Daily Compliance News: July 22, 2025, The I-9 Hell Edition
FCPA Compliance Report: Ethical Challenges in AI, Data Protection, and Sports with Andre Paris
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms
Great Women in Compliance – Compliance is the Floor, Ethics is the Ceiling with Ellen Hunt
Great Women in Compliance: Creating Space to Speak Up: The Story Behind Psst.org
Hidden Fees in the Live-Event Ticketing and Short-Term Lodging Industries
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Estate Planning and the Corporate Transparency Act
Episode 330 – Halyna Senyk on Anti-Corruption Progress in Ukraine
ESG Masterclass — ESG and Impact Investing
FCPA Compliance Report – Jonathan Wilson on The NSBU Decision
Áine Bryn of Mercer UK on Demonstrating the Strategic Credibility of the Marketing Function - Passle's CMO Series Podcast
Podcast - The CFPB's Proposal to Create a Public Registry
Breaking Mindsets with Sharon Sorkin from Ford on Being Reliably Transparent
Auditing and Monitoring in Healthcare
Exploring The ‘S’ In ESG & What To Expect In 2023
The Line Between Gift Giving and Bribery
The New Cold War: Risk, Sanctions, Compliance Episode 21: "Interview with Drago Kos of the OECD Working Group on Bribery"
ABA Sound Advice: Conducting Civil Rights Audits: Benefits and Best Practices
Early Advocates of Organic Food Products, Amy’s Kitchen Believes in the Benefits of a Fully Regenerative Ecosystem and Aims to Help Heal the Planet Through Its Business
On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a significant expansion of its compliance assistance tools by launching an Opinion Letter Program across five key enforcement agencies, including the Employee...more
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
As mentioned in our recent blog post, the recently filed class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (Lewandowski v. Johnson & Johnson et. al., D.N.J., No. 1:24-cv-00671 (Feb. 5, 2024)) over alleged excessive prescription...more
Certain provisions of the Transparency in Coverage Final Regulations and the Consolidated Appropriation Act, 2021 (“CAA”) require group health plans and/or their vendors to report information to federal agencies. On December...more
A Busy Week in Congress - This week will be very busy on Capitol Hill. Six hearings will focus specifically on healthcare. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a legislative hearing to review 17 pieces of...more
The Transparency in Coverage Final Rules issued in 2020 require most non-grandfathered insurers and group health plan sponsors to make publicly available online three machine-readable data files with health care pricing...more
Seeking to improve transparency in the cost of health services, federal actions in the past few years have led to new federal rules and regulations for health systems, benefit administrators, and health plan sponsors. The...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAA” or the “Act”) includes several transparency requirements for health plans. Some of these requirements are already in effect for plan years beginning on or after January 1,...more
The old adage “you can’t get where you’re going unless you know where you are” has never seemed more true than when applied to the current mélange of healthcare transparency guidance. Fortunately, a fading relic from...more
Group health plan sponsors soon will face daunting new disclosure and transparency requirements under multiple laws including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the No Surprises Act (the Act) and the Consolidated Appropriations...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (Act), enacted on December 27, 2020, contains a number of provisions that may impact the design and administration of employer-sponsored group health plans and flexible spending...more
New rules published last month likely require your employer health plan to phase-in certain disclosures over a three-year period beginning in one year: 1. January 1, 2022 (three files must be disclosed): For plan years...more
On November 15, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the “Agencies”) issued a proposed "Transparency in Coverage" rule that would require most...more
Starsky had Hutch, Cagney had Lacey, Fred had Ginger, Bogie had Bacall, Bonnie had Clyde, Bert had Ernie, Baskin had Robbins, and Sheriff Bart had the Waco Kid. Whether it's law enforcement, entertainment, or any type of...more
When I was a child, I remember bringing the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever for my first grade class’ Chanukah party (I went to a Jewish day school). To this day, I still don’t how to operate a record player. Around the...more