The MLBMA Agency, LLC  provide comprehensive coverage and solutions backed by partner-focused service specifically tailored to fit the needs of building material, home improvement and forest products businesses.  All member service requests and enrollment services are handled by MLBMA staff and partnering Agents.

Since 1948, MLBMA has been providing members quality health care coverage and superior service including custom group billing services for all products (health, life, dental and vision insurance) all in one convenient monthly invoice.

As a BCBSM sponsor we can quote, sell and service all Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan products including:

  • Group Health 
  • Individual Health 
  • Group Dental 
  • Group Vision

In addition, the MLBMA Agency, LLC offers:

  • COBRA Administration
  • Group Term Life Insurance
  • Health Care Reform Compliance
  • Employee Benefit Assistance (FSA, HRA, HSA)
  • Workers' Compensation Coverage
  • Property & Casualty Insurance 


Contact Information:

John Millerwise
Insurance Specialist (Workers' Compensation Coverage & Property/Casualty Insurance)
Phone 989-545-6300
Cell 989-280-9800

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Jodi Barber
Michigan licensed insurance producer for health, life and accident coverages.
517-394-5225 x 106
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Marianne Eallonardo
Health/dental/life benefits, COBRA processing, and enrollment information.
517-394-5225 x 105
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Agency LLC

As an authorized agent for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network, MLBMA Agency, LLC  (the Agency), through its licensed agents, can provide you with information and quotes on many Blues Products including:

Membership in MLBMA means you can protect your most valuable asset — your employees — by providing them the peace of mind that comes with small group health care coverage from the Blues.

With a large selection of health care plans available only to association members, through the MLBMA Agency, LLC. you have the flexibility to match the best plan with your budget.

Whether you have a staff of 50 or one, we can ensure that your employees have the comprehensive benefits and tools needed to protect them and their families to lead them to a healthier future.

The "growth" of your business depends on the right health coverage

For more information on how to grow a healthy workforce with a Blue Cross Bluse Shield of Michigan or Blue Care Network health plan, contact Jodi Barber licensed insurance producer for health, life and accident coverage’s at 517-394-5225 x 106.

Group Health Plans

 

Exclusive benefits for association members - more affordable health care solutions for your business.

If you're a member of MLBMA you can take advantage of exclusive sponsored plans and benefits from the Blues.

Complete Listing of Plans >>



Prescription Drugs


Advantage Pricing on Prescription Drugs from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

As part of Blue's commitment to containing healthcare costs, all of their pharmacy plans feature a tiered benefit design with a focus on generic drug use.

Benefits:


  • Maximize your savings when some of the most popular brand medications expire between now and 2012.
  • Members better manage costs through financial incentives.
  • Control the long-term pharmacy cost trend.
  • Your Association-sponsored Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Health Plans reward small businesses with Advantage Pricing which can provide an additional 3% savings on your medical premiums for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan contracts that use prescription drug coverage.
  • A Blue's prescription drug plan offers value, safety, effectiveness and convenience, perfect for growing a healthy work force and keeping costs low.
  • Members have easy access to more than 98 percent of pharmacies in Michigan and more than 90 percent nationwide.
Group Life

MLBMA Agency, LLC, through Dearborn National, provides MLBMA members with group term life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance coverage.


Group Life
With Group Term Life Insurance through the Agency - the benefit schedule allows participants the flexibility to customize the insurance needs for you and your employees for a group with as few as two employees.

Group Term Life programs can be tailor-made to fit the needs of any organization. Voluntary programs are also available for those organizations that would like to offer a life program for their insured population on a voluntary basis.

Affordability, Value and Flexibility
Dearborn National provides value by offering a Group Term Life product with an assortment of enhanced features and benefits, along with a wide range of value-added services.

Dearborn National’s Group Term Life product offers:
  • Affordable premiums
  • Basic, Supplemental or Voluntary plans
  • Optional coverage for spouses and dependents
  • Optional Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage

Our Group Term Life product includes features and options designed to enhance a benefits portfolio such as:

  • Conversion, which allows the insured to keep their valuable insurance protection should they leave the group;
  • Accelerated Death Benefit, that pays a portion of the face amount to the insured if diagnosed with a terminal illness;
  • Waiver of Premium, for employees disabled for at least nine months.
     

    Coverage Options:
  • Term Life Insurance starting at $15,000 (groups under 10) - $10,000 (groups with 10 or more)  
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (AD&D)
  • Dependent Life Insurance

Contact Jodi Barber, Michigan licensed insurance producer for health, life, and accident coverages, at MLBMA 517-394-5225 x 106.
Disability Insurance

Short Term/Long Term Disability Coverage
 
MLBMA, in partnership with American Fidelity, offers a variety of disability income plans for eligible employees. Plans are tailored to fit you! Disability Income Insurance helps provide an income for you when a covered accident or illness keeps you away from work for an extended period of time.

Program Features:

  • Flexible elimination and benefit periods available
  • Covers you for total disability due to a covered Accident or Illness
  • Covers you at home or in the hospital

Benefits:

  • Short Term and Long Term benefits available
  • Several elimination periods available  
  • Several benefit period options  
  • Monthly Disability Benefits are paid beginning the day following satisfaction of elimination period  
  • Optional benefit riders available on a group basis based upon the market selected

Most people have insurance on their house and car. What is often overlooked is coverage of your income. Take a moment to consider what your life would be like if you were not able to earn an income. Without your income, would you be able to keep your home or car?

For more information, or a rate quote, contact MLBMA at 517-394-5225.

Delta Dental

 
MLBMA’s partnership with Delta Dental's innovative individual plans allow your organization to give employees access to quality individual dental benefits-no matter where they live-at absolutely no cost or administrative burden to you. MLBMA enrolls all members, collects premium payments directly from policyholders and handles all inquiries through the MLBMA Agency, LLC customer service department.

Great Coverage

Delta Dental individual plans cover a wide range of services-from routine services like oral exams, cleaning, and X-rays to more complex (and expensive) services like bridges, crowns, and dentures.

Great Network

With these Delta Dental plans, enrolled can go to any licensed dentist, anywhere. However, they will save the most money by choosing one of the thousands of dentists who participate with Delta Dental in the largest network of dentists in the United States.

Dental Plan Options:

MLBMA 1000 Plan Information >>

MLBMA 2000 Plan Information >>

MLBMA 3000 Plan Information >>


Affordable Rates

Contact Jodi Barber, Michigan licensed insurance producer for health, life, and accident coverage at MLBMA 517-394-5225 x 106.

Delta Vision

MLBMA, partnering with Delta Vision, creates a Michigan network of well-known and respected eye care professionals. Delta Dental’s relationship with Eye Care Alliance (ECA) and its providers offers a valuable benefit to Michigan employers and other organizations, allowing them to secure both major ancillary health benefits (vision and dental) from a single, trusted source.

Delta Vision provides:

A continuum of care: everything from exams to frames to laser vision correction in one plan.

Delta Vision offers flexible, high quality vision benefit programs ranging from basic to comprehensive. These plans include specially negotiated pricing on professional eye exams, eye wear, contact lenses and laser vision correction. Treatment is provided by Eye Care Alliance (ECA), a network of well-known and respected professional eye care centers throughout Michigan. Many ECA practices offer a complete continuum of care,offering the full spectrum of eye care services at a single location.

A provider network that ensures quality and value.

Our provider network is comprised of doctors who care about the condition of their patients eyes - not just selling glasses. DeltaVision panel features members of Eye Care Alliance-ophthalmologists, optometrists, independent practitioners, comprehensive eye care centers, and optical retailers.

Contact Jodi Barber, Michigan licensed insurance producer for health, life, and accident coverage at MLBMA 517-394-5225 x 106.
Property & Casualty


Property & Casualty Insurance - Safety Group Program
 
With over 100 years of experience in the specialty insurance industry.  ILM recognizes the short and long-term challenges that influence your business decisions and insurance needs. As a result, ILM offers products designed to meet the challenges inherent to the lumber and building materials industry and leads the way in property insurance protection with big savings through MLBMA.

MLBMA members are eligible for premium savings and the Safety Dividend Program. Creating a sound safety program and implementing loss prevention procedures by each safety group participant is a key component in the success of the MLBMA/ILM Property and Casualty Dividend Insurance Safety Group Program.

How the Property & Casualty Dividend Program Works
A safety group is a loss sensitive insurance program that enables employers in the same industry to combine their insurance premiums with the goal of reducing their insurance premiums. While it is possible that an individual safety group participant may have a substantial loss in any given year, most of the participants of the group will not.  The group program spread the risk from the individual policyholder to the entire group.  That often allows a portion of the premiums to be returned to the member in the form of a dividend, although dividends cannot be guaranteed.
 
"Insurance purchasing can be one of the most important purchases I make for my company on a yearly basis. We operate six different operations that requires, in some cases, different types of insurance.  I found the right fit for us in the Indiana Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Company, the ILM Group. John Millerwise is our agent and he knows our business. John understands what is important to the building material dealer so that we have the right kind of insurance coverage for our different operations.  The ILM Group and John Millerwise was the right choice for us."  

Roy Schryer- Cheboygan Lumber Company



Let's Talk Property & Casualty Coverage

John Millerwise
Insurance Specialist

Phone 989-545-6300
Cell 989-280-9800
Fax 989-879-2356 
john@mlbma.org

Worker's Compensation

MLBMA, in partnership with the Michigan Retail Hardware Association (MRHA) Self-Insured Workers Compensation Fund, provides members of MLBMA workers compensation coverage at considerable savings over the cost of coverage with a commercial insurance carrier.

For over 29 years the MRHA Self-Insured Workers Compensation Fund has been operated by MRHA staff for Association members.   Trustees are members of MRHA and continue to work and serve with staff to manage and administrate the fund.

Why consider Workers Compensation coverage through the MRHA Self-Insured Fund?

  • The MRHA Self-Insured Workers Compensation Fund is nationally recognized for proactive member-related service for providing the lowest net cost to participants.
  • The Fund operates with lower overhead costs than a typical insurance company and refunds interest earnings as well as premium monies that aren't utilized for operating costs.
  • The Fund's claims are less than half of a typical insurance company's because members and employees consistently report claims early and help workers quickly and safely return to work.
  • The annual participant retention has exceeded 99% for over 25-years.

    For a rate quote or more information contact, MLBMA at 517-394-5225 or

    John Millerwise
    Insurance Specialist

    Phone: 989-545-6300
    Cell: 989-280-9800
    Fax: 989-879-2356 
    john@mlbma.org
      
    Note: The MRHA Self-Insured Workers Compensation Fund is endorsed by the Michigan Lumber and Building Materials Association but is separately operated and controlled by the MRHA Self Insured Workers Compensation Fund Board of Trustees.