"Although the State of Michigan immediately filed an appeal of the court's order and a motion to stay its directive to reinstate the ballot initiatives as originally enacted, the current status of Michigan's minimum wage and paid sick leave laws remains in flux. Should the court's order ultimately be upheld, here is how the laws would change."  MORE >>

"An animal-wrangler's health plan can stop covering his family's medical expenses to offset its lien on a $100,000 tort settlement that his older daughter received but has long since spent, a federal appeals court held.... While [ERISA] limited MPI's right to sue the Mulls, it did not stop the plan from including out-of-court 'self-help' remedies negotiated with the employees' union, enforcing those remedies, or raising them as defenses against the Mulls' lawsuit, Circuit Judge Richard Clifton wrote for the panel." [Mull v. Motion Picture Industry Health Plan, No. 20-56315 (9th Cir. Jul. 25, 2022)]  MORE >>

"[T]he Seventh Circuit has ruled that an individual may still have a cognizable civil rights lawsuit even if his employer merely discouraged him, rather than formally denied him, from taking leave under the [FMLA].... [T]he court clarified that workers need only show that their employers interfered with their FMLA leave requests to state a viable claim for violating the statute." [Ziccarelli v. Dart, No. 19-3435 (7th Cir. Jun. 1, 2022)]  MORE >>

"The main concerns are the scope of the ERISA plan precedent created by permitting ineligible dependent coverage and the insurance carrier or stop-loss provider refusing to cover claims for the ineligible dependent."  MORE >>

"[An Oklahoma] health center will now pay $875,000 in fines to resolve a third part breach of a web server ... which resulted in disclosure of the PHI of more than 275,000 individuals ... Had the medical center reported the breach when they were first notified in 2016, or taken steps to make their data more secure, it is likely that the consequences they faced would have been less severe.... If a breach is discovered, ... it is imperative to act quickly to prevent the escalation of the breach or harsh sanctions."  MORE >>

59 pages. "This report offers a snapshot of [Apple's] work to advance health.... [Apple's] vision for the future is to continue to create science-based technology that equips people with even more information and acts as an intelligent guardian for their health, so they're no longer passengers on their own health journey."  MORE >>