[Guidance Overview]
How Will the 'Cadillac Tax' Impact Your OPEB Plan?
"If your plan is self-insured, then you are the coverage provider paying the tax. You will need to decide whether to reduce benefits to avoid the tax or how the additional cost will be allocated by you and/or the participants."
(Van Iwaarden Associates)
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[Guidance Overview]
Military Launches Health Care Option for Adult Children
"An interim final rule published in Wednesday's Federal Register establishes the TRICARE Young Adult Program, a provision in the fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Act. The new program gives unmarried dependents who don't have their own employer-based insurance the option of buying month-to-month health coverage until age 26 . . . ."
(Government Executive)
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[Guidance Overview]
New Claim List Functionality Available, ERRP Announced
"Plan sponsors are now able to complete claim list setup in the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) Secure Website (SWS) and submit claim lists via either the ERRP SWS or the plan sponsor's or specified vendor's mainframe to the ERRP mainframe."
(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business)
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[Guidance Overview]
Employer's Right to Privately Settle Past FMLA Claims Affirmed by Fourth Circuit (PDF)
"In a recent unpublished decision, the Fourth Circuit confirmed that the DOL's revised regulations supersede Taylor. Specifically, in Whiting v. Johns Hopkins Hospital, the appellate court affirmed the enforcement of a private release signed by plaintiff in 2007 and the granting of summary judgment to the employer on plaintiff's FMLA claim."
(Littler Mendelson P.C.)
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Innovations in Employment-Based Health Benefits (PDF)
"Nearly a hundred health policy experts, senior private-sector HR representatives, and insurance and health officials examined some innovative employer-driven programs during a daylong policy forum held by [EBRI]. . . . This article summarizes the presentations and debate during that forum."
(Employee Benefit Research Institute)
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Benefits in General; Executive Compensation
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[Guidance Overview]
Claims for Administrative Record and Statutory Penalties Advance Over Challenge
"The plaintiffs in this case argue that the defendants failed to produce documents in derogation of their duties under the DOL claims regulation. The claims regulation embodies a sort of 'due process' for benefit claimants pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 1133 which states . . . ."
(Roy Harmon III / Health Plan Law)
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Press Releases
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