Regulation

I frequently am asked by plan sponsors and plan administrators about how to respond to a request for plan documentation. Under Section 104(b)(4) of ERISA, a plan administrator is obligated to provide certain information when requested by a participant or beneficiary.

UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. medical insurer, is set to face claims that it failed to properly oversee a Las Vegas doctor who gave colonoscopy patients hepatitis C by mishandling the anesthetic Propofol.

Recruiting top talent in this day and age can often mean looking to immigrants with talents in an employer’s field. The immigration process can be a difficult one for an employer to navigate, but staying on top of deadlines can keep you ahead of the game.

All in all, it is fairly clear that the Supreme Court will ultimately have to sort out the issue of birth control coverage in employee health plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Proposed changes would have required the tracking of unscheduled intermittent leave, a move opposed by the Society for Human Resource Management.

The Internal Revenue Service releases a long-awaited set of rules for correcting employee retirement plans that fail to meet the requirements of the Tax Code.

Taken to its extreme, the case could be interpreted as effectively foreclosing participant claims based upon how a well-funded defined benefit pension plan is invested.

A 'large employer' is one with the equivalent of 50 full-time employees within a calendar year. Sound simple enough? Making sure which side of the line your company falls on can be trickier than you might think.

Any employer who maintains the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 300 Logs for workplace injuries and illnesses have only days left to post their annual summary from 2012.

A plan sponsor may use the Voluntary Correction Program to correct a failure to timely adopt a written 403(b) plan; plan sponsors should mail their submissions to the IRS Service Center in Covington, Ky.