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Benefits Basics – When an Employee Becomes Disabled: A Resource Guide for HR & Benefits Professionals

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When an employee becomes disabled, a variety of questions arise regarding that employee’s entitlement to compensation and benefits. As a member of your company’s human resources or employee benefits department, employees and...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - December 2024

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This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions including the impact of a COVID furlough on eligibility for LTD benefits, what constitutes a breach of an employer’s fiduciary duty, what defines total proof of disability or...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - June 2024

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This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions with issues spanning physician power of attorney to preexisting exclusions and the fiduciary duty of an insurance company....more

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Best Practices in Administering Benefit Claims #4 – Know (and Understand) the Law: Full and Fair Review

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This week in our blog series on best practices in administering benefit claims, we discuss the importance of knowing and, importantly, understanding the laws governing benefit claim administration. Section 503 of ERISA...more

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New Disability Claims Procedures May Apply to Qualified and Nonqualified Retirement Plans, Too

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As mentioned in our recent blog, the date for complying with the new disability claims procedures (April 2, 2018) is rapidly approaching. In addition to making sure disability plans comply with the new rules, employers...more

Winstead PC

Updates for the New Year - Executive Compensation & Benefits

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In spite of certain sound bites you probably heard late last year, the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) was not repealed for employers. The individual mandate penalty was reduced to zero for a few years, beginning after 2018, so...more

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ERISA Newsletter - Fourth Quarter 2017

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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

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Timing is Everything: Tenth Circuit Overturns Insurer’s Disability Decision as Arbitrary and Capricious

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Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir....more

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