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Commentary: Your company, as a 401(k) sponsor, is an ERISA fiduciary. Here's how to take a step back and figure out what to do about it.

From brokers and advisers to industry and political leaders, influential groups across the nation spoke with EBA on the most pressing and interesting benefit topics of the month. See the most important news you may have missed from Employee Benefit Adviser stories in March.

Ronnell Nolan’s HAFA has taken off in Louisiana, and now she has her sights set on major federal legislation.

Although U.S. workers on a whole are more satisfied with their current financial situation than in years past, most (58%) remain concerned about financial stability in retirement and say they plan to continue working until age 70 or later, a new Towers Watson survey shows.

A new report card tracking health care price transparency finds that 45 states failed to offer essential information to consumers shopping in the U.S. health system, a significant step back since easier-to-understand public health solutions were to have become the norm in this post-Affordable Care Act world.

In recent years, employers of globally mobile employees have been focused on maximizing the return on their investment. Depending upon the home and host location, a move to host terms can sometimes result in unintended consequences to the detriment of the employee and/or the employer.

Whatever the Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, it won’t likely have broad implications for all employers, according to Howard Shapiro, partner and head of Proskauer’s ERISA litigation group in New Orleans.

Tobacco, food choices and portion size, physical inactivity and unmanaged stress are the four major lifestyle choices that account for the majority of chronic disease in the U.S., said Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer and chair of the Wellness Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, this week at the Institute for Health and Productivity Management annual conference

Americans will get more time to enroll in Obamacare insurance plans if they started the process but were unable to complete it before the March 31 deadline.

Commentary: The deadline for discrimination testing has come and gone. If your clients are like many employers, they didn’t do so well.