CBIA offering identity-theft protection service to small-business members

The Connecticut Business & Industry Association has partnered with an identity-theft protection service to provide identity theft protection and recovery solutions for small businesses and their employees.

The CBIA/defend-id partnership offers eligible employees identity monitoring and alerts, credit monitoring and alerts, fully managed identity recovery, and expense reimbursement insurance up to $1 million for expenses incurred during identity recovery.

The identity protection plans, provided as an employer-paid or employee-paid benefit, are available exclusively to members of CBIA”™s Health Connections employee benefits program.

“Identity theft continues to expand at an exponential rate,” CBIA Service Corp. President Ken Comeau said. “This growing threat has resulted in an increased demand for quality identity monitoring and restoration services.”

According to CBIA”™s website, the partnership”™s gold plan costs $3.59 per month per employee, or $5.39 per family; its platinum plan costs $5.63 per employee, or $7.43 per family. That pricing is for companies with 250 or fewer employees; the organization asks that companies with more than 250 employees contact it directly for pricing.