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Navigating the New Normal: Top Employee Benefits Risks for Healthcare Employers in 2025

Saul Ewing LLP on 8/11/2025

As the healthcare industry grapples with the impact of the 2025 Comprehensive Reform Act, which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, offering benefits to its own employees continues to be both a tool for employee retention...more

2024 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health and Welfare

Snell & Wilmer on 11/15/2024

We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate SW Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues. Parts 2,...more

The Time Has Come, A Fact’s A Fact: Consider Adding a Welfare Plan Committee

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial on 9/29/2023

The time may have come to add a welfare plan committee to your company’s governance of employee benefit plans. New legal obligations and other developments impose fiduciary risks for welfare plans similar to what already...more

ERISA Newsletter - Third Quarter 2019

Proskauer Rose LLP on 10/11/2019

In this edition of our Newsletter, we take a look at a pair of cases that, while unrelated, together remind us of the importance of having clear plan rules in place that reflect the plan sponsor’s intention. The first article...more

ERISA Alert: An Update on Health and Welfare and Retirement Plans

Jackson Walker on 4/4/2019

Health and Welfare Plan Update - It is 9:00 p.m., do you know where your health plan data is? As IT systems continue to expand, and data is accessed, moved and stored in many new and different ways, the Office for Civil...more

ERISA Plan Controversy: Rising Stakes for Those Unprepared

McDermott Will & Schulte on 3/22/2019

WHAT’S THE EXPOSURE? • Settlements up to $140 million • Last year alone, settlements of $17 million, $22 million, $24 million, and among others • Plaintiffs’ lawyers generally get 1/3 of the settlement amounts • Plaintiffs’...more

December 2018 Client Advisory

Verrill on 12/18/2018

This Client Advisory highlights important developments in the law governing employee benefit plans and executive compensation over the past year. It offers insight into what these developments mean for employers and plan...more

ERISA Newsletter - First Quarter 2018

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/11/2018

Despite the change in seasons, there appears to be no change in the pace of complex and class action ERISA litigation. Investments in defined contribution plans—both 401(k) and 403(b) plans—continue to be the leading target...more

Issues Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Should Watch

Winstead PC on 3/13/2018

Once upon a time, our retirement plan worries were primarily generated by the U.S. Department of Labor (“DoL”) or the Internal Revenue Service and their regulatory and enforcement efforts. In more recent times we have seen...more

ERISA Newsletter - Fourth Quarter 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on 1/9/2018

Editor's Overview - For over two decades, federal law has required covered health plans and insurers to ensure that certain mental health benefits are in parity with offered medical/surgical benefits. The meaning of...more

ERISA Newsletter - First Quarter 2017

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/6/2017

After a brief hiatus, Proskauer's ERISA Newsletter is back with a brand new look. We hope you like it and find it is easier to navigate. In addition to implementing our new format, we have moved to a quarterly publication...more

The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - March 2016

Proskauer Rose LLP on 3/29/2016

Editor’s Overview - This month we review the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Montanile v. Board of Trustees of National Elevator Industries Health Benefit Plan where the Supreme Court considered the scope of...more

The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - August 2015

Proskauer Rose LLP on 8/28/2015

Editor's Overview - As the summer draws to a close, this month's Newsletter previews three cases that the U.S. Supreme Court already has agreed to hear that ought to be of particular interest to ERISA plan sponsors and...more

Benefits Litigation Update – July 2015

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/27/2015

Welcome to the new, rejuvenated version of the Benefits Litigation Update, which we bring you jointly with the law firm of Epstein Becker Green. Our goal is to provide a concise and, we hope, insightful glimpse into recent...more

How a Plan Sponsor Can Avoid Being a Deer Caught in the Headlights

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 4/23/2014

The term “deer in the headlights” explains the mental state of a person who shows behavioral signs that remind us of a deer subjected to a car’s headlights where the deer is in such panic that they show no motor reaction to...more

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