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Domestic Partner's Right to Continued Health Coverage Under COBRA, Cal-COBRA and Analogous State Laws
Cooley LLP [Guidance Overview] Aug. 14, 2009
Excerpt: [Recent] guidance from the San Francisco Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor (the 'DOL') indicates that an employee's domestic partner may be eligible for continued health coverage under COBRA in certain circumstances and that, as a result, the [Defense of Marriage Act] would not preclude such coverage.... [Also, t]here are continuation coverage statutes in some (but certainly not all) states that, like Cal-COBRA, consider domestic partners to be qualified beneficiaries for purposes of state-mandated continuation coverage. Accordingly, it is important to identify any applicable state statute in order to determine what right, either individually or derivatively through the former employee, an employee's domestic partner may have to continued health coverage.
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