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The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a resolution agreement with...

Employers got an unexpected Christmas present this year when President Obama signed a bill that pushs back the effective date of the...

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) protects the retirement incomes of more than 41 million workers in more than 24,000...

Between January and April 2009, the employer withheld over $55,000 in premiums from employee paychecks that the employer was supposed to...

The EEOC recently released proposed rule on GINA and Wellness Programs. GINA prohibits employers from acquiring an employee’s genetic...

A growing trend in ERISA litigation is when medical providers to have patients assign their rights under a health insurance plan to the...

The Employee Benefit Security Administration recently released Interpretive Bulletin (IB 2015-1), which clarifies ERISA fiduciary...

A federal district court prohibited a fully insured plan from establishing a deadline for bringing a claim that was shorter than the...

The Third Circuit recently held that plan administrators must include any plan specific statute of limitations in the benefits denial...

In a recent Eastern District of Tennessee decision, the court awarded a plaintiff almost $75,000 in damages resulting from the...

The Second Circuit recently ruled that a group of health plan participants, and an association of mental health care providers, could sue...

In September, the Department of Treasury issued rules for administering the participant vote on an application to suspend benefits under...

In brief, at least for 2015, the IRS states that Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) contributing to multiemployer group health plans...

Our firm was pleased to earn a favorable decision from the Seventh Circuit in Tsareff v. ManWeb Services, Inc. In that case, the Court...

OCR has announced that appoximately 350 covered entities and at most the same number of business associates will be selected for HIPAA...

Obergefell v. Hodges In a much anticipated decision, the Supreme Court issued a decision finding that all fifty states must issue...

King v. Burwell The United States Supreme Court held that the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") allows tax credits for health insurance...

The Department of Labor ("DOL") recently released its re-proposal of the crucial regulation that defines who is a fiduciary in connection...

The revised template for the ACA-required Summary of Benefits and Coverage ("SBC") is on hold again. It is now expected that the new...

Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 Long-awaited legislation focused on multiemployer pension plans was signed into law by President...