Employee benefits agency specializing in helping businesses create innovative employee benefits plans that provide real value to serve as the official benefits agency for the ALC

(PRUnderground) September 15th, 2025

The Benefit Doctor helps businesses and essential industries nationwide offer affordable, customized employee benefits that truly make a difference. Focused on simplifying complex coverage decisions, the firm supports workers and families in labor-intensive and rural industries. After pioneering a unique benefits strategy for the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association (GLTPA), the relationship is expanding to include all ALC chapters and members nationwide. This move will enable The Benefit Doctor to protect more of America’s hardest-working families.

This partnership’s success is in large part thanks to Chelsea Johnson, a Wisconsin-based broker and longtime advocate for the logging community. For years, Johnson worked to find benefit solutions for GLTPA member companies, only to be told “No” time and again by underwriters unwilling to take on the risk. That changed in 2023, when she joined The Benefit Doctor and gained access to the firm’s strategic support, national underwriting leverage, and operational infrastructure. Finally, Johnson has the tools and support to achieve her goal to provide innovative employee benefits solutions for ALC employees.

The ALC and GLTPA represent workers in physically demanding industries where access to reliable benefits can make a significant difference. However, loggers and their families often face unique challenges when it comes to health and financial protection. Traditional carriers often classify the industry as too risky, offering limited options, inflated premiums, or flat-out denial of coverage. The Benefit Doctor’s specialized underwriting will offer access to benefits rarely made available to workers in high-risk occupations like forestry. They can ensure these individuals and families gain access to comprehensive benefits that protect their health, income, and future.

“Most brokers can’t even get a quote approved for this population,” said Zak Harlow, CEO of The Benefit Doctor. “Instead of giving up like many others before her, Ms. Johnson persevered until she found a way to offer a comprehensive employee benefits plan specifically tailored to meet their needs. By leveraging The Benefit Doctor’s long-standing relationships with key carrier partners, she successfully negotiated a plan to give loggers coverage, such as disability, accident, and hospitalization coverage that are near impossible for small groups, especially in the logging or forestry industry. For the first time ever, these benefits are guaranteed-issue for all ALC chapters and members.”

Since its founding in 2020, The Benefit Doctor brokers have helped hundreds of clients design and manage benefits packages that meet the unique needs of their workforce. Their comprehensive services include crafting employee benefits packages that include health, dental, vision, disability, and paycheck protection coverage, along with retirement planning and wellness programs. By providing guidance, enrollment support, and ongoing plan management, they make benefits easier for both employers and employees to navigate benefits.

For The Benefit Doctor, the ALC and GLTPA partnerships are a perfect example of what it means to Cure the Pain of employee benefits.

For more information about The Benefit Doctor or to explore benefits solutions for businesses or industry groups, visit www.TheBenefitDoctor.com.

About The Benefit Doctor

The Benefit Doctor helps employers and employees save $1 BILLION in healthcare spending through their proven 5-step treatment protocol. With a mission to be a reliable employee benefits broker, they specialize in making employee benefits an actual benefit and reducing overall spend on healthcare.

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