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Top on the list of concerns for many employers is the forthcoming Affordable Care Act tax on high-cost group health plans. While benefit advisers are already working with their clients to avoid the so-called “Cadillac tax,” many questions remain unanswered. Here are the top 5 open issues related to the Cadillac Tax, according to Richard Stover and Leslye Laderman, both principals in the Knowledge Resource Center of Buck Consultants.

Both groups place a high importance on life insurance and are most receptive to it, LIMRA finds.

As calls for the EEOC to issue guidance on wellness programs continue, employees are on board with their employers’ involvement in health and wellness programs.

The University of Washington danced its way into the Guinness Book of World Records this week, also marking a year since the inception of the university’s revolutionary employee engagement program.

Although the industry anxiously awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of providing subsidies to people buying health insurance through the federal marketplace, few Americans have heard of the case that is set to go before the high court in March.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission came under fire during a U.S. Senate committee hearing on employer-sponsored wellness programs Thursday, with one witness calling on Congress to end the “sorry state of affairs."

The high court’s unanimous ruling affirms contract law principles.

As many as 6 million U.S. taxpayers will have to pay a penalty of as much as 1 percent of income because they went without health insurance in part or all of 2014, the Treasury Department said.

The Affordable Care Act will have almost no effect on most taxpayers’ tax preparation and filing experience, according to federal officials.

Stomach, headache claims rise significantly following the Super Bowl, study shows.