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
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
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
It’s been a fascinating week in insurance and ERISA news, making it a good week to be the author of an ongoing weekly series on hot topics, articles, posts and the like in these areas of law. Interestingly (to me, anyway), the first three stories directly concern cases and issues I have litigated many times