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Husch Blackwell LLP

Employers Continue to Face ERISA Tobacco Surcharge Lawsuits, With Mixed Results

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Recently, companies have seen a spate of class action lawsuits challenging the legality of tobacco cessation wellness programs and related tobacco surcharges imposed by their employer-sponsored health benefit plans....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Time to Revisit Your HIPAA Documents After Reproductive Health Privacy Rule Vacated

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In the wake of a recent federal District Court decision, the reproductive health care HIPAA Privacy rules finalized during the Biden Administration have been vacated and plan sponsors should re-evaluate the language included...more

Goldberg Segalla

The New York Health Information Privacy Act and Its Impact on Workers’ Compensation

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The New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), passed by the New York State Legislature on January 22 as Senate Bill S929, is a comprehensive health data privacy law awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature....more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

DOL & Treasury Extend Certain ERISA-Related Deadlines for Helene and Milton Impacted Areas

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On November 8, the Departments of Labor and Treasury (the “Departments”) issued guidance extending certain deadlines related to retirement, health, and welfare plans in response to Hurricane Helene, Tropical Storm Helene, and...more

Fisher Phillips

Rising ERISA Class-Action Lawsuits Over Tobacco Surcharges in Health Plans: What Employers Need to Know + 6 Steps to Stay...

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A wave of ERISA class-action lawsuits is challenging tobacco surcharge programs in employer-sponsored health plans across the U.S. These cases center on potential fiduciary breaches, with plaintiffs arguing that surcharges...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

What Employers Should Know About Tobacco Surcharge Litigation

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Tobacco surcharges have become the focus of class action litigation in recent months. Although corporate wellness programs are commonplace, employers that impose a tobacco surcharge (or other premium discount) in connection...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Landmark Mental Health Parity Final Rule: What Plan Sponsors and Insurers Need to Know

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The US Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) recently issued much-anticipated final regulations under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). The newly issued...more

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Reminder: July 31 Is the PCORI Fee Remittance Deadline for Self-Insured Health Plans

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Employers that sponsor a self-insured health plans must submit their Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fees to the Internal Revenue Service by July 31, 2024. Plan sponsors need to calculate their PCORI fee...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Employers Must Keep Reproductive Health Information About Their Plan Participants Private Under New HIPAA Privacy Rule

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Imagine you are a corporate Human Resources/Total Rewards leader who receives a request from a state’s law enforcement agency for health plan records about a plan participant’s abortions or other reproductive health care. How...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Attention, Group Health Plans: New HIPAA Privacy Rule Governing Reproductive Health Care Information Imposes Obligations,...

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It is critical for employers and plan fiduciaries/administrators to stay informed of HIPAA privacy and security-related legal developments because most employer sponsored group health plans — regardless of the employer’s...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Navigating Mid-Year Benefit Election Changes

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One of the most common questions that we receive is whether an employee can change their benefits elections after the plan year has already started (also referred to as a mid-year change).  The answer is very fact-specific...more

Law Matters

Two Months Post-'Dobbs' What Healthcare Providers Need to Know — Q&A with Joan W. Feldman

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Two months post-Dobbs, Shipman & Goodwin's Joan W. Feldman shares her insights and her predictions for the future of reproductive health law issues....more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

The Demise of Roe v. Wade: Employment and Benefits Considerations

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On June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., 2022 WL 2276808 (June 24, 2022), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey 505...more

Butler Snow LLP

American Rescue Plan Act Provides COBRA Subsidies

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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) includes a valuable benefit for an employee who has lost (or loses) healthcare coverage due to an involuntary termination or reduction in hours — up to 6 months of free COBRA...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fully Subsidized COBRA Under the American Rescue Plan Act

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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) requires fully subsidized COBRA premium payments for assistance eligible individuals beginning as early as April 1, 2021, and ending as late as September 30, 2021 (the Subsidy...more

Littler

The American Rescue Plan Act Includes Required COBRA Subsidy

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On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The law contains various provisions that impact employers, including a new COBRA subsidy....more

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New COVID-19 Relief Law Includes Full COBRA Premium Subsidy

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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which became law on March 11, 2021, provides a 100 percent subsidy of premiums under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) beginning on April 1, 2021, through...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

New COBRA Obligations for Employers Included in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus

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For employers with group health plans, COBRA obligations under President Biden’s premiere $1.9 trillion stimulus legislation, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Rescue Plan”) are an early priority. ...more

Baker Donelson

Six Months of Paid COBRA Premiums for "Assistance Eligible Individuals"

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On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) into law. Included among the many pandemic relief provisions in ARPA is a COBRA subsidy structure that is now designed to fully subsidize...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

2021 Employee Benefit Plan Limits Announced by IRS

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The IRS has released the 2021 cost-of-living adjustments for limits on employee benefits with some adjustments to the 2021 rates including minor increases to the maximum contributions allowed under Code Section 415 for...more

McAfee & Taft

IRS announces relief for certain Form 1094/1095 reporting requirements

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In a similar move as in previous years, the IRS has issued relief from certain Form 1094-C and 1095-C reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act relating to employee health plans, as well as relief from certain...more

Kilpatrick

IRS Extends Transitional Relief for 2020 ACA Reporting

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2020-76 on October 2, 2020, announcing a delay in the deadline for distribution of Forms 1095-B and Forms 1095-C to participants by employers, health insurers and other...more

Snell & Wilmer

Finally, Some Good News: IRS Extends Certain ACA Reporting Deadlines and Transition Relief

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As in prior years, the IRS has provided relief for employers preparing to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s (“ACA”) information reporting requirements in early 2021 for the 2020 calendar year. In particular, Notice...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

IRS Allows Remote Notarization of Participant Elections for 2020

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On June 3, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued Notice 2020-42 to provide temporary relief for certain participant elections required to be witnessed in the “physical presence” of a plan representative or notary...more

Littler

Reopening Health Plan Elections Mid-Year? IRS Leaves it up to Employers

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On May 12, 2020, the IRS issued guidance temporarily suspending long-standing federal regulations that limit when an employee can make mid-year changes to employer-sponsored health coverage....more

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