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Dickinson Wright PLLC
July 20, 2025
"A recent case by the Tennessee Court of Appeals highlights the importance of changing one's insurance and retirement policy beneficiaries after divorce. This is true no matter what the divorce documents say and no matter what any order signed by a Judge says." [Estate of Birdwell v. O'Dell, No. M2024-00025-COA-R3-CV (Ct. App. Tenn. Feb. 24, 2025)]
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
May 24, 2023
"[T]he NYSE and Nasdaq have issued proposed listing standards related to the recovery of erroneously awarded executive compensation, commonly referred to as the 'clawback' rules. The proposed listing standards closely follow the SEC's Rule 10D-1 issued under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 'Exchange Act') in October 2022."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
Jan. 26, 2023
"If not further delayed or voided, the Michigan Earned Sick Time Act will require all employers in Michigan to provide at least 72 hours of sick leave to every employee in Michigan (including exempt, non-exempt, full-time, part-time, occasional, temporary, etc.) For 'small employers' (with fewer than ten employees), at least 40 of those 72 hours must be paid, and 32 hours may be unpaid. All employers with ten or more employees, all 72 hours must be paid."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
July 7, 2022
"Employers should conduct a census of the states in which their employees work and reside (which has become more challenging in the era of COVID-19 and remote work) and analyze the applicable laws in those states. Plan language that was permissible prior to Dobbs may no longer be permissible after Dobbs. This may require plan amendments and revisions to summary plan descriptions."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
Mar. 29, 2022
"[T]he Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's order requiring UBH to reprocess more than 60,000 claims that had initially been denied for not meeting UBH's medical necessity guidelines. The memorandum decision was surprisingly short -- and that has both positive and negative implications for mental health parity litigation." [Wit, et al. v. United Behavioral Health, Nos. 20-17363, 21-15193, 20-17364, 21-15194 (9th Cir. Mar. 22, 2022; unpub.)]
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
Apr. 26, 2021
"The CAA amends ERISA Section 408(b)(2) to require ... that certain service providers make fee disclosures to group health plans. These disclosures must be made in order for the contract with the service provider to be 'reasonable' and thus exempt from the prohibited transaction rules. The amendment is very similar to, and appears to be largely modeled after, the retirement plan fee disclosure rules."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
Mar. 22, 2021
"[E]ach plan sponsor should ... confirm that the insurer/TPA is preparing to make the machine-readable files publicly available ... [A] self-funded plan is responsible if the TPA fails to comply, so the plan sponsor should consider whether other protections are appropriate, such as a specific indemnification from the TPA."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
Mar. 14, 2021
"Plan sponsors should: [1] Determine how many participants have balances remaining in their FSAs as of the end of the 2020 plan year and the dollar amount of the balances.... [2] [Determine] whether there are any limitations on the TPA's ability to accommodate the changes that the employer is considering."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
July 9, 2020
"The Final Rule makes clear that health insurance companies are not considered to be principally engaged in the provision of healthcare solely because they sell health insurance, if not doing so through one of the marketplaces. Due to this change, many health insurers will likely argue that when the rule changes take effect, Section 1557 no longer applies to them, or if it does, only to a small portion of its program. Benefits administrators may or may not be able to make a similar argument."
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Dickinson Wright PLLC
May 7, 2019
"[M]ost people assume that HIPAA protects health information from disclosure or at least provides some higher level of security over health information. However, HIPAA is narrower than most people believe... HHS's FAQs [are] specific to transactions between a patient, a healthcare provider, and the healthcare provider recommending a course of treatment that includes transmitting healthcare information to an app.... The key takeaway here is that app users bear the bulk of responsibility when they choose to input their personal health or other information into apps."
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