"As reflected in the January 2026 poster, recent amendments brought forth by Assembly Bill 2499 (2024) and Assembly Bill 406 (2025), expanded the list of situations for which employers must allow paid sick leave ... These uses extend beyond traditional illness-related leave and may require employers to rethink how sick leave requests are evaluated and documented. The updated poster clearly communicates these additional permissive uses of paid sick leave to employees."  MORE >>

"Even where a condition lacks definitive objective diagnostic testing, plan administrators may reasonably require objective evidence of functional impairment ... and may discount post-elimination functional capacity evaluations if they are not tied to contemporaneous medical findings. The case also highlights the continued importance of plan language defining 'regular occupation' as work performed in the national economy, which can foreclose arguments based on the claimant's real-world job demands or composite occupation theories." [Hans v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am., No. 25-3595 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 15, 2026)]  MORE >>

"Despite higher overall treatment costs, diabetes and weight loss patients on second-generation GLP-1 medications experience meaningfully slower medical cost growth compared to matched non-users -- though maximizing this benefit hinges heavily on therapy adherence ... Diabetes patients using GLP-1s demonstrated a six percentage point improvement in medical cost growth relative to non-users over 12 to 30 months, while weight loss users showed three percentage point improvements over an 12 to 18-month window.... [U]sers maintaining at least 80% adherence to therapy nearly doubled these gains."  MORE >>

"Expenses per adjusted inpatient day include expenses incurred for both inpatient and outpatient care; inpatient days are adjusted higher to reflect an estimate of the volume of outpatient services.... [T]hese figures are only an estimate of expenses incurred by the hospital to provide a day of inpatient care and are not a substitute for either actual charges or reimbursement for care provided."  MORE >>

"[These numbers] relate to compensation from work: paycheck withholding, the potential need for estimated taxes, and your retirement savings. [1] The Social Security wage base ... [2] Your income-tax bracket and withholding ... [3] Your contribution limit for qualified retirement plans ... While not all employees have them, health savings accounts (HSAs) are also getting an increase in their pre-tax contribution limits for 2026 in response to inflation."  MORE >>