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Barriers Remain, But Study Shows Value-Based Health Plan Design Surging Forward
"[It's hard to design] specific to your company unless you have a workaround, and the workaround is this: creating an incentive-based design outside of insurance for getting your biometric screen - at the bare minimum - and doing a health risk appraisal if it's affordable."
(Employee Benefit News; free registration required)
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Employees Challenge Wellness Program in ADA Class Action
"A federal district court in Florida must determine whether a wellness program that charges employees an additional $20 in bi-weekly health insurance premiums if they refuse to undergo biometric screenings or fill out health risk assessments is permissible under the Americans with Disabilities Act . . . ."
(Mercer LLC)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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[Guidance Overview]
A Review of Recent Developments in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
The review covers the following: liabilities to ERISA pension and welfare plans when planning and executing an acquisition of a company; Lactation Supplies as Medical Expenses; Determination Letter Five-Year Cycle; Guidance Regarding Termination of 403(b) Plans; and, Illinois Civil Union Law Impact on Employee Benefit Plans.
(Blank Rome LLP)
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Employee Ownership Update for March 1, 2011
Corey Rosen discusses the following: Employee participation in ESPPs is rising. At a Rutgers symposium, researchers presented more than 28 papers. The IRS has put into regulations the long-held assumption that companies are considered privately held unless their stock is readily tradable on an established security market. A district court held that, unless fiduciary decisions actually caused investment losses in employer stock, fiduciaries could not be held accountable for them. (National Center for Employee Ownership
(NCEO))
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