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How Plan Sponsors Can Mitigate Risk in PBM Contracts

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For employers offering benefit plans, fiduciary responsibility is not just a legal designation. Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, the fiduciary duty is the highest standard of care...more

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PBM Contracts Could Expose Plan Sponsors to Fiduciary Liability

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A plan sponsor’s fiduciary duty to be transparent in Pharmacy Benefit Manager contracts safeguards plan participants’ interests and mitigates the risk of litigation, regulatory penalties, and reputational harm, say Hall...more

Verrill

The Gag Clause Quandary for Self-Insured Group Health Plans—New FAQ Guidance

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The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury, with the Office of Personnel Management (the “Departments”) jointly released FAQs About Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Implementation Part 69...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

How Long Does Your CBA Obligate You to Pay for Retiree Health Insurance Coverage?

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If you are a municipal employer in New York State struggling to find the answer to that question, you are not alone. In the absence of express language in your collective bargaining agreement, a definitive response is...more

Jackson Walker

Preparing Employers and Employees for 2021 Benefit Plans Decisions

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Join Jackson Walker and Lockton Dunning Benefits as panelists discuss the upcoming 2021 open enrollment season and provide advice on how to communicate with employees about new programs and benefits, including new initiatives...more

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Circuit Courts Grapple With the Permanence of Retiree Health Benefits Under Collective Bargaining Agreements

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On August 7, 2019, in Kelly v. Honeywell International, the Second Circuit handed down the latest decision in a series of cases across the country on a company’s obligation to provide lifetime health care to retirees....more

Burr & Forman

DOL Provides Transitional Relief to Association Health Plans

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On April 29, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”) released a policy statement providing transitional relief from the potential adverse consequences arising from a District Court’s vacating portions of the...more

Polsinelli

Buyer Beware: Successor Employer Required by Court to Continue Retiree Health Benefits Under Language in Contract

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Mergers and acquisitions can be complicated transactions, particularly when the entity to be acquired has employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with a union. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Sixth Circuit Follows Ordinary Principles Of Contract Law To Find Whirlpool Is Not Obligated To Provide Lifetime Retiree...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Over the last several years, the law governing disputes on lifetime retiree health benefits in the Sixth Circuit has had many twists and turns....more

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The Supreme Court Says Goodbye to the Yard-Man Inference Again and Reaffirms Ordinary Principles of Contract Law Apply When...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Disputes over lifetime retiree health benefits for union retirees may become a memory of the past. For the second time in three years, the Supreme Court confirms that collective bargaining agreements must...more

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