The Hartford has integrated dental and vision coverage with its group disability and life insurance offerings, which it said would enable brokers to create comprehensive benefits packages for small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The dental and vision coverage has been added to The Hartford's online benefits quoting platform.

“Employers want to bundle benefits to create a complete package that helps protect employees' financial and physical health,” said Donato Monaco, the vice president of The Hartford's small business benefits operations. “The addition of dental and vision makes our quoting platform a one-stop shopping site for small business brokers.”

Using the platform, brokers can obtain a quote and proposal for disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, dental, and vision coverage for companies with four to 49 employees. The web-based resource allows brokers to respond quickly to their customers by leveraging real-time data and using e-signatures, The Hartford said. Dental and vision policies are underwritten by United Concordia Dental carriers and administered, in part, by Howell Benefit Services, Inc., which is The Hartford's third-party administrator.