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The BenefitsLink Newsletter This issue sponsored by Jones International University Would your company like to sponsor an issue? March 3 through 6, 2000 Top Stories - Retirement Plans ASA Government Affairs Reports on the Washington Benefits Scene ASA Benefits [More like this] From the CBPP: How the 'Cross-Testing' Pension Loophole Harms Low- and Moderate-Income Workers Center on Budget and Policy Priorities [More like this] Make Your Own Mutual Fund The Standard [More like this] Japan Set to Adopt Portable Pensions in 2001 news.excite.com [More like this] CalPERS Issues Corporate Governance Focus List for 2000 Proxy Season California Public Employees Retirement System [More like this] Correcting Plan Failures Under Walk-in CAP Professional Practice Insurance Brokers, Inc. [More like this] California Department of Corporations Takes Over Los Angeles County Investment Adviser Business Wire [More like this] Labor Dept. Seeks Law To Shield Stock Options Washington Post [More like this] Freelancers Should Be Virtually Skeptical, by Jane Bryant Quinn Washington Post [More like this] Labor Department Supports Amending FLSA to Protect Stock Programs for Hourly Workers in House Hearing LPA [More like this] March 2, 2000 issue of Pension & Benefits Update Tax Analysts Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector National Bureau of Economic Research [More like this] Updated Comparison of Revenue Provisions In H.R. 2990 As Passed By the House and the Senate (PDF) Joint Committee on Taxation [More like this] Top Stories - Health and Welfare Plans Georgia Slaps Principal Health Care with Largest HMO Fine in State's History insure.com [More like this] InterStudy HMO Forecasting Report (Executive Summary) (PDF) MCO Executives Online [More like this] Managed Health Care Reform Reaches Critical Stage Los Angeles Times [More like this] Retiring Coke Executive's Package Worth at Least $30 Million news.excite.com [More like this] Easy Passage Expected for Two Washington State Health Care Reform Plans Seattle Post-Intelligencer [More like this] Consumer Groups Fear Merger of Aetna and WellPoint Could Bode Ill for Patients insure.com [More like this] HMO Losses Will Hit Colorado Employers Hard Health Care Journal [More like this] Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact (PDF) Report of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force to the President [More like this] Employers Reach Out To Gays Arizona Republic [More like this] Associated Industries of Florida Proposes HMO Patient Protection Act of 2000 PRNewswire [More like this] House and Senate Negotiators Allow Pediatricians to Serve as Primary Care Doctors for Kids Associated Press [More like this] House-Senate Conference Committee on HMO Reform Tilted Against Patient Rights Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights [More like this] Clinton Threatens Veto If HMO Protection Bill Omits Right to Sue Associated Press [More like this] Clinton Urges Congressional Conferees to Act in a Bipartisan Fashion White House [More like this] Not All Disability Benefits Must Be Equal, Court Says Elarbee, Thompson & Trapnell, LLP [More like this] New Recommended Links About Employee Benefits Standards for Privacy and Individually Identifiable Health Information Groom Law Group [More like this] The Age of Absence: Reviewing Absenteeism Management Programs Benefits Canada [More like this] How to Buy A Long-Term Care Insurance Policy Scripps Howard News Service [More like this] HMO Liability from a Plaintiffs' Attorney's Perspective Law Offices of David L. Trueman [More like this] Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment National Bureau of Economic Research [More like this] North Carolina Consumer's Guide to Health Plan Selection North Carolina Institute of Medicine [More like this] Daily Momentum and Contrarian Behavior of Index Fund Investors National Bureau of Economic Research [More like this] New Speakers in Our Employee Benefits Speakers Database Bailey, Andrea View bio Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP GA Clay, Michael View bio Benefit Recovery Service, L.L.C. OK Heckert, Brian View bio Self/ Financial Security Corporation IL Lackey, Michael View bio DeFrain Mayer MO Lund, Thomas View bio Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP MN Manin, Mark View bio LaRhette Manin Benefits Service Group MA Mosiman, Gary View bio Defined Contribution Advisors, Inc. MN Opinante, Daniel View bio National Medical Health Card System, Inc NY Reys, Doug View bio M&A HR Issues Specialist OH Rugh, Thomas View bio Zions Bancorporation UT Ryan, Heidi View bio HealthCare Actuaries.com LLC WA Shumosic, CFP, Thom View bio Rockwood Financial Group DE Smentek, Ronald View bio MEDEVAL CORPORATION IN VanLeeuwen, MBA, David View bio Health Plan Strategies, Inc. PA Weisz, Allen View bio Defined Contribution Advisors, Inc. MN Wilson, Larry View bio Texas A&M University TX Add Yourself as a Speaker - No Charge! Copyright 2000 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. Feel free to forward this email to friends, colleagues or clients, if no fee is paid to you and the email is forwarded in its entirety. Thanks! BenefitsLink is a trademark of BenefitsLink.com, Inc., published by Dave Baker with much help from Mary Hall and lots of friends. 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