Health Law Scan

Members of our labor and employment team recently published a LawFlash discussing the US Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) April 14 issuance of three pieces of subregulatory guidance addressing the cybersecurity practices of retirement plan sponsors, vendors, and plan participants respectively. This resource, which includes our team’s analysis and observations, may be of particular interest to employers in the healthcare sector, who are all too familiar with how important it is to keep data secure.

In recent years, reports have indicated robust enforcement activities by the US Department of Labor (DOL) against ERISA plans and service providers to those plans. These enforcement activities have an increasing focus on ERISA group health plans and their service providers, such as health insurers and administrators.

Healthcare is the largest labor market in the United States, employing over 18 million workers.