401(k)

Employer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026The New IDR Operations Final Rule: What Employer Group Health Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know

403(b)

Required Roth Catch-Up Goes Live in 2026

Actuarial Equivalence

What is Reasonable? Lessons in Pension Plan Actuarial Equivalence from Three Recent Cases

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence in Employee Benefits: Litigation, Tools, and Emerging Regulation

Assets Under Management

Employer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026Caesars Fiduciaries Hit Jackpot Due to Prudent Processes

Compliance

More Employer Trump Account Contribution Guidance: Treasury Answers the Cafeteria Plan Question and Sets the Rules for Nondiscrimination TestingThe New IDR Operations Final Rule: What Employer Group Health Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know

Defined Benefit Plans

More Employer Trump Account Contribution Guidance: Treasury Answers the Cafeteria Plan Question and Sets the Rules for Nondiscrimination TestingDOL's New 401(k) Fiduciary Safe Harbor: A Roadmap for Alternative Assets and the Litigation Risks That Remain

DOL

Trump Accounts Get an ERISA Pass:  Practical Implications of the DOL’s New GuidanceDOL's New 401(k) Fiduciary Safe Harbor: A Roadmap for Alternative Assets and the Litigation Risks That Remain

Economic Downturn

Winter Is Coming: Employee Benefits Planning for the Eventual Economic DownturnWinter Is Coming: Employee Benefits Planning for the Eventual Economic Downturn

Employer Contributions Program

More Employer Trump Account Contribution Guidance: Treasury Answers the Cafeteria Plan Question and Sets the Rules for Nondiscrimination TestingThe New IDR Operations Final Rule: What Employer Group Health Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know

Employer Stock

Recent Decisions Cast Doubt on Stock Drop as a Basis to State a Claim Against ESOP TrusteeJander v. IBM: an Aberration or the Start of a Plaintiff-Friendly Trend in ERISA Employer Stock Cases?

ERISA

Employer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026What is Reasonable? Lessons in Pension Plan Actuarial Equivalence from Three Recent Cases

ERISA Litigation

Employer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026Lewandowski v. Johnson and Johnson: Another PBM Fee Case Falls on Standing — Important Lessons for Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries

ESOP

Decoding DOL’s 2026 Enforcement Strategy for Plan Sponsors and Service ProvidersUpdate: Common Interest, Denied

Fee Cases

The New IDR Operations Final Rule: What Employer Group Health Plan Fiduciaries Need to KnowNinth Circuit Addresses ERISA Preemption of Claims Involving “Fee Forgiving”

FEMA

Avenues for Benefit Plan-Related Relief in Response to the California Wildfires

FICA

Required Roth Catch-Up Goes Live in 2026

Fiduciaries

Employer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026What the Latest Federal IDR Process Data Means for Self-Insured Group Health Plans

Fiduciary Duty

Employer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026Plaintiffs’ Pension Risk Transfer Claims Don’t Stand: Verizon Scores Sweeping Dismissal, and DOL Urges Same Fate for Lockheed

Form 5500

Shutdown Showdown: What to Expect if the Government Goes Dark AgainUpdates and Best Practices Regarding Form 5500 Filings for Single-Employer Defined Contribution Plans

Health & Welfare

What the Latest Federal IDR Process Data Means for Self-Insured Group Health PlansA Surprising Reason Your Health Plan Costs May Increase

Health Plans

“Double Dip” Health Plans Marketed to Employers: Too Good to Be True

Healthcare

What the Latest Federal IDR Process Data Means for Self-Insured Group Health PlansExtreme Couponing: How Manufacturer Coupons Impact Health Plans

HIPAA

First-Ever HIPAA Enforcement Against Self-Funded Health Plans: What Employers Need to Know

Investment Fiduciaries

PRT Litigation Interim Scorecard: Defendants Are Up, But Standing Remains In FluxDOL Again Enters the Investment Advice Fray With Proposed Retirement Security Rule

Investment Management Agreement

Caesars Fiduciaries Hit Jackpot Due to Prudent Processes

Investment Policy Statement

Caesars Fiduciaries Hit Jackpot Due to Prudent Processes

IRA

Trump Accounts on the Menu: A New Cafeteria Plan Option, Other Details from Initial Treasury Guidance

Mental Health Parity

The 2025 Mental Health Parity Report to Congress: Practical Takeaways for Plan Sponsors

MHPAEA

The 2025 Mental Health Parity Report to Congress: Practical Takeaways for Plan Sponsors

Notice 2025-68

Trump Accounts on the Menu: A New Cafeteria Plan Option, Other Details from Initial Treasury Guidance

PBM

Lewandowski v. Johnson and Johnson: Another PBM Fee Case Falls on Standing — Important Lessons for Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries

Pension Plan

What is Reasonable? Lessons in Pension Plan Actuarial Equivalence from Three Recent Cases

Plan Sponsors

What the Latest Federal IDR Process Data Means for Self-Insured Group Health PlansThe New IDR Operations Final Rule: What Employer Group Health Plan Fiduciaries Need to Know

PRTs

Plaintiffs’ Pension Risk Transfer Claims Don’t Stand: Verizon Scores Sweeping Dismissal, and DOL Urges Same Fate for Lockheed

QJSA

What is Reasonable? Lessons in Pension Plan Actuarial Equivalence from Three Recent Cases

QPSA

What is Reasonable? Lessons in Pension Plan Actuarial Equivalence from Three Recent Cases

Retirement Plans

Recent Paper and Postmark Changes Present an Opportunity for Plan AdministratorsDecoding DOL’s 2026 Enforcement Strategy for Plan Sponsors and Service Providers

RFP

Caesars Fiduciaries Hit Jackpot Due to Prudent Processes

Roth

Required Roth Catch-Up Goes Live in 2026

Secure 2.0

Recent Paper and Postmark Changes Present an Opportunity for Plan AdministratorsRequired Roth Catch-Up Goes Live in 2026

Student Loan Program

Guidance Is Needed for SECURE 2.0’s Student Loan Matching Contribution Programs

Trump Accounts

Trump Accounts Get an ERISA Pass:  Practical Implications of the DOL’s New GuidanceTrump Account Guidance Part II: How to Open an Account, Claim the $1,000 Government Contribution

Uncategorized

Section 129 DCAP Nondiscrimination Testing: New IRS Proposed Regulations Resolve Decades of AmbiguityEmployer Health Plan Design Under Fire: How "Financial Dominance" ERISA Claims Are Expanding in 2026