News & Analysis as of

Benefit Plan Sponsors › Cybersecurity › Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

HHS’s Proposed Security Rule Updates Could Require Group Health Plan Document Changes and New Plan Sponsor Security Practices

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on

Proposed regulations may require employers to invest additional resources to safeguard group health plan participants’ protected health information. In this installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

2024 qualified retirement plan and health and welfare plan checklist: A very demure, very mindful year

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on

With 2024 drawing to a close, employers should review any actions needed before year-end with respect to their benefit plans, as well as some upcoming deadlines that may require advance planning. As the adage attributed to...more

Snell & Wilmer

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

Snell & Wilmer on

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Group Health Plan Sponsors Take Note: New Developments Relating to the Privacy and Cybersecurity of Plan Participants’ Health...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on

There have been two important developments in the law applicable to the privacy and cybersecurity of group health plan participants’ health information. Plan sponsors must review plan policies and procedures, provider...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

DOL Continues Active ERISA Enforcement and Focus on Cybersecurity Including Health and Welfare Plans

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits on

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor (DOL) has continued to be active in civil and criminal enforcement investigations of ERISA’s fiduciary duties. This blog post details two...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Five Workplace Challenges for Employers in Changing Times

Epstein Becker & Green on

As Gordon Gekko famously pronounced in the 1980s classic movie Wall Street, “The most valuable commodity … is information.” Those words have never rung truer than in today’s world and in today’s workplaces. And as the old...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Cybersecurity Threats: What Retirement Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Need to Know – and Do

Poyner Spruill LLP on

What is the Risk? The loss of employee personal information due to a cyber breach is an ever-increasing concern to all employers. After years of work to put into place protocols to comply with HIPAA’s requirements on...more

Winstead PC

Cybersecurity Risks and Liabilities for Employers, Retirement Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries

Winstead PC on

Many employers historically were only concerned with privacy and security for health plans under the privacy regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (‘‘HIPAA’’) and State laws;...more

Winstead PC

Liabilities and Risk from Failing to Address the Cybersecurity of Your Retirement Plan Data

Winstead PC on

In the current 114th session of Congress, there have been 204 bills, resolutions and amendments introduced addressing cybersecurity in their text, if you had any doubt about whether you should be concerned about cybersecurity...more

9 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide