Topic: Employee Retirement Income Security Act
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The Daily Reckoning The financial industry's growth is stunting everything else
The financial industry was 2.5 percent of the economy when World War II ended. Now, it is 8.5 percent. How did it get so big, and what are the costs?
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Opinion: A day of reckoning for public pensions: The bills are due, the coffers are empty
Public pensions are driving state and local governments into debt at an unsustainable rate. America must face this fiscal time bomb or these dream benefits will become a nightmare.
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Opinion: Single-payer health care: dead in Washington, but alive in the states
Insurance companies may be winning the fight in Washington, but California and Vermont are on the cusp of comprehensive reform.
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Court clarifies standards for denial of disability benefits
In a ruling Thursday, it guides federal judges to weigh conflicts of interest by insurance companies.
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High court: Do health insurance plans have conflict of interest?
MetLife withdrew the long-term disability benefits of an Ohio woman after she got better.
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High court: Do health insurance plans have conflict of interest?
MetLife withdrew the long-term disability benefits of an Ohio woman after she got better.
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Supreme Court rules that employees can sue 401(k) managers
The 7-to-2 decision gives workers and retirees recourse for the mishandling of individual retirement accounts.
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