It was a very interesting and somewhat esoteric week in the media when it comes to insurance and ERISA, with a lot of good reading on withdrawal liability, the Department of Labor regulation on alternative investments in retirement plans and
It was an eclectic week on the insurance and ERISA front, at least in my feed. Eclectic, but fascinating. I read at least ten articles this week that could have warranted blog posts all their own, but here are the
I really enjoyed writing this week’s Five Favorites for Friday post. It brought me down the nostalgia trail all the way back to my days defending insurance companies against LTD claims and then routed me back to the future with
Hmm. I seem – despite my best intentions – to have ended up with an all ERISA post this week. I promise you there were plenty of very interesting stories and posts about insurance issues in my in-box this week,
An embarrassment of riches, as the saying goes. That’s what the avalanche of excellent stories, publications, podcasts, YouTube videos and posts about ERISA, litigation and insurance issues looked like to me this week.
But for my own purposes (namely having
A few years ago, I wrote that the history of legal tech made me believe that the incorporation of AI into legal work would not drive down the costs of legal work or decrease the amount of it needed by
It’s hard to prevent AI from becoming the theme of any end of the week roundup of the news, and that is true here as well to some extent, particularly with regard to the potential risks that AI poses for
Last week’s Five Favorites for Friday post ran a little heavy, with a focus on five different issues and articles concerning the Department of Labor’s new proposed regulation intended to somehow reduce class action litigation and increase participants’ exposure to
It’s déjà vu all over again, as the famous quote goes.
The great thing about being a lawyer long enough is that eventually, everything that is old becomes new again. Early in my career, I was coverage counsel for an
I am going with a special edition of the Five Favorites post this week, solely covering five stories about the Department of Labor’s new proposed regulation addressing the issue of adding alternative assets, such as private equity and crypto, to
