HealthCare.com, a company that provides an online market for insurance, is raising $7.5 million in funding to expand its services -- just as the governments healthcare.gov begins its second year of enrolling patients.

Knowing the DOL is going to be vigilant in these areas means that now is a good time to review benefit plan documentation and administrative practices to ensure compliance.

The settlement in a fiduciary-duty suit against MassMutual Life Insurance Co. appears to open the door to further legal action by plan sponsors in a similar arrangement with other providers.