New York Citys public employee pension funds are using their financial muscle to try to force the companies they invest in, including Netflix and Wellpoint, to elect independent board chairmen.

So the latest Republican effort to sabotage the next stage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is another government shutdown. Because that worked out so well for them last time.

There are specific criteria a plan must meet to retain grandfathered status. And, according to United Benefit Advisors, there are benefits to converting to a fully PPACA-complaint coverage design.

The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against San Franciscos Pacific Bank, alleging the bank, its CEO and three additional fiduciaries of its Employee Stock Ownership Plan mismanaged plan assets potentially resulting in $1.4 million in plan losses.