Law and legal issues

Another legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has companies grappling with new business strategies and tactics.

Another legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has advisers grappling with new business strategies and tactics.

A lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act may well turn out to be a bigger story in the news than in the courts.

The Trump administration is siding with Texas in the state’s bid to convince a federal judge that Obamacare is largely unconstitutional.

In a major win for employers, SCOTUS held that arbitration agreements with class action waivers do not violate the National Labor Relations Act.

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims.

Mutual fund costs have fallen to 48 basis points in 2016 from 77 basis points in 2000 for plan participants, according to data from Investment Company Institute.

Focus turns to the SEC as it considers creating its own higher standard of client care.

Thehigh court opens its new term Monday with a reinforced conservative wing and a case that could give employers a powerful new tool to prevent their workers from filing class-action lawsuits.

Retirement and welfare plans are not subject to DOL regulation, reversing three appellate decisions on the matter.

Potential exposure to litigation can be reduced by identifying key business practices that need modification.

Retirement and welfare plans are not subject to DOL regulation, reversing three appellate decisions on the matter.

Some bonus plans provide for accumulations, multi-year periods and mandatory referral, which could raise a red flag for regulators, says attorney Michael Melbinger.

Some bonus plans provide for accumulations, multi-year periods and mandatory referral, which could raise a red flag for regulators, says attorney Michael Melbinger.

Democrats charge he favored corporations over working Americans as a federal appellate judge.

Promises to repeal Obamacare are proving to be more complicated then they sounded on the campaign trail. With those realities setting in, Peter Orszag, President Obama’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, explores what happens next.

Promises to repeal Obamacare are proving to be more complicated then they sounded on the campaign trail. With those realities setting in, Peter Orszag, President Obama’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, explores what happens next.

Recently, a federal appeals ruling was the latest to craft new parameters, holding that a Maryland general contractor was responsible for unpaid wages for a drywall subcontractor’s employees

The decision landed just hours after the Department of Labor asked for the decision to be postponed while it complies with a Trump order to review the regulation.

In an exclusive one-on-one, the Louisiana senator says, ‘you have to compensate brokers for their knowledge.’