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  1. Insurer's Untimely Claim Denial Leads to Loss of Deferential Review
    From the November 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The participant in this case sued the insurer of his employer-sponsored accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) plan after it denied benefits. The participant argued that the trial court should apply the nondeferential, de novo standard of review ...
    [Rasenack v. AIG Life Ins. Co., 2009 WL 3526490 (10th Cir. 2009)]
  2. EFAST2 PIN for Form 5500 Electronic Filing Is Plan Administrator's Signature and Must Not Be Shared
    From the November 12, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    A new question has been added to the DOL’s webpage of FAQs on EFAST2, the all-electronic filing system for Form 5500 filings beginning with 2009 plan years. (For information about other topics addressed in the previous EFAST2 ...
    ["EBSA FAQs: EFAST2 All-Electronic Filing System" (Nov. 2009)]
  3. DOL Issues Additional FAQs on Schedule C for 2009 Form 5500
    From the October 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL has issued 25 additional FAQs concerning the Schedule C disclosures for 2009 and later plan years. This guidance supplements a set of 40 FAQs issued last year. (See our Checkpoint Newsstand article.) Generally, both pension plans and those ...
    [DOL Supplemental FAQs About the 2009 Schedule C]
  4. DOL Releases New FAQs on All-Electronic Form 5500 Filing Under EFAST2
    From the September 24, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL’s EFAST website now contains 45 FAQs addressing EFAST2, the all-electronic filing system for Form 5500 that is scheduled to be available beginning January 2010. As background, final DOL regulations issued in 2007 require that all ...
    [EBSA EFAST2 All-Electronic Filing System" (Sept. 2009)]
  5. OPM Proposes Long-Term Care and Leave Benefits for Domestic Partners of Federal Employees
    From the September 17, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    In June 2009, President Obama directed that benefits for federal employees be expanded to include same-sex domestic partners to the extent consistent with federal law. The federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has now issued proposed regulations that would (...
    [Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program: Eligibility Changes, 74 Fed. Reg. 46937 (Sept. 14, 2009); Absence and Leave; Sick Leave, 74 Fed. Reg. 46934 (Sept. 14, 2009)]
  6. DOL Staff Members Provide Informal Views on SPDs/SMMs and Issues Under the Davis-Bacon And Service Contract Acts
    From the September 03, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association has reported on its May 7, 2009 Q&A session with DOL staff members. Highlights include unofficial, nonbinding remarks about these welfare plan topics: (1) SPD requirements ...
    [ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, Meeting with Department of Labor Staff (May 7, 2009)]
  7. DOL Approves First Commercial Software Vendor for All-Electronic Form 5500 Filing Under EFAST2
    From the August 27, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL has begun compiling its list of companies that have developed “approved software” for use in preparing and submitting Form 5500 for the 2009 plan year under the new all-electronic EFAST2 system. As background, DOL final ...
    [EFAST Webpage: EFAST2-Approved Software (Aug. 21, 2009)]
  8. EBSA Issues Guidance on Fiduciary Duties in Response to Alleged Abuses Involving the Madoff Investment Firm
    From the February 12, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued a brief statement on the duties of employee benefit plan fiduciaries in light of alleged abuses involving Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. According to the guidance, recent events ...
    [Statement of Employee Benefits Security Administration, "Duties of Fiduciaries in Light of Recent Events Regarding Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC" (Feb. 5, 2009)]
  9. White House Asks Agencies to Delay Publication, Effective Dates of Regulations Pending Review
    From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    On Inauguration Day, President Obama’s Chief of Staff issued a memorandum to executive department agencies and heads, advising them of the President’s plan for managing the Federal regulatory process so as to give his appointees and ...
    [Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, 74 Fed. Reg. 4435 (Jan. 26, 2009)]
  10. 2008 Form M-1, Including Self-Compliance Tool, Made Available by the DOL With Few Changes From the Previous Year
    From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued the 2008 Form M-1, Report for Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) and Certain Entities Claiming Exception (ECEs). Subject to certain limited exceptions, this annual report must be filed with the ...
    [Form M-1 (2008); DOL News Release No. 08-1837-NAT (Dec. 17, 2008)]

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