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On August 7, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (the Order) instructing federal agencies to expand access to alternative asset investments for participants in defined-contribution retirement plans...

But do headaches constitute a disabling condition justifying ERISA-governed long term disability benefits?

You know that failing to follow Department of Labor (DOL) claims regulations can result in the court using the de novo review standard

ERISA plan administrators are constantly pressured by claimants to render decisions quickly…. This is especially true with short term disability claims.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) finalized several major revisions to its statutory remediation standards rules (N.J.A.C. 7-26D).

Just when the conventional wisdom seemed to be that the CFPB was no longer going to assert that it could not request funding from the Federal Reserve because of combined losses at the Federal Reserve Banks...

The CFPB’s Office of Inspector General is still investigating the agency’s workforce and contracting moves to see what impact it has had on agency actions.

The House Financial Services Committee has approved its part of the massive budget bill, saving some $1 billion by, among other things, slashing the CFPB's budget by more than 60%.

On January 12, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend its national bank chartering regulation, 12 C.F.R. § 5.20...

Republican senators on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee are asking banking regulators to review their process of using Matters Requiring Attention (MRA) in the bank supervisory process.

On this episode of the Ballard Spahr Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, we examine consumer debt and bankruptcy through the lens of Debt's Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy (University of California Press, 2025)...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided guidance on the changes made to the rules governing health savings accounts (HSAs) in the One Big Beautiful Bill, which was enacted this summer.

The Department of Justice announced its first "near miss" non-prosecution agreement under its 2026 Corporate Enforcement Policy, resolving an investigation into Extreme Networks' sales to a Russian weapons manufacturer owned by a sanctioned entity. Despite an untimely self-disclosure made under imminent threat of media exposure, the company received significant credit for cooperation and remediation, resulting in reduced penalties and no compliance monitor.

The State of New York Court of Appeals held that claims against non-debtor related parties, based on their actions to aid or induce Chapter 11 debtors to breach contractual loan covenants, were not...

Though largely absent from mainstream news, proposed reforms to patent law are poised to affect everything from biotech startups to major pharmaceutical R&D programs.

The Fifth Circuit and the Federal District Court of Connecticut have issued conflicting decisions on whether service providers may sue to enforce arbitration awards under the No Surprises Rules...

The Mortgage Bankers Association has filed a federal lawsuit challenging New Jersey's disparate impact discrimination rules, arguing they lack constitutional safeguards and conflict with federal law. The complaint asserts the rules impose unrecoverable compliance costs on lenders and create operational burdens by requiring different policies across states.

This term, the United States Supreme Court is poised to address whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause provides an independent cause of action for plaintiffs seeking redress against states for takings.