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So we're in the watershed (12-month) year of ERISA's 50th Anniversary and what do we get? A watershed moment for Nikki Glaser. (Mayb...

As we barrel towards a new administration in a post- Chevron  reality (quite the one-two punch there, if you're interested in the fate o...

A shout-out needs to go to Crain's Pensions & Investments, whose Top 10 (or, as we shall see, 11) somewhat ERISA-centric wrap-up sto...

So I'm watching the wonderful "Your Friend, Nate Bargatze" on Netflix and I get a shout-out to none other than . . . actuaries...

Wordy Gurdy (not to be confused (or maybe indeed to be confused) with the similar sounding Donovan song ) is a newspaper game that presents ...

OK, so I admit it. I'm a Columbophile. At its best, this gem of a show is absolutely unsurpassed.  I've recently come across two won...

So, late to the party, I've been watching Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. Generally disappointing, so I didn't miss...

I'm always looking for ways in which welfare plans and 401(k) plans are, well, sexy. (Sad, no?) So I'm sitting in "Arora",...

One of the things that can be hard to convey is the power of the time value of money (TVM) and its role in the World of ERISA. A partner of ...

It's not every day that there's a real case involving <shudder> plan assets in the courts.  But the Powell v. Ocwen case, now...

As  one of my very early posts allowed me to express my awe and admiration for Heath Ledger's Dark Knight performance, I was interested...

SPOILER ALERT - this post will give away key information about Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F Back in '84, Beverly Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy...

A prior post chronicled the DOL's successful pursuit of ERISA plan-assets claims against the one-time dog-focused Michael Vick (who got...

So there's a guy, Gary Cooper, who was one day away from qualifying for his MLB pension back in the 70s when his next game was rained ou...

The question of whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor has been around for many years.  The question has numerous cons...

While minding my own business, I was treated to a clip pushed out to me by Google that really resonated with me - Alice Cooper on Johnny Car...

So I've come across three ERISA-flavored references in various media over the last several weeks, as follows; - First, we have what to o...

ERISA covers certain death benefits.  Slasher films and zombie movies involve death (and undeath, if you will).  There, connection made.  (T...

The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon trope has become so omnipresent that I guess it should not be surprising that a connection between ERISA and ...

Merry Christmas!  In the past, I've done some ERISA and non-ERISA posts with some Holiday music and other Holiday-themed nuggets.  Somet...

As noted previously , IRAs have made their way onto Jeopardy.  Now, while IRAs got their own column all to themselves, 401(k)s apparently (w...

So I was trolling the internet and I came upon Tim Conway as the 35 year-old orphan .  I think in the annals of television Tim C...

There's a disturbing aspect of Shark Tank, which is generally a great show (but may have Jumped the . . . ahem . . . Shark* when it did ...

With increasing frequency, 401(k) plans get prominently mentioned in pop culture.  And I've noticed that in the mainstream press economi...

So a central part of my life over more than a decade is about to end.  On Monday, we get the last episode of Better Call Saul.  The Breaking...

Sometimes, ya gotta listen really carefully to find ERISA references in unexpected places.  In the once-promising Search Party, on HBO Max b...

I happened to find my way to an old Saturday Night Live bit, and was surprised to see my practice area find a way to wheedle its way in.  Le...

Well, THIS didn't go well, did it?  Another high-profile for-cause termination now hits the world of sports and entertainment.   Not sur...

So "Cruella" with Emma Stone is certainly an unexpected joy.* To those who say it's the distaff counterpart to "Joker...

Well, here we go again for a Holiday note with <shudder> no ERISA component. For prior non-ERISA entries during the Holiday Se...

As we head into the Ghislaine Maxwell trial (it certainly has been quite the trials arc we're in), let us not forget the connection (in ...

OK, I admit it.  I like Britney Spears.  I like her music, and she seems (or at least at one time seemed) very nice.  I thought South Park n...

So we just saw Gary Gulman earlier tonight.  We've been fans of his for what seems like centuries, ever since his initial appearances on...

ERISA practitioners have long known that pension money is a (if not the) main source of investment in the global capital markets. ERISA mo...

During  the November 4, 2021 installment of ESPN's Keyshawn, JWill and Max , we get a well-placed HIPAA reference from Max Kellerman reg...

Previously, I've pointed out movies that are ERISA-centric, with my favorite example being Wall Street (a pension-overfunding movie*). ...

During the November 6, 2021 episode of Saturday Night Live, we are treated (if that's the right word) to a bunch of guys, and their inne...

Some things confuse me.  Like how I and the rest of the world (the DOL excluded) could've missed CIGNA v. Amara's eventual surcharge...

[originally posted 4/15/21 - typographical error later corrected] OK, so I go to “Nobody” (that’s right: f COVID, now that I'm double-va...

Well, the flavor du jour is clearly special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs").  It's becoming pretty apparent they they ...

I had to laugh while reading the yahoo!sports commentary  on the wins by the Bucs and Packers that have set up a truly epic Conference Champ...

One of the main ERISA plans for our friends in Hollywood is allegedly at the center of a new cyber breach.  The complaint in Gilbert v. AFTR...

Holiday time has returned, and I want again to do a post devoid of an ERISAn theme.  In the past I've focused on my own favorite Xmas so...

So what is it with Bruce Willis, maybe my all-time fave? In Live Free or Die Hard, he battles Timothy Olyphant's* Thomas Gabriel in ord...

  I will choose to remember an otherwise horrific 2020 as the AC/DC in Employment Act ("A/D-EA").  I've been listening to AC/D...

Sometimes the dissolution of the marriage between an employer and a multiemployer plan can end in a messy divorce .   In American Federation...

  [originally posted in 2011; see note at end below]   DIVIDEND EQUIVALENT RIGHTS - THE 409A SEQUEL   General Background   Dividend equi...