Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action lawsuits filed earlier this year against the group health plans of two large US employers underscore the importance of implementing formal welfare benefit plan governance structures that include fiduciary committees comparable to the governance structures employer sponsors of retirement plans routinely adopt.

This recent article, published by the Society for Human Resource Management, offers plan sponsors a list of practical action items to consider to help protect themselves from risks related to the fiduciary governance of their health and welfare plans.

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