Posts from June 2015.
Jamie Scott
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that states must permit and recognize same-sex marriages, employers that have previously provided for domestic partner benefits may want to address whether those benefits should be continued. Factors to be considered include:
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Employers that have in the past only provided same-sex ...
Lyndsey R. Barnett
It isn’t that often that the U.S. Supreme Court hears benefit issues and even more rare to have two highly-anticipated opinions impacting benefit plans be released in the same week. On June 26th, just one day after the Supreme Court upheld the ACA subsidies, the Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional ...
It isn’t that often that the U.S. Supreme Court hears benefit issues and even more rare to have two highly-anticipated opinions impacting benefit plans be released in the same week. On June 26th, just one day after the Supreme Court upheld the ACA subsidies, the Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional ...
Last time, the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the argument that the penalty for violating the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act was permissible within Congress’s power to tax, even though it certainly hadn’t been represented as such when its supporters were pitching the ACA to the public. Now, instead of ...
Lyndsey R. Barnett
I LOVE Uber! I think it is the best thing since the creation of the dishwasher (because really isn’t the dishwasher better than sliced bread?). So when I saw this article in Forbes this week, it immediately made my stomach drop.
In most cases, Uber is considerably cheaper than taking a taxi. I was in LA last week and my taxi from ...
I LOVE Uber! I think it is the best thing since the creation of the dishwasher (because really isn’t the dishwasher better than sliced bread?). So when I saw this article in Forbes this week, it immediately made my stomach drop.
In most cases, Uber is considerably cheaper than taking a taxi. I was in LA last week and my taxi from ...
Chris Allesee
A week ago, the DOL, HHS, and IRS issued final regulations regarding the summary of benefits and coverage (“SBC”) a group health plan must provide to participants and beneficiaries describing the benefit options they are eligible to receive. There were few changes from the proposed regulations we previously wrote about ...
A week ago, the DOL, HHS, and IRS issued final regulations regarding the summary of benefits and coverage (“SBC”) a group health plan must provide to participants and beneficiaries describing the benefit options they are eligible to receive. There were few changes from the proposed regulations we previously wrote about ...
Chris Allesee
If you sponsor a self-insured group health plan, make sure you’ve set your calendar alerts for the annual PCORI fee (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute fee) for the 2014 plan year. The fee and the related IRS Form 720 are due no later than July 31st.
If your plan year ended on or before September 30, 2014, the fee is $2.00 ...
If you sponsor a self-insured group health plan, make sure you’ve set your calendar alerts for the annual PCORI fee (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute fee) for the 2014 plan year. The fee and the related IRS Form 720 are due no later than July 31st.
If your plan year ended on or before September 30, 2014, the fee is $2.00 ...