{"id":10748,"date":"2021-08-18T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bbinsurance.com\/?post_type=insight&amp;p=10748"},"modified":"2021-08-18T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:53:21","slug":"august-coffee-compliance-podcast","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/www.bbrown.com\/us\/insight\/august-coffee-compliance-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"August Coffee &#038; Compliance Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s episodes of Coffee &amp; Compliance, our Research &amp; Compliance team discusses some of the common health and welfare benefit scams they have seen. 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