by Ed Fensholt | January 2, 2019 | Health Reform, Health Reform / ACA, Individual Mandate
The federal trial court judge who last month struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, and then proceeded to strike the entire ACA, ruled on Sunday that the law remains in effect pending appeal. The judge also ruled on Sunday that the states...
by Ed Fensholt | December 28, 2018 | Health Reform
Updated Jan. 22, 2019 The other shoe drops on the Trump administration’s contraceptives coverage rule A second federal judge has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s recently final regulation on contraceptive coverage under group health plans. The...
by Ed Fensholt | September 5, 2018 | Health Reform
When I was a boy, I would sometimes seek permission from my father to do something that I was fairly sure (if not entirely certain) my mother would disapprove of. Dad would inevitably say, “OK by me, but ask your mother.” Dad’s reluctance to be the decider was...
by Ed Fensholt | August 24, 2018 | Paid Leave Laws, State and Local Issues
The current scourge of employers everywhere, particularly those with employees in multiple cities or states, is the proliferation of different paid leave laws. While there are many virtues to paid sick leave from employees’ perspective, the laws differ in their scope...
by Ed Fensholt | August 15, 2018 | Compliance Services, ERISA, Insurance Exchanges, State and Local Issues, Uncategorized
The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), an employee benefits advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Seattle, seeking to overturn a Seattle initiative compelling large hotels to provide generous and heavily subsidized health insurance to their...
