Whoever said employee benefits compliance can’t be fun was pretty much exactly right ... until now. The bold and more than modestly deranged ERISA experts from Lockton Benefit Group’s Compliance Services division are throwing all caution to the wind and attempting to make plain the intricacies of employee benefits while laughing through it all. Their motto: “If after all this effort we can elicit a single laugh, the fact that we skipped lunch to record this will more or less have been worth it.” Not legal advice: Nothing in this podcast should be construed as legal advice (although it may be considered advice for better living). Lockton may not be considered your legal counsel, and communications with Lockton's Compliance Services group are not privileged under the attorney-client privilege.
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