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Employer Impact Guide to the Supreme Court’s 2024-2025 Term: 12 Cases That Reshaped Your Workplace, Industry, or Litigation...

Fisher Phillips on 8/29/2025

As the Supreme Court prepares for its next term to begin October 6, let’s look back on all the SCOTUS cases from the past year that impacted your workplace, industry, and litigation exposure. Here’s a quick guide to 12 times...more

What Employers Should Know About Tobacco Surcharge Litigation

UB Greensfelder LLP on 11/22/2024

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

Managing State Law Risks of Employer-Sponsored Abortion-Related Travel Benefits Post-Dobbs

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 8/9/2022

In previous posts (available here and here) we reported on some of the legal consequences from Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on employer-sponsored group health plan coverage of abortion-related travel benefits....more

Abortion as an Employee Health Benefit – How to Protect against Potential Liability Post-Dobbs

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog on 8/1/2022

Amazon. Bank of America. Citigroup. Dick’s Sporting Goods. JP Morgan. Kroger. Meta. Microsoft. Procter & Gamble. Target. Walt Disney Company. These are just a few of what is a growing list of companies that have offered to...more

Post-Dobbs Landscape for Employers

Mintz on 7/27/2022

Whether driven by political ideology, workforce demands, or other considerations, many employers will want to offer support in light of the Dobbs decision, and many employees may also wish to engage with their employers or...more

Reviewing Employer Health Plan Coverages in the Post-Roe Era

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Employment Law... on 7/26/2022

With the United States Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, employers should review their employee benefit plans and assess their options and obligations in offering group health plan...more

Employer Provided Travel Benefits in Response to Dobbs and State Prohibitions on Abortion

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 7/22/2022

The implications of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional right to abortion have had sweeping implications that affect...more

Key Considerations When Offering Abortion Coverage Under a Group Health Plan

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/20/2022

Not surprisingly, leading up to and in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, our employee benefits team has been spending a lot of time helping our clients wade through...more

Impact of Dobbs on Employee Benefits

Poyner Spruill LLP on 7/14/2022

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and held that the U.S. Constitution does not include a right to abortion. In doing so,...more

Employee Benefit Plan Considerations Post-Roe

Amundsen Davis LLC on 7/8/2022

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last month to overturn Roe v. Wade presents new challenges for employee benefit plans. By overturning the case establishing a constitutional right to abortion, the Court's decision in Dobbs...more

Compliance Alert: Supreme Court Turns Abortion Regulation To The States, Considerations for Group Health Plans and Employers

Woodruff Sawyer on 7/7/2022

On June 24, 2022, the United Stated Supreme Court (“the Court”), released its much anticipated decision in Dobbs, State Health officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, et...more

Compliance FAQs in a Post-Roe (Dobbs) Landscape

Woodruff Sawyer on 7/6/2022

Since the Supreme Court’s ruling that abortions are not a constitutional right, Woodruff Sawyer has been receiving questions about how this affects benefits compliance. Some states have enacted anti-abortion laws, which will...more

The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling Creates a Variety of Significant Legal Issues

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/5/2022

The Supreme Court of the United States held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overruling long-standing precedent in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood...more

The Demise of Roe v. Wade – An Analysis of the Critical Group Health Plan Issues for Employers

Clark Hill PLC on 7/5/2022

The essential holding of the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is that a woman’s ability to obtain an abortion in the United States is now to be determined entirely under...more

After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Impact on Employee Benefits

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 7/1/2022

Employers and other group health plan sponsors are left with much to consider following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overruled the Supreme Court’s prior landmark...more

Post-Dobbs: FAQs for Employers and Other Benefit Plan Sponsors

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 7/1/2022

Can group health plans continue to provide coverage for abortion-related expenses? In short, yes. Dobbs does not prohibit group health plans from covering abortion-related expenses. Instead, Dobbs eliminates federal...more

What Employers Need To Know in a Post-Roe World

Burr & Forman on 6/30/2022

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that protected a woman’s right to have an abortion. In Dobbs, the Supreme Court...more

Overturning of Roe v. Wade creates challenging legal issues for self-funded health plan sponsors

McAfee & Taft on 6/30/2022

On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey. In doing so, the Court held...more

Employment Implications Arising from Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/30/2022

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on June 24, 2022, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and holding that there is no right to abortion in the U.S....more

Employer-Paid Travel Assistance for Interstate Abortion Access

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 6/30/2022

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade in its consequential decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. With federal protection for abortion now dissolved, many employers are...more

Group Health Plans and Abortion: Implications of Supreme Court Decision

Baker Donelson on 6/29/2022

In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, employers are questioning what impact, if any, this decision will have on their group health plans. In the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court...more

Potential Impact of Dobbs on Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/29/2022

On Friday, June 24, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and held that the United States Constitution does not protect a woman’s right to terminate her...more

Group Health Plans in the Crossfire: Facilitating Reproductive Choice in the Wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 6/27/2022

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The decision explicitly reverses Roe v. Wade, thereby radically altering the legal and political...more

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health: Implications for Employers and Employer Plan Sponsors

Morgan Lewis on 6/27/2022

The US Supreme Court released its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on June 24. The decision overturns prior Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which held that the US Constitution...more

Medical Travel Reimbursement Benefits Under the Supreme Court’s New Dobbs Decision

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/24/2022

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392. The Dobbs decision expressly overrules the two key precedents that...more

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