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he New TPA ERISA Appeals Department Training Program Announced for Self-Insured Health Plan's
The New TPA ERISA Appeals Department Training Program Announced for Self-Insured Health Plan's Denial and Appeal Management To Compliantly Contain Administrative Costs For The First Time In U.S. Health Care History, ERISAclaim.com Announced The Nation's First TPA ERISA Appeal Management Department Program To Provide TPA's and Self-Insured Health Plans With A Turn-Key Set-Up Training For The In-House ERISA Appeals Management Department To Process ERISA Appeals Compliantly to Contain Administrative Costs and Avoid Unnecessary Litigations, In Wake Of The New Pending Obama Health Reform Laws Mandating ERISA Compliance for All Group Health Plans Within Six Months of The Enactment

The New 2010 Obama Healthcare Reimbursement Law Webinars Announced As ERISA Appeals Procedures
The Final Health Bill Passed In Senate On Christmas Eve Is Completely Consistent With House Health Bill By Incorporating ERISA Claim Regulation In Its Entirety For All Group Health Plans Into Obama Health Reform, For 200 Million Americans Under New Obama Universal Healthcare Laws. ERISA Appeal Process Is Now Mandatory For All Group Health Plans And Healthcare Providers As Well As Consumers. First Free Monthly ERISA Webinar starts on 01/18/2010, and First Advanced ERISA Claim Specialist Certification Program Starts in Feb. 2010.

ERISA Pros to Offer Seminar Series on ERISA for Group Insurance Brokers
ERISA Pros has announced it will offer a new series of exclusive lunch & learn round table seminars for employee benefit consultants and insurance brokers who sell group insurance. The first seminar is titled, "How ERISA Will Affect Your Group Insurance Clients in 2010," will be held on December 3, 2009.

ERISAclaim.com Announced The Nation's First Embezzlement Recovery Services
ERISAclaim.com Announced The Nation's First Embezzlement Recovery Services for Large ERISA Health Plans from the $6 Trillion Healthcare Denial Management Market 10-23-2009, Hanover Park, IL "ERISAclaim.com is offering a unique ERISA recovery service for midsized and large sized employer-sponsored ERISA health plans from potential or probable embezzlement, kickback, concealment and negligence as well as mismanagement from TPAs and ASOs to recoup potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from current healthcare industry overpayment practice and mismanagement. ERISAclaim.com has gained its unique industry in-depth knowledge and expertise from working with every segment of health care industry in more than 10 years. With unique knowledge of the industry known facts, ERISAclaim.com is dedicated to helping large ERISA plans to recover millions of dollars on a complete contingency basis."

Buyers Study 2008: The Trends Employers Are Facing and the Plans They're Buying
What are the trends employers are facing when it comes to benefits? Unum shares its study.

Supreme Court Upholds the Primacy of ERISA Plan Documents over Divorcee’s Waiver of Pension Benefits
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that under ERISA, plan administrators must distribute plan assets in accordance with the terms of lawful plan documents without regard to a waiver of benefits contained in a divorce decree. In Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan, the plan administrator distributed the proceeds from a savings plan to a deceased employees ex-wife who was listed as the beneficiary on the plan documents despite the fact that she had earlier waived all rights to the benefits in a divorce decree. Littler Mendelson shares more.

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Interference With Health Benefits
Termination to prevent an employee from receiving health benefits? Hanft Law explains more.

Most U.S. Companies Risk Fiduciary Liability With Retirement Plans
Fiduciary Liability is an unnecessary risk that plagues Fortune 1000 businesses leaving employees short of retirement goals. Fiduciary Risk Management, LLC, explains.

ERISA Section 404(c) Compliance
As one could assume, most plans will adhere to the requirements in ERISA Section 404(c), if an employer or plan fiduciary pays heed to all that´s involved. All the same, it is wise to be proactive in avoiding the need to rely on ERISA Section 404(c) as a defense in the first place, advises Ray Andree.

ERISA Standard of Review
The Minnesota Federal District Court has recently confirmed the standard of review that will be applied to the decisions made by a plan administrator; from Kathleen Bray.

Fiduciary Responsibilities Under ERISA
Jeff Chad, HR.com´s Benefits analyst leads the following overview and simplified explanation of the laws and the regulations as it pertains to fiduciaries.