Legal and Compliance

This webinar will dive into the concept of ERISA fiduciary duty, to whom and when it applies, and how workplace wellness programs can use it as a legal tool to convince employers to offer more holistic wellness services.

This webinar will cover recent lawsuits that have been filed involving wellness programs or providers. Attendees will learn about the facts of each case and the legal arguments raised. They will leave the webinar feeling more certain about current legal risks that might arise from corporate wellness programming and what plaintiffs’ attorneys might be looking for with regard to noncompliance.

Learn how an innovative use of employee assistance programs can help counteract that bias in the form of wellness-legal partnerships. Time will be reserved for attendee questions.

In this webinar, attendees learned about state and federal laws that impact tobacco discrimination in wellness programs.

The increasing interest in addressing mental health issues in the workplace includes a rising interest in alternative therapies. One of those alternative therapies that is gaining popularity is the use of psychedelics like Ketamine to treat depression, PTSD, and other behavioral health disorders. The number of startups offering Ketamine services is growing to meet the demand. Should employers offer these treatments to employees to improve their well-being? What are the legal risks? This webinar will answer those questions as well as provide a brief background in government regulation of drugs both at the state and federal levels.

In this webinar, the speaker will discuss the importance of and difference between state and federal laws. The speaker will discuss state privacy laws, state laws involving workplace wellness program evaluation, state laws involving certification of workplace wellness programs, state screening laws as well as state licensure laws.

In this session, we will discuss whether and when workplace wellness program vendors (including broker/consultants) bear legal risk when administering corporate wellness programs, and when the employer bears that risk. We will also discuss how that risk may be allocated. Provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) will also be addressed as it pertains to workplace wellness programs.

In this webinar, we will discuss ERISA fiduciary duty and whether employers have a fiduciary duty to implement wellness programs that could potentially save the group health plan money. The session will cover basic legal principles involving ERISA law and then apply those concepts to workplace wellness to determine if wellness program stakeholders can advocate for employer investment in workplace wellness as a legal duty of the employer.

Two recent lawsuits, one brought by the AARP (again) and one against the City of Chicago’s wellness program, involve HRAs and biometric screens. After discussing these cases and the implications for workplace wellness programs, we will discuss other legal issues that HRAs and biometric screens present.

In this webinar, Barbara will discuss the laws that use the word voluntary, legal cases in which the word “voluntary” was at issue, and how workplace wellness program designers should really be thinking about that word to avoid violating workplace wellness program laws.