Winter/Spring Compliance Consulting
CLASS Webcasts
As a client or other friend of Lockton, you're invited to attend the upcoming 2024 Client Advisory Seminar Series (CLASS) presented by Lockton's Compliance Consulting team. This series of complimentary webcasts provides practical advice on compliance issues affecting your benefits plans.
Cafeteria plans: A menu of qualifying election change events, basic rules and more
Feb. 22, 2024 | 2-3 p.m. CT
Speakers: Laura Bibb, J.D. and Ruhe Wadud, J.D.
Employers often face challenges from cafeteria plan participants who want to change their benefit elections mid-year. That’s when employers must review their menu of qualifying election change events to determine if an election change may be made. In this webcast, we’ll graze a buffet of topics related to cafeteria plans, including:
 
  • Which employers can sponsor a cafeteria plan and which employees can participate
  • What benefits may be offered under a cafeteria plan
  • When may participants change their elections
  • How to address mistaken elections
  • An overview of nondiscrimination rules 
ERISA is still our friend - 50 years later
March 19, 2024 | 2-3 p.m. CT
Speakers: , Rory Akers, J.D., Suzanne Bach, J.D., and Ethan McWilliams, MBA
In the blink of an eye, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has hit the 50-year mark, and it has been a growing and evolving half-century. Come celebrate ERISA’s birthday with us!

Join Lockton’s Compliance Consulting team as we discuss ERISA, including the following:

  • Where ERISA started and where the law is now
  • The growing focus on ERISA compliance for health and welfare plans
  • Fiduci-what? The role of the ERISA fiduciary with regard to health and welfare plans
  • The power of ERISA and preemption
April showers bring... annual HIPAA training!
April 18, 2024 | 2-3 p.m. CT
Speakers: Ruhe Wadud, J.D. and Jeff Lowry, J.D.
Join us for our annual training on HIPAA privacy and security, benefiting self-insured healthcare plan sponsors and fully insured sponsors that play an active role in handling their plans’ protected information. Our discussion will include:
 
  • An overview of HIPAA privacy and security rules, and how they apply to employer healthcare plans
  • Actions employers must take to ensure compliance
  • A look at the enforcement environment, including federal audits and penalties for noncompliance
Registration
These sessions are free! Please register by clicking the links above for each session you would like to attend.* Please register only once for each group of employees who will view and listen to the presentation through a single computer. You are welcome to register multiple groups.

Note: To receive CEUs, please log in to the presentation individually so we have a record of your attendance.
Recordings
Each session will be recorded and the replay will be sent via email to all registrants.
CEUs
We offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) for many of the webcasts presented by the experts in Lockton People Solutions. Attendees of the webcasts can obtain CEUs for Professional in Human Resources (PHR), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR) certification.
 
To receive CEUs, you will need to log in to the presentation individually so we have a record of your attendance.
If you are unable to access the registration page by clicking the links above, please contact peoplesolutionscomms@lockton.com.