MultiEmployer.com Launched to Provide Total Internet Solution for Multiemployer Trusts

Web Design and Secure Hosting Available from New Division of Edward Price Company

DALY CITY, Calif., October 13/- - Taft-Hartley trustees and administrators can now turn to MultiEmployer.com, a division of the Edward Price Company, for turn-key solutions to their World Wide Web and Internet needs.    The new division is headed by Sherman B. Lieberman, F.S.A., a consulting actuary who brings to MultiEmployer.com almost 30 years of experience in the multiemployer benefit arena.  MultiEmployer.com provides the specialized information architecture for World Wide Web applications which is required by multiemployer trust funds.  In addition to offering standard services such as web site development/design, secure web site hosting, and database integration, the firm offers plan interpretation, creation and maintenance of appropriate content, and proprietary benefits calculators.  The employee self-service options once available only through corporate intranets are now available to the multiemployer plan participant.

Cliff Price, president of Edward Price Company said, "The technology has arrived for overcoming some of the communication limitations inherent in the multiemployer benefit-delivery environment.  The Internet now gives trust funds the tools they require to provide quality and effective interactions with the geographically dispersed participants of multiemployer plans.  In light of the recent initiative of the AFL-CIO to put computers and Internet access in the homes of each of its members, we think this is a most opportune time to launch this new service for union trust funds."

MultiEmployer.com is organized as a one-stop shop for trust funds who are ready to exploit the Internet, providing the in-house expertise to design Web content which is tailored to the needs of their multiemployer plan participants.  The foundation of the web site technology is an interactive communications loop between the trustees, administrative office, employers, and participants.   MultiEmployer.com provides a strong combination of proprietary multiemployer database software and technicians with experienced health and welfare and pension consultants.  This furnishes clients with a fast track to participant self-service and to electronic distribution of information about benefit plans and choices.

Sherman Lieberman, director and co-founder of MultiEmployer.com said, "Our clients' plans are complex and are becoming more complex.  We have given a great deal of thought as to how to use the Web to fulfill the merely legal or required  aspects of benefits communication. But, a more important design consideration is this: what is the most efficient, available, and elegant technology to deliver that  information to participants which they really need in order to get the maximum value out of their benefit plans.  Now, with the Internet, these goals are easily within reach.  In fact, this technology will create a new link between trustees, employers, unions and their plan participants, and an appreciation and understanding of these benefits never before achievable."

Edward Price Company, headquartered in Daly City, was started is 1953 as a group benefit consultant/broker.  The firm specialized in consulting and administration for Taft-Hartley pension and health funds in the construction and transit sectors.  The firm was a database innovator in the early 1990's, offering interactive voice response and other database-enhanced services to multiemployer participants.  The company now focuses on web-based benefit solutions.  Edward Price Company/MultiEmployer.com is dedicated to the efficient delivery of  healthcare, pension, and financial planning benefit information to the multiemployer participant.  For more information contact Sherman Lieberman or Cliff Price at (800) 362-5247 or to view a sample site, connect to: www.multiemployer.com.