Amy Gordon

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Susan Nash |Amy Gordon |Joanna Kerpen |Erin Weber

1. The Departments Pause Enforcement of 2024 FinalMental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)Regulations. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, Department of Labor, andDepartment of Health and Human Services (the Departments) have announced that they will not enforce theSeptember 9, 2024 final MHPAEA regulations (the "2024 FinalRule"), which expanded nonquantitative treatment limitation(NQTL) comparative analyses requirements under MHPAEA.

1 month ago | mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Susan Nash |Grant E. Shillington |Kristine Lofquist

The IRS recently released Revenue Procedure 2025-19 with the 2026inflation-adjusted amounts for health savings accounts (HSAs),high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), and excepted-benefit healthreimbursement arrangements (HRAs).

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Joseph Adams |Amy Gordon |Anne Becker |Grant E. Shillington

Lawsuits targeting retirement plans for allegedly payingexcessive fees to service providers, including recordkeepers, showno signs of slowing down. As we previously posted, some courts required plaintiffsasserting prohibited transaction claims in such cases to make someinitial detailed allegations that the arrangement at issue betweenthe plan and the service provider was improper because it wasunnecessary or involved unreasonable compensation.

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Amy Gordon |Anne Becker |Justin A. Linder |Grant E. Shillington

2024 was another high-volume year for pension risk transfer(PRT) transactions. But as defined benefit pension plans havecontinued to shift pension risk to annuity providers, planparticipants have been filing lawsuits claiming the PRTs are riskyand/or the fiduciaries choosing the annuity provider have breachedtheir fiduciary duty. A number of these lawsuits involved PRTtransactions to Athene Annuity and Life Co. (Athene), which is aprivate equity backed insurance company.

2 months ago | matadornetwork.com | Amy Gordon

New York Epic Stays by Amy Gordon Apr 7, 2025 The Hamptons are known for sprawling mega-mansions and A-list celebrity sightings, but the beachside enclave on the east end of Long Island, New York, is also home to a pair of sister resorts that create space for a different kind of vacationer: families. The Pridwin Hotel and Cottages on Shelter Island and Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor (both Cape Resorts properties) blend legacy and approachability, with a range of accommodation types, kid-centric...