Maintenance of the health care reform status quo in Washington, D.C. (the re-election of President Barack Obama, with a split congress) means that implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) likely will move forward largely…
Following recent announcements by both the IRS and the Social Security Administration, we now know most of the dollar amounts that employers will need to administer their benefit plans for 2013.
Sponsors of self-funded health plans often fail to offer COBRA coverage on a timely basis to employees who are placed on a leave of absence. This mistake can lead to a most unpleasant result – the denial of stop loss coverage.
Sponsors of single-employer defined benefit pension plans will need to amend those plans soon to comply with a critical requirement of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
It happens all the time: Employees who are considering retirement ask HR staff about their post-employment benefits. If the answers those employees receive turn out to be incorrect, the responders may be accused of violating their fiduciary duties und…
By now, most retirement plan sponsors will have received a flurry of disclosures from vendors who provide services to their plans. Those disclosures (commonly known as 408(b)(2) notices) should have been provided by July 1, 2012. Employers may think th…
Check out the latest episode in the sprawling saga of equitable remedies under ERISA. The question, as always, is whether a participant is entitled to something for which the plan document does not expressly provide. This time, the answer appears to be “yes.”
Recent activity by regulators suggests a trend toward stricter HIPAA enforcement.
In the last two years, the IRS has issued several pieces of guidance regarding the correction of deferred compensation arrangements that violate the requirements of Code Section 409A.
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