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IBM estimated last year that data breaches cost companies $148 per stolen record. Given that, not surprisingly, many employers have grown increasingly

Americans are deeply concerned about their financial futures—and our recent research highlights the urgency of addressing retirement income security.

When I was in grade school, each day began with the same ritual: stand at attention facing our nation's flag, place your right hand over your heart, and state, in unison with your classmate...

We have reported from time to time on the recent wave of actuarial equivalence lawsuits that have been brought against sponsors of defined benefit pension plans.

The Puerto Rico Treasury Department recently issued Circular Letter No. 13-02, extending the deadline for employers that sponsor qualified retirement plans benefiting Puerto Rico employees to adopt amendments and file for determination letters on the qualified status of their plans under the 2011 Puerto Rico tax code.

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service released final regulations on Monday implementing — and again delaying parts of — the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act.

The early months of the Trump administration have raised many new questions and revived old ones about employee benefits law and the regulatory direction plan sponsors can expect moving forward.

The surge of class action litigation filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., over the last several years persisted in 2024, with class action litigators in the plaintiffs' bar continuing to focus on challenges ERISA fiduciaries' management of 401(k) and other retirement plans.

On September 19, 2023, the conservative-led Committee on Education and the Workforce (the "Committee") sent a letter to the Department of Labor...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed by President Obama near the end of last year, eliminates a strategy that allowed married couples to maximize their Social Security benefits.

On August 25, 2023, the IRS issued Notice 2023-62, which effectively delays for two years the requirement that certain catch-up contributions in 401(k), 403(b), or governmental...

With immigration enforcement in the news, some employers may be wondering what responsibilities they have related to their retirement plans

A federal district court has rejected a bid by healthcare providers to enforce independent dispute resolution (IDR) awards against an insurer under the No Surprises Act.

A Court ruled that under the Affordable Care Act, an ERISA governed plan exclusion cannot unequivocally bar emergency medical care related to injuries sustained in a fireworks explosion.

A federal court in New Jersey recently applied the arbitrary and capricious standard of review for a denial of benefits claim despite the enactment of an anti-discretionary statute in Minnesota...

In Holland v. Murray, No. 21-cv-567, 2023 WL 2645708 (D.D.C. Mar. 27, 2023), the court held that financial support provided by Congress to a multiemployer pension plan...

A federal district court in Maryland recently declined to certify an interlocutory appeal to the Fourth Circuit on the issue of whether financial institutions can "hardwire" a preference...