Publications

Fiduciary Obligations to Safeguard Plan Participants’ Data

ARIEL GAKNOKI, June 2017    There have been numerous instances of high-profile cybercrime cases over the past couple of years spurring lively discussions in the ERISA community about the potential threat this type of crime poses to plan assets and personal data of plan participants and beneficiaries. Except when there has been a high profile […]

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California to Move Forward with Auto-IRA Despite Loss of ERISA Safe Harbor

T. KATURI KAYE, June 2017    On May 18, 2017, California State Treasurer John Chiang and Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) issued a press statement announcing that California remains on track to implement the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program (“Secure Choice” or the “Program”), a state-sponsored program requiring employers that […]

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Fiduciary Rule to Go Live June 9, 2017

NICHOLAS WHITE, ROBERT GOWER and ADRINE ADJEMIAN, May 2017    Following months of uncertainty stemming from a February 3, 2017, Presidential memorandum ordering the Secretary of Labor to conduct a review of the final fiduciary advice regulatory package (the “Final Rule”), including a 60-day delay in its applicability date, it seems all but certain the […]

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ACA Replacement Clears Its First Hurdle: An Analysis of What’s Next (Trucker Huss Webinar on May 24)

ERIC SCHILLINGER, May 2017    On Thursday, May 4, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a budget reconciliation bill that would repeal and replace many provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that relate to the individual insurance market, Medicaid and employer-sponsored group health plans (GHPs). […]

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(Mild) Relief for Safe-Harbor Hardship Administration

ADRINE ADJEMIAN and BENJAMIN F. SPATER, March 2017    Provided that certain notice requirements have been satisfied, employers and third-party administrators (“TPAs”) can now allow participants requesting safe-harbor hardship distributions to provide a summary of information contained in source documents evidencing their hardship event in lieu of the source documents, as long as they maintain […]

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When Close Is Not Good Enough: A Shift Towards Strict Compliance for ERISA Claim Procedures

JENNIFER TRUONG, March 2017    A string of cases in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals is putting ERISA claims administrators on notice that falling short of strict compliance with the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) claims and appeal regulations may cost administrators a deferential standard of review. And, this shift towards “strict compliance” is not […]

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