by Paula Day | August 31, 2022 | State and Local Issues, The Coronavirus
Nearly nine months ago in December 2021, a district court’s nationwide injunction of the federal contractor vaccine mandate relieved covered contractor employers of the requirement to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine. At that time, the Biden administration completely...
by Ed Fensholt | April 11, 2022 | Affordable Care Act, Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA
The Biden administration has proposed regulations under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to make more employees’ family members eligible for subsidized coverage through ACA marketplaces, or insurance exchanges. The move will not affect employers’ obligations under the...
by Ethan McWilliams | February 10, 2022 | CHIPRA, Compliance Services, DOL, ERISA, Mental Health Parity, Reporting and Disclosure
ERISA penalties adjusted for inflation The Department of Labor’s (DOL) enforcement wing, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), recently made inflation adjustments to penalty amounts for various ERISA welfare benefit plan violations. Federal regulations...
by Ed Fensholt | January 31, 2022 | Compliance Services, Health Savings Accounts, State and Local Issues
When I was a boy, my dad used to tell me, “If you don’t know what you’re doing, just ask. Better to ask, son, than to have to come back later to fix something you messed up.” It’s a mantra that state legislators should take to heart. Oklahoma is the latest state to...
by Paula Day | January 26, 2022 | Compliance Services, State and Local Issues, The Coronavirus
On Jan. 25, 2022, OSHA withdrew the Nov. 5, 2021, Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) which was in a state of flux from the time it was published until the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the nationwide stay earlier this month. While employers were left wondering what...
by Ruhe Wadud | January 13, 2022 | Affordable Care Act, Compliance Services
Federal regulators recently called healthcare plan sponsors’ attention to new preventive care requirements, and indicated as well the regulators’ growing impatience with the failure by many plans to adequately comply with certain long-standing preventive care...
