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The BenefitsLink Newsletter This issue is free, thanks to today's sponsor MedPlans2000 (Would your company like to sponsor an issue?) March 24 - 27, 2000 Top Stories - Retirement Plans IRS Clarifies Prospective Effective Date Guidelines if New Rules for New Comparability Plans Are Adopted TRI Pension Services [More like this] President of Pan Am Retiree Group Demands That PBGC Executive Director Commence Talks with Pan Am Retirees At Once Business Wire [More like this] Scudder Kemper Retirement Services Wins Two 1st Place Awards in Pensions & Investments '2000 Defined Contribution Investment Education Awards' Yahoo! News [More like this] JavaScript IRA Withdrawal Calculator is Online John P. Greaney [More like this] Liability for Breach of ERISA Fiduciary Duty Imposed on Company President is Non-dischargeable Debt in Later Personal Bankruptcy Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] Third Circuit Imposes 'Duty to Explain' on ERISA Plan Administrators Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP [More like this] ERIC Comments on Application of Plan Qualification Requirements in Connection with Mergers, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Similar Transactions, and the Multiple Use Rule (PDF) ERISA Industry Committee [More like this] Critical Date Approaching for Older Clients with IRAs and Qualified Plan Accounts RIA Federal Taxes Weekly Alert [More like this] Senate OKs End to Social Security Earnings Penalty Los Angeles Times [More like this] California Law of Substantial Compliance Applies in Determining Validity of 401(k) Plan's Beneficiary Designation Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] City of Miami Beach Not Estopped To Make Prospective Reduction In Benefits Cypen & Cypen Top Stories - Health and Welfare Plans No Excise Tax Under Code Section 4976 of Demutualization Payments Transferred to VEBA Trust Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] More Mid-year Cafeteria Plan Election Changes Permitted Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] Prescription Drugs Prescribed Prior to Six-Month Waiting Period, But Taken During the Waiting Period, Constituted 'Treatment' Under Plan's Preexisting Condition Clause Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] EEOC Information Letter Takes No Position on Whether Infertility is Protected Under the Americans with Disabilities Act Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] Two Federal Courts Permit ERISA Plan Participants and Beneficiaries to Sue Plan's Insurer Under State Law, Notwithstanding ERISA'S Exclusive Remedies Provisions Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA Health Data Confidentiality Rules QuadraMed [More like this] HMO Reforms Could Be Foiled In Regulatory Process Without An Effective HMO Czar Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights [More like this] Resolving Health Plan Disputes: The Issue and Challenges (PDF), orig. pub. April 1999 Alliance for Health Reform [More like this] American Health Lawyers Association Co-Hosts Press Briefing on Managed Care Lawsuits American Health Lawyers Association [More like this] Regions Bank Ordered to Pay Severance Benefits to Bank Executives Under 'Change of Control' Provision in Employment Contracts Knight-Ridder / Tribune Business News [More like this] Michigan HMO Doctors Vote To Unionize Associated Press [More like this] HIPAA Regulation Looms for Medical Records Nashua Telegraph [More like this] Dental Plans Unite to Take Bigger Bite of Market Health Care Journal [More like this] Insurer Cannot Deny Benefits After Guaranteeing Payment in Writing Employee Benefits Institute of America [More like this] Negligence Claim Against HMO Stands New York Law Journal [More like this] NCQA Report Card for Health Plans Too Vague to be Helpful Health Care Journal [More like this] Long-Term Disability Hits the Wall Michael Greve, FLMI, CEBS [More like this] Battle Cry for Free Health Care - Retired Veterans Push Congress to Restore 'Promised' Benefit Washington Post [More like this] New Recommended Links About Employee Benefits Reader Survey Results BenefitsLink [More like this] What Long-Term Care Insurance Is and Is Not Washington Post [More like this] Frequently Asked Questions About the Federal Minimum Wage G. Neil [More like this] DB Plans' Unexpected Resiliency Could Aid Recruiting Cypen & Cypen [More like this] Large Bank Retirement Services: A Comparative Practices Study Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Working Papers [More like this] 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. To subscribe (free): visit https://benefitslink.com/newsletter/ - or the person desiring to subscribe can send an email to listmanager@postmastergeneral.com, with this as the subject of the email: subscribe benefitslink We have an online archive of prior issues.

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