I really enjoyed writing this week’s Five Favorites for Friday post. It brought me down the nostalgia trail all the way back to my days defending insurance companies against LTD claims and then routed me back to the future with stories about the latest class action theories against plan fiduciaries and the future of benefit
Hmm. I seem – despite my best intentions – to have ended up with an all ERISA post this week. I promise you there were plenty of very interesting stories and posts about insurance issues in my in-box this week, enough to literally do a second “Five Favorites for Friday” post this week. But I’ve
An embarrassment of riches, as the saying goes. That’s what the avalanche of excellent stories, publications, podcasts, YouTube videos and posts about ERISA, litigation and insurance issues looked like to me this week.
But for my own purposes (namely having time to do my work), this weekly post is limited to five of them, so
A few years ago, I wrote that the history of legal tech made me believe that the incorporation of AI into legal work would not drive down the costs of legal work or decrease the amount of it needed by clients. Instead, the increased horsepower from incorporating AI into legal work would simply increase the
It’s hard to prevent AI from becoming the theme of any end of the week roundup of the news, and that is true here as well to some extent, particularly with regard to the potential risks that AI poses for employers who offer benefit plans. However, I have managed to sneak in some stories about
Last week’s Five Favorites for Friday post ran a little heavy, with a focus on five different issues and articles concerning the Department of Labor’s new proposed regulation intended to somehow reduce class action litigation and increase participants’ exposure to alternative investments all at the same time. That seems like a trick worthy of Penn
It’s déjà vu all over again, as the famous quote goes.
The great thing about being a lawyer long enough is that eventually, everything that is old becomes new again. Early in my career, I was coverage counsel for an insurer who issued policies to various ancillary defendants in the tobacco litigation brought by states
I am going with a special edition of the Five Favorites post this week, solely covering five stories about the Department of Labor’s new proposed regulation addressing the issue of adding alternative assets, such as private equity and crypto, to the investments offered in 401(k) plans. For each one, I have included my own questions
