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Happy Privacy Day: Emerging Issues in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and AI in the Workplace

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/29/2025

As the integration of technology in the workplace accelerates, so do the challenges related to privacy, cybersecurity, and the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI). Human resource professionals and in-house counsel...more

2024 Health Benefits Year: A Year to Remember

Alston & Bird on 12/12/2024

The year was packed with developments for health and welfare benefits plans. Our Health Benefits Team reviews 2024, from new data privacy rules to disaster tax relief....more

2024 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” List (Part 1) Health and Welfare

Snell & Wilmer on 11/15/2024

We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate SW Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues. Parts 2,...more

Group Health Plan Sponsors Take Note: New Developments Relating to the Privacy and Cybersecurity of Plan Participants’ Health...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/2/2024

There have been two important developments in the law applicable to the privacy and cybersecurity of group health plan participants’ health information. Plan sponsors must review plan policies and procedures, provider...more

Benefits Monthly Minute - September 2024

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL on 9/19/2024

The September Monthly Minute highlights the DOL’s extension of existing cybersecurity guidance to health and welfare plans and also addresses the new HIPAA reproductive health privacy rule....more

DOL Expands Fiduciary Obligations for Cybersecurity to Health and Welfare Plans

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 9/9/2024

A little more than three years ago, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) posted cybersecurity guidance on its website for ERISA plan fiduciaries. That guidance extended only to ERISA-covered retirement plans, despite health and...more

Don't Forget About ERISA in Your Health Plan’s Cybersecurity Efforts: Important Reminders for Plan Fiduciaries in the Wake of...

Fisher Phillips on 7/5/2024

Earlier this year, a cyberattack on a leading healthcare claims processing provider had an unprecedented impact on patients and healthcare providers across the country. While group health plans were not directly targeted in...more

HHS Releases Cybersecurity Guide

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/30/2023

The US Department of Health and Human Services recently updated its guide to help the private and public healthcare sectors develop cybersecurity protocols that address NIST’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure...more

DOL Continues Active ERISA Enforcement and Focus on Cybersecurity Including Health and Welfare Plans

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits on 2/17/2023

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the US Department of Labor (DOL) has continued to be active in civil and criminal enforcement investigations of ERISA’s fiduciary duties. This blog post details two...more

DOL Has Started To Audit Compliance With Its Cybersecurity Guidelines

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/15/2021

In April, we posted about the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issuing cybersecurity guidance for employee retirement plans. That is, April 14, 2021. Shortly thereafter, the...more

COVID-19: Need-to-Know Employer Information on Data Privacy and Recent Governmental Actions

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 3/16/2020

As employers respond to the daily influx of information about COVID-19, Faegre Drinker continues to update its Employer’s Action Guide and monitor dynamic federal and state developments. Some governmental agencies have...more

K&L Gates Triage: Triage in 2019: Health Care Topics to Watch in the New Year

K&L Gates LLP on 1/31/2019

As K&L Gates begins its third season of Triage: Rapid Legal Lessons for Busy Health Care Professionals, Hilary Bowman previews several topics that the health care practice group anticipates will have a significant impact on...more

Five Workplace Challenges for Employers in Changing Times

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/30/2018

As Gordon Gekko famously pronounced in the 1980s classic movie Wall Street, “The most valuable commodity … is information.” Those words have never rung truer than in today’s world and in today’s workplaces. And as the old...more

Legal Issues Business Leaders Need to Know in 2018

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 1/17/2018

In recent years, the CFPB has struck fear into the C-suites of financial services companies. The agency was extraordinarily active in rulemaking that addresses every aspect of lending, prepaid cards and arbitration clauses in...more

I-22- The Benefits of Benefits: A Roundtable Discussion on Trending Benefits Issues for 2018

Cozen O'Connor on 12/12/2017

From tax and health care reform to employee wellness programs to even handheld electronic devices, why should your company be interested in today's hot benefits issues? In today's episode of Employment Law Now, a roundtable...more

Cybersecurity Threats: What Retirement Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Need to Know – and Do

Poyner Spruill LLP on 3/8/2017

What is the Risk? The loss of employee personal information due to a cyber breach is an ever-increasing concern to all employers. After years of work to put into place protocols to comply with HIPAA’s requirements on...more

Pension Plan Suffers Cybersecurity Attack, ERISA Advisory Council Offers Cybersecurity Recommendations to DOL

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/11/2016

It has been reported that infamous bank robber, Slick Willie Sutton, once said, “I rob banks because that’s where the money is.” Data thieves, understandably, have a similar strategy – go where the data is. The retail...more

ERISA and Cybersecurity

McGuireWoods LLP on 6/6/2016

Employee benefit plan data stored online may include participants’ names and Social Security numbers, account information and protected health information (PHI), all of which are inviting targets for hackers....more

HHS Releases HIPAA Privacy and Security Audit Guidelines as it Starts its Second Round of Audits and Continues Enforcement Efforts

Winstead PC on 6/3/2016

During April 2016 the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) posted lengthy audit guidelines for HIPAA Privacy and Security on its website (over 400 pages). As HHS starts its audits of health care providers, health...more

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