Assurant Employee Benefits to Implement GettingHired, LLC's FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions

BEDMINSTER, N.J., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Assurant Employee Benefits today announced it will implement FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions to improve its claim triage and Return-to-Work programs. Available through GettingHired, LLC, FastTrack assists insurance companies in the short-term disability, long-term disability and workers compensation sectors.

FastTrack is designed with a robust set of Section 508-compliant features to provide motivational support and career services tools for the claimant. Additionally, FastTrack's proprietary RightMatch™ technology is used to match a claimant's experience, education and abilities to a large database of open jobs while a specialized tracking module provides caseworkers with the ability to monitor and encourage/coach the claimant.

"At a time when our customers' employees feel the most vulnerable, we feel it is important to provide them with the best customer service possible," said Thomas Vargo, Assurant Employee Benefits' Vice President - Disability and Life Claims Support. "Implementing this technology will allow us to improve the effectiveness of our return to work program and help those contending with a disability or illness rejoin the workforce faster." As an example, Vargo noted, that FastTrack's Career Services Tools Module provides a substantial number of features to help people with new limitations return to productive lives more quickly and successfully.

Sean Rutherford, GettingHired's Vice President for Return-to-Work Products stated, "We are very excited to be able to provide FastTrack to Assurant Employee Benefits, one of the largest marketers of employee benefits in the United States. FastTrack is the first commercially available product designed to automate a large part of the Return-to-Work process thereby more closely integrating the efforts of the claims examiner, medical personnel, vocational rehabilitation specialist and the injured worker to produce better outcomes for everyone."

About GettingHired, LLC

GettingHired, LLC is a software and services organization focused on creating employment opportunities for people with disabilities and helping employers find talented employees. In addition to the FastTrack Return-to-Work Solutions product, the company is well-known for its national employment and social networking portal GettingHired.com - Careers and Community for Talented People with Disabilities. GettingHired.com uniquely connects talented job seekers who happen to have disabilities with employers, advocacy organizations, veterans groups, colleges and service providers.

About Assurant Employee Benefits

Assurant Employee Benefits is part of Assurant, a premier provider of specialized insurance products and related services in North America and select worldwide markets. The four key businesses -- Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health, and Assurant Employee Benefits -- partner with clients who are leaders in their industries and have built leadership positions in a number of specialty insurance market segments in the U.S. and select worldwide markets. The Assurant business units provide debt protection administration; credit-related insurance; warranties and service contracts; pre-funded funeral insurance; creditor-placed homeowners insurance; manufactured housing homeowners insurance; individual health and small employer group health insurance; group dental insurance; group disability insurance; and group life insurance. Assurant has approximately 14,500 employees worldwide and is headquartered in New York's financial district. http://www.assurant.com.

For more information, please contact:

For GettingHired, LLC:

Robert Kuller
610-539-6948
[email protected]
http://www.FastTrackRTW.com

For Assurant Employee Benefits:

Brad Peak, VP, Products and Marketing
Assurant Employee Benefits
2323 Grand Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Ph: 816.474.2693
[email protected]

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SOURCE GettingHired, LLC