by keyseradmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits
By Trip VanderWal On February 26, 2021, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (collectively the “Departments”) issued additional FAQs with respect to the implementation of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) and the...
by keyseradmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits
Hammer v. Johnson Senior Ctr., 2020 WL 7029160 (W.D. Va. 2020) When the employee in this case was diagnosed with cancer, she took a medical leave and began treatment. Around the same time, her employer was experiencing internal upheaval and financial pressures, and it...
by keyseradmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Human Resources
Health insurance issuers and employment-based group health plans face new federal requirements to demonstrate their mental health parity compliance. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-260 (CAA, or the Act), Division BB, Sec. 203 requires plans...
by keyseradmin | Jan 18, 2021 | Compliance, Employee Benefits
The DOL, IRS, and HHS have issued regulations to provide greater flexibility for grandfathered group health plan sponsors and insurers to make certain cost-sharing changes without causing a loss of grandfather status. Grandfathered plans are group health plans (or...
