Benefits Manager

Players who appeared for the major leagues for less than four years from 1947-79 will receive payments of up to $10,000 in each of the next two years under an agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' association.

A federal agency claims in a lawsuit filed this week that hundreds of people recruited in India to work for an oil rig construction company in Mississippi and Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were forced into oppressive living arrangements and subjected to harsh language and discriminatory working conditions.

Roughly 500 jobs will be lost when the Fort Knox human resources department is scaled back to save costs. .

Two Detroit pension boards have filed a federal lawsuit over Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s new law that gives emergency managers control over employee pensions.

For the second time this year, Blue Shield of California is facing scrutiny from a state regulator on double-digit rate hikes for individual health insurance policyholders.

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered state agencies to recover millions of dollars in salary and travel advances that were given to state workers but never repaid.

Kansas legislators are beginning work next week on the final version of a bill dealing the long-term funding problems of the pension system for teachers and government workers.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company released Wednesday its new Group Medical Bridge 1.0 product, a group hospital confinement indemnity plan that pays benefits to help cover the out-of-pocket medical and non-medical expenses associated with a covered hospital stay.