by Ed Fensholt | April 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
A federal appeals court has ruled that the federal prohibition on employment discrimination based on an employee’s sex extends to discrimination based on sexual orientation. The ruling has implications beyond hiring, firing and compensation. It will also affect how...
by Ed Fensholt | February 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
Isobel Crawley: “What else could we drink to? We’re going forward into the future, not back into the past.” Dowager Countess: “If only we had the choice.” — The last lines spoken in the hit series, Downton Abbey ...
by Ed Fensholt | October 28, 2016 | Compliance Services, Health Reform, Individual Mandate, Insurance Exchanges, Uncategorized
It could not have been more obvious. When we were on Capitol Hill in 2009 and 2010 talking to members of Congress about the impending Affordable Care Act, we told anyone willing to listen, “If you’re going to federally subsidize individual insurance coverage in new...
by Ed Fensholt | May 13, 2016 | Compliance Services, Health Reform
A federal trial court judge has ruled that the Obama Administration cannot use federal funds to reimburse health insurers providing cost-sharing subsidies in the online health insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The judge won’t enforce her...
by Ed Fensholt | April 22, 2016 | Compliance Services, Uncategorized
Another federal appeals court, this time the First Circuit Court of Appeals, recently ruled that if an ERISA plan wants to enforce a plan-imposed time limit for suing the plan, it must disclose that limit in the claim denial notice even if the limit is described in...
