Someone needs to create a bill that any employer can purchase insurance from another state as oppose to buying it in the same state they are currently located.

"One employer purchased a certain set of benefits, and another employer didn't," Mr. Silverstein said.

In a typical broad-based leveraged COLI transaction, a corporate employer would purchase policies on masses of lower-level employees, sometimes without the employees' knowledge or consent.

He says, "I have my own copy, of course, and last summer I insisted that my new employer, Antonelli College, where I am the network administrator, purchase a site license.

Gurwitch's former employer, the Neiman Marcus Group, purchased a 51 percent stake in the company in 1999.

Because it often takes months to sell a home - especially when prices are high - employers sometimes purchase the houses of employees they relocate.

Discount sales might encourage more flexibility, too; employers could purchase tokens in bulk and resell them to employees at $1.11 or less.

Big insurers like UnitedHealth Group, Aetna and Cigna typically offer bariatric coverage only as a rider that employers can purchase for an extra charge.

Now that you mention it, my late employer Snaga Ohme had just recently purchased a new tanning bed.

In New York, employers must purchase disability coverage through a private insurance company if workers put in 40 or more hours a week.