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
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
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
I found myself feeling very zen and mellow when writing this week’s Five Favorites for Friday post. That’s not always the case, as often the post covers topics that get me quite agitated, such as articles about poorly reasoned court decisions or about unnecessary risks to plan participants. That wasn’t the case this week and
I have written before that plan sponsors should try more ERISA breach of fiduciary duty cases to verdict if they, and their insurers, really want to dissuade class action lawyers from filing ERISA breach of fiduciary duty class action cases with weak liability theories or worse, as simply a strike suit targeted at getting a
