For employers that sponsor and administer employee benefit plans, various pieces of federal legislation create a multilayered regime of detailed regulatory requirements. Primarily, employer-sponsored benefit plans are...more
Best practices in the area of ERISA health and welfare plan governance are evolving. Concerned group health plan fiduciaries have been evaluating compliance processes while facing a set of rigorous fiduciary duties imposed by...more
On Jan. 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s ruling in Hughes v. Northwestern University, and remanded the case for further consideration, bringing new life to current...more
On June 20, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) released a final rule expanding the availability of health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) employers can use to pay for or...more
After much delay and uncertainty, the U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule on disability benefit claims procedures is set to become effective April 1. The rule, which applies to ERISA employee benefit plans (including...more
As part of the executive branch’s ongoing efforts to peel back portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and its companion statute, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (referred...more