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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2025 (latest filing) · Form 5500

River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.

Real estate & rental · Franklin, Tennessee · EIN ending 9242 · doing business as Empower Rental Group

Updated Filing received by DOL

River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc., a real estate & rental employer in Franklin, Tennessee, reported 401 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2025. Its Form 5500 shows $6.1M in insurance premiums across 2 contracts and $2,979 in broker commissions and fees, 0.0% of medical premium against a national median of 3.8% among plans that paid commissions in plan year 2024. The plan is fully insured (an insurance carrier pays claims). The Department of Labor received the filing on June 4, 2026, before the deadline.

Participants
401
+14.9% vs 2024
Premiums filed
$6.1M
+17.6% vs 2024
Broker commissions + fees
$2,979
+7.4% vs 2024
Commission rate
0.0%
of medical premium · median 3.8%

Who was paid on River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.'s plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc. filed for 2025.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Watchtower Technologies, Inc. · Chicago, IL$0$2,979$2,9791

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2025, as published in EBSA's 2025 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

Every insurance contract reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabamahealth, dental877$6.1M——
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companyvision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability798—$2,979—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2025. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc. compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.
$2,979
Commission rate, % of medical premium
River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.
0.0%

Premium per covered person on medical contracts: $6,924 a year (national median $7,274).

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Year over year

$5.2M$6.1MPremiums$2,773$2,979Broker pay20242025
River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2024 vs 2025
20242025Change
Participants349401+14.9%
Premiums filed$5,161,201$6,072,020+17.6%
Broker commissions + fees$2,773$2,979+7.4%
Commission rate0.0%0.0%+0.0 pts

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2024 and 2025.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
Empower Rental Group#501 · insuranceDecember 31, 2025June 4, 2026before deadline401

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc. pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2025?

River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.'s 2025 Form 5500 reports $2,979 in broker commissions and fees across 2 insurance contracts ($0 in commissions, $2,979 in fees), with Watchtower Technologies, Inc. receiving the largest share.

Is River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.'s health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2025 filing indicates the plan is fully insured (an insurance carrier pays claims). Medical coverage is written by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama.

How does River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc.'s broker compensation compare with similar employers?

River City Equipment Rental & Sales, Inc. paid 0.0% of medical premium in commissions and fees. The median for employers with 200-499 participants is 3.6%, and the median in Tennessee is 3.9%. Percentages are computed only on fully insured medical contracts with filed premiums.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.