Regulation

Legal activity in the year ahead could confront employers with class action lawsuits, a report by Seyfarth shows.

Employers need to make sure that new hires are filling out the revised form beginning Jan. 22.

The big question is whether any decisions upholding the DOL rule will be nullified by actions of the new Trump administration, says benefits lawyer Carol Buckmann.

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is making an offer to Democrats he hopes they won’t refuse: If their states like Obamacare, they can keep it.

Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, will appear for the first time before U.S. senators Wednesday amid growing ethics concerns and uncertainty among Republicans about how they will repeal and replace the ACA.

Looking to improve efficiency, industry is hopeful business-minded President-elect will quickly revise summary plan description standards.

Centenarian Woodrow Cross of Maine’s Cross Insurance shares lessons learned over 60-plus years in the industry.

With President Barack Obama’s federal overtime-pay overhaul likely to die either in court or under Republican Donald Trump, some legislators are trying to replicate it at the state level.

After the Senate voted to pull funding for the Affordable Care Act, industry experts await signs of a specific plan to take Obamacare’s place.

As if the start-again, stop-again saga with the U.S. Department of Labor’s rules increasing the minimum salary threshold for exempt workers wasn’t confusing enough, one state has changed its own rules.