In the summer of 2016, over 100 of CIGNA's self-insured health plan clients were sued with the complaint alleging breach of the defendants' fiduciary duties under ERISA for engaging in widespread fraudulent behavior involving the use of plan funds.

The Equal Pay Act (EPA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act generally prohibit covered employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex with regard to compensation.

Wellness programs are an increasingly popular way for employers to encourage their workforce to pursue a healthier lifestyle.

Recently proposed IRS regulations aim to clarify lingering questions about steps employers with self-insured health plans must take to collect and report the taxpayer identification number of covered individuals.

On May 12, 2016, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its new final rule to "Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses."

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued several opinions reversing Obama-era precedent. These changes are all employer-favorable and reduce the risk an employer's policies ...

The end of the year is rapidly approaching.

The question remains, however, what interpretation of the advice exemption may emerge as a result.

Wellness programs are an increasingly popular way for employers to encourage their workforce to pursue a healthier lifestyle.

Lenders who have liens on inventory or accounts receivable know to watch troubled credits closely for possible tax lien filings. However, many of these same lenders do not realize that, under Revised Article 9, lien searches have new built-in pitfalls!

Over the past several years, the major credit card networks (VISA and MASTERCARD) have begun the process of converting credit card usage in the United States to the EMV standard.

Health care providers beware – the United States Supreme Court may have just equipped federal authorities with another tool for pursuing false or fraudulent claims billed to Medicare or Medicaid under the FCA.

I'm sitting on my back deck on an unusually warm January Saturday afternoon, thinking about all the New Year's resolutions I made this year and the hundreds of others I've made in 58 years of life, and mostly broken.

Whether it's a conscious decision or an inadvertent mistake, creditors sometimes try to recover on an old claim that is no longer enforceable by law.

The restriction at issue was N.C.G.S. § 14-202.5, a North Carolina statute prohibits registered sex offenders from using websites available to minors.

We have previously written that the Internet of Things continues to spawn new cybersecurity and privacy concerns.

As data breaches go, they don't get much bigger than this.

​‘Tis the season for listening. Joining a previous Presidential Commission invitation, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC) is now seeking comments on the GLB Safeguards Rule.

Apparently prompted by the recent high-profile wave of ransomware attacks, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights has reminded hospitals, healthcare systems...

Although all fifty states now have data breach notification statutes on the books, a smaller but growing number of states have adopted substantive data privacy laws.