As benefit brokers and advisers, youre likely aware of ERISA, or the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. But on the year of its 40th anniversary, as more U.S. Department of Labor auditors are out in the field than possibly ever before, why not make sure you refresh your ERISA knowledge to protect yourself and your clients?
This is the case that Elliot N. Dinkin, president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based Cowden Associates Inc., made to an audience of at least 100 brokers and advisers at the National Association of Health Underwriters annual convention in Scottsdale, Ariz. during a session on Monday.