This is because the doctrine often excuses
plan administrators that don't turn square corners in following ERISA regulations.
This means that insurers and
plan administrators outside the Seventh Circuit may be left wondering what law to follow.
1, to give disability insurers, employers, and benefit
plan administrators and trade groups more time to prove that the new regulations would hurt the group disability market.
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Plan Administrators URPC, MGA Consultants Merge
United also argued that employers should be the defendants, not the third-party claims administrators, since employers were the official
plan administrators.
A new company in the market, Ultimate Settlements Inc., is trying to take a different approach, by focusing tightly on bill negotiations for health insurers, employers, benefit
plan administrators, brokers and the patients themselves.
The following tips can help
plan administrators hire an auditor who will perform a high-quality audit.
Rather, the department published amendment 404a-5 to the participant disclosure regulation, changing the definition of "at least annually thereafter" from "at least once in any 12-month period" to "at least once in any 14-month period." With this change, the department is attempting to give
plan administrators some additional flexibility when, under the regulation, they send out the annual disclosures.
The VisualCalc Retirement Planning Tool is a new, web-based customer self-service tool that retirement
plan administrators, including third party administrators and plan sponsors, can offer their plan participants to help them properly prepare for their retirement.
For employee benefit
plan administrators, the book offers answers to questions related to ERISA compliance requirements, as well as questions related to the interpretation of ERISA and Internal Revenue Code sections and regulations.
HEALTH CARE COSTS continued to climb in 2010, but not nearly as quickly as carriers and
plan administrators had predicted.