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23 Sep 2011, 1:23 pm
Filed under: Employee Benefits, Employers, Retirement Plans, Tax Tagged: Determination Letters, Employee Benefits, plan qualification, Retirement Plans, Tax [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 10:02 am
Knowing who is acting as a fiduciary and understanding those duties and liabilities and how to manage these risks significantly affects the exposure that an employer or member of its management risks as a result of an employer’s sponsorship in a group health plan or other employee benefit program. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 12:18 pm
Although a welfare plan participant’s beneficiaries may be eligible to receive benefits, and are therefore “covered” by the welfare benefit plan, plan administrators aren’t required to provide them with SPDs. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 11:58 am
The state, the city of Kalamazoo and the universities could, under this reading, find an alternative way to provide the benefits by restructuring the requirements of their plans, perhaps by basing eligibility entirely on cohabitation, or by allowing any unmarried employee to designate any one unrelated adult to be a beneficiary on their benefits plan (a strategem that was embraced in San Francisco, I believe, to make it possible for certain Catholic… [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 5:54 am
A 2011 inductee to the American College of Employee Benefits Council, immediate past-Chair and current Welfare Benefit Committee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPPT Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Arrangements, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council Representative, the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Plan Committee Vice Chair, former ABA Health Law Section Managed… [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 5:16 am
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Council, immediate past-Chair and current Welfare Benefit Committee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPPT Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Arrangements, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council Representative, the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Plan Committee Vice Chair, former ABA Health Law Section… [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 9:26 pm
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Council, immediate past Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice-Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefits Committee, a council member of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, and past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care… [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 1:56 pm
Any private-sector for-profit employer that offers employee benefits such as retirement accounts and health insurance must also establish a grievance and appeals process that employees can follow should they have any unresolved concerns about their plan. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 11:57 am
In order to strengthen and improve the protection of participants in employee welfare benefit plans, ERISA was passed in 1974. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 4:24 am
” It defines an “employee welfare benefit plan” as any program established by an employer to provide employees with medical care or benefits in the event of sickness, accident, disability, death or unemployment.ERISA is at the heart of opt-out. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 10:00 pm
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Key Legal Developments Tracker Stay informed on new developments. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm
Employers sponsoring health plans and members of their management named as plan fiduciaries or otherwise having input or oversight over the health plan should verify their company’s group health plan meets the out-of-pocket maximum rules of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) § 1302(c)(1) as well as a long list of other federal health benefit rules to minimize the risk that violations will obligate the sponsoring employer to… [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 2:34 pm
While many vendors offer similar tools and materials sold to employers and employee benefit plans, employers or benefit plan fiduciaries generally must pay fees, share promotional materials or meet at the requirements to deliver those resources as part of a vendor-supplied package. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 7:18 am
In an effort to compile everything in one list, I decided to just lay them all out as provided in the Reporting and Disclosure Guide for Employee Benefit Plans published by the DOL. [read post]
4 Aug 2012, 9:47 am
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Council, immediate past Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice-Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefits Committee, a council member of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, and past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care… [read post]
12 May 2013, 3:02 pm
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Council, immediate past Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice-Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefits Committee, a council member of the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, and past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care… [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm
While employers can design their group health plans to apply higher out-of-pocket limitations on coverages for non-essential benefits and out-of-network care, employers are cautioned to use care to ensure both that: The plan properly essential and non-essential health benefits, both in terms and in operation; and The application of higher out-of-pocket limitations for non-essential benefits does not violate other federal health plan rules such as… [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 1:12 pm
First, when deciding the skinny plan or other group health plan design, employers and their insurers, brokers, administrators and consultants need to ensure that the benefit plan coverage, benefits and other terms meet all applicable mandates of applicable federal, and in the case of insured, multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs) and certain staffing and leasing company arrangements, ACA’s insured plan mandates and… [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 10:31 am
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, State Bar of Texas and American Bar Association, Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, the Former Chair of the ABA RPTE Employee Benefit & Compensation Group and current Co-Chair of its Welfare Benefit Committee, Vice Chair of the ABA TIPS Employee Benefit Committee, an ABA Joint Committee on… [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 11:52 am
On one hand, being able to easily, economically, and quickly communicate with employees to schedule shifts and manage workload provides a major cost-savings benefit to employers and flexibility to employees. [read post]
