Public Entity Expertise

Unparalleled Experience for Public Entities

It's not enough just to know health insurance. Nor is it enough to know the public entity world. To have a bottom-line impact, you need a partner who is a proven leader at delivering insurance solutions custom-built for public entities.

Conner Strong offers just that. Our public entity division, PERMA, created the JIF model more than 20 years ago in New Jersey. PERMA was also a leading advocate to create municipal Health JIFs in 1991 and school district Health JIFs in 1995. A new law was passed in 2007 allowing all public entities to join the same Health JIFs. Once again, PERMA has been at the forefront bringing more public entities together to harness the strength of health insurance joint-purchasing.

We haven't just been around the longest. In the health insurance area alone, PERMA offers five JIFs covering thousands of members and manages the second largest Health JIF in the country. Conner Strong is the only brokerage and consulting firm in New Jersey serving as Executive Director for Health Insurance JIFs, offering unparalleled experience in managing this unique business.

Our public entity benefits experience is second to none. Across all of our benefits business, PERMA is involved in managing 165,000 members, making us one of the largest benefits firms in the nation for public entities.