits day to day.

Services

• Group health and supplemental insurance: access to the full range of health and supplemental insurance markets and products.
• Online enrolment and administration: a cloud portal that brings enrolments and benefits together, with a choice of two HR systems.
• Compliance and ACA support: compliance books, ACA seminars and webinars, and a retained benefits attorney for guidance.
• Strategy and plan analytics: local market knowledge and plan analysis, with a benefits app to model design changes live.
• HR portal and staff materials: training videos, newsletters and custom benefits booklets for employees.
• Employee wellness: wellness support as part of the package.

Clients

The firm works with about 170 employers of different sizes across South Carolina, Georgia and the wider Southeast.

Key facts

• Based in: Charleston, South Carolina, with an office in St. Simons Island, Georgia
• Experience: locally owned for more than 20 years
• Affiliation: part of Patriot Growth Insurance