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OAK BROOK, IL – A federal court has ordered a company that administered a multiple employer welfare arrangement and one of its owners to pay at least $1.3 million to restore losses to more than 700 employer health plans after the U.S. Department of Labor found the company violated federal employee benefits law. On April 28, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, entered a consent order and judgment resolving a complaint filed by the department in May 2024. The complaint alleged Apex Management Group I Inc. and one of its owners, Jeffrey Bemoras, operated a multiple employer welfare