It appears that the winter holidays are truly over now, as the pace has picked up and the federal courts have issued more ERISA-related decisions. No one case in particular stood out this week, but there were plenty of entertaining facts and issues. Read on to learn about (a) potential transgender discrimination in medical benefits

Happy New Year to all our readers. Your ERISA Watch will be a little different for the next few months because our staff writer, Emily Payson, is on maternity leave with her first child (and the first grandchild for Your ERISA Watch co-editor Elizabeth Hopkins). We will continue to have a case of the week