Form 5500 · Employee benefit plan · ABBEVILLE, AL
GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD PRESERVING, INC.
The filing calls this plan GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD PRESERVING, INC. CAFETERIA PLAN.
GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD PRESERVING, INC. of ABBEVILLE, AL insures life, disability and stop-loss coverage for its employees, per Schedule A of its Form 5500. Its broker of record is MARSH & MCLENNAN AGENCY LLC. Coverage is written through THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and 2 other carriers. The plan's most recent policy period ended in December.
Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · EIN 63-0594831 · plan 501 · plan year 2024, filed Jul 29, 2025
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How this plan is funded
Self-funded as reported
The filing reports a stop-loss contract and no medical premium, which is what a plan that pays its own claims reports.
A stop-loss policy appears on a Form 5500 only when the plan itself is the beneficiary, or the premiums are paid from plan money. Many employers buy stop-loss and never report it here. So a plan with no stop-loss on its filing may still have it.
Benefits declared on this filing
Declared benefits are the plan’s own line 8b codes on Form 5500. “Not on Schedule A” means no insured contract for that line appears on this filing. That usually means the benefit is self-funded, or it sits under a different plan number.
Where a line has more than one insured contract, the carrier and the covered figure are the largest contract's by premium. The contracts are not added up: a pharmacy carve-out and the medical carrier beside it cover the same people.
Persons covered is the count the carrier filed for that policy at the end of its policy year, and it can include dependents. Participants is the plan's own count at the start of its plan year. The two count different people, so a covered figure can be larger.
Plan brief
Schedule A lists 8 insured contracts covering life, disability and stop-loss; the largest, with THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, covers 1,902 people.
The filing declares life, disability, health, dental and vision. Health, dental and vision appear with no insured contract on Schedule A. That coverage may be self-funded, or placed with a carrier that is not on this filing.
The only insured piece of the health benefit is stop-loss coverage, and the filing reports the plan paying its own claims. The stop-loss contract reports $177,772 in premium and $0 in commission. The rest of the premium and commission above is on the plan's other insured lines, and none of it is medical premium.
Reported premium across the insured contracts is $1,918,283, with $248,497 in disclosed broker commissions — about 13% of premium.
The most recent policy period ended in December, and the plan year ends December 31. Group contracts typically renew on that annual cycle.
Schedule A insurance contracts
| Carrier | Benefits | Covered | Renews | Premium | Commission |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Life | 1,902 | Jan 1, 2025 | $640,501 | $73,687 |
| THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 1,310 | Jan 1, 2025 | $358,775 | $41,295 |
| THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 343 | Jan 1, 2025 | $128,032 | $32,008 |
| THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 434 | Jan 1, 2025 | $119,308 | $29,827 |
| THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 271 | Jan 1, 2025 | $118,723 | $29,681 |
| THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 579 | Jan 1, 2025 | $232,472 | $26,698 |
| BANKERS FIDELITY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Life | 324 | Jan 1, 2025 | $142,700 | $15,301 |
| SKYWARD SPECIALTY INSURANCE | Stop-loss | — | Jan 1, 2025 | $177,772 | $0 |
Covered = persons covered at policy year end, as filed on Schedule A for that policy — often certificates or one class, not the whole plan. Premium = the filing’s own premium/charges figure; “—” means not credibly reported.
Administrator and service providers
The plan administrator is from line 3a of the main form. The service providers are named on Schedule C of this filing. We publish company names only.
Reported to OSHA
Reported to OSHA for 2025: 178 employees, 2 recordable cases, 1 days away from work.
Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application establishment data, 2025.
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