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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in King v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, has ruled that the ACA does not prohibit lifetime benefit maximums for retiree-only plans. However, the court also determined that the lifetime benefit maximum contained in an...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in Bradshaw v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., has rejected a disability insurer's decision to deny disability benefits to an insured who suffered a stroke days after giving birth on the basis that her...
Background - Transition Period May be Extended Until July 1, 2019 The DOL recently proposed to extend the transition period by 18 months (i.e., from January 1, 2018 to July 1, 2019) for the full implementation of the Best Interest Contract Exemption ("BICE"), the...
A Massachusetts District Court, in Eichenholz v. Brinks Incorporated, et. al., has determined that an individual supervisor may be held personally liable for violating an employee's FMLA rights. Background. In 2015, the plaintiff notified his supervisor that he needed...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") released an updated EEO-1 reporting form in August of 2016, which requires covered employers to provide employee pay data beginning in March 2018. The employer pay data was intended to provide information that would...
The Internal Revenue Service has released Revenue Procedure 2017-36 to implement index adjustments in 2018 for certain Affordable Care Act ("ACA") contribution percentages used for purposes of determining affordability under the employer shared responsibility mandate....
Today, the DOL released its full proposal to extend the transition period by 18 months for the full implementation of the Best Interest Contract Exemption ("BICE"), the Principal Transactions Exemption, and PTE 84-24 (relating to sales of annuities and other...
The IRS recently released four information letters to clarify and confirm that the employer and individual mandate penalties of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") continue to apply. The information letters were issued in response to President Trump's Executive Order...
DOL recently announced that it will review ERISA's disability claims procedures regulations for questions of law and policy to determine if they should be amended, delayed, or withdrawn. The regulations, which were finalized in December 2016 and slated to take effect...
In an August 9, 2017 court filing, the U. S. Department of Labor ("DOL") announced that it had, on August 9, taken steps to delay the date for full implementation of the Best Interest Contract Exemption ("BICE") and other related prohibited transaction exemptions that...