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Fifty Years of ERISA

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On Labor Day fifty years ago, September 2, 1974, President Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) into law. It is a combination of tax and labor law incorporating trust law like fiduciary...more

Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

You Say It’s Your Birthday?! Well, It’s ERISA’s Birthday, Too!

Employee benefits law is mostly drawn from two federal sources—the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA. Just what is “ERISA,” though? Its official reference is the “Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.” That means the...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Happy National Employee Benefits Day 2024!

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To all those who work in the employee benefits arena, whether in legal, finance, benefits administration, payroll, tax, human resources, or many other disciplines, this is our annual reminder to celebrate the valuable and...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Health Reimbursement Arrangements: An Option for Small Employers

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Though the employer shared responsibility provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) do not apply to small employers (generally, employers with fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees), many...more

The Wagner Law Group

Merger and Acquisition Considerations for Employee Benefit Plans

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In the context of mergers and acquisitions, an acquisition target’s qualified retirement plans, health plans, executive compensation arrangements, and benefit programs (referred to collectively as “benefit programs”) can all...more

Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Managing Welfare Plan Risk: The Fiduciary Committee

Fiduciary committees have long been established in connection with retirement plans to manage the investment, legal compliance, and operational risks that can arise under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,...more

Snell & Wilmer

2023 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists (Part 1) Health and Welfare

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We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues....more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus - Volume III, September 2023

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Regulators Hit Jackpot: Off-Channel Communications - Several years before announcing the first “off-channel” communications enforcement action, the SEC and FINRA cautioned broker-dealers and investment advisers about...more

Carlton Fields

Stakes Are High: Lawsuits Expose Deficient COBRA Notices

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Not many general counsels will tell you that their company’s COBRA notice is what keeps them up at night. But recent class action litigation highlights challenges to COBRA notices and issues that can be easily addressed to...more

Saul Ewing LLP

A Wellness Check for Your Employee Benefit Plans Part 3: Health and Welfare Surprises

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In the past two weeks, we have presented a few items that plan sponsors can review in hopes of curbing common employee benefits and executive compensation errors.  This week in our Employee Retirement Income Security Act of...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

2023 ERISA Welfare Plan Automatic Participant Disclosures Checklist

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ERISA requires plan sponsors to distribute SPDs to inform participants of their benefits, rights, and obligations under the plan and describe how the plan operates. Department of Labor (DOL) regulations (available here)...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Takeaways from a Recent COBRA Notice Class Action Settlement

Recent years have seen a barrage of class action lawsuits alleging that group health plan continuation coverage election notices, required under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), are deficient in one...more

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As Talk of the Economy Cooling Persists, Employers are Reducing their Workforces

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As talk of an economic slowdown persists, so have the number of layoff an- nouncements hitting the news. While the last quarter of 2022 saw the technology and financial sectors lay off thousands of workers, in 2023, this...more

Snell & Wilmer

Another HIPAA Special Enrollment Deadline Extension – What’s a Group Health Plan to Do?

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Just when you thought the confusing COVID-19 ERISA deadline extensions were behind you, the Biden-Harris Administration asks you to reconsider. ...more

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Key Takeaways | Putting Employee Wellness Programs to Work

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During this session, panelists discussed the unique opportunities and challenges of digital-health wellness programs that partner with employers and health plans in considering, adopting and operationalizing wellness programs...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The End of the COVID-19 Emergency Declarations

Today marks the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency that first began on March 13, 2020. The end of the public health emergency has a wide range of implications for employer sponsored benefit plans. This alert...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Implications for Benefit Plans of the End of the COVID-19 National Emergency and Public Health Emergency

On Monday, April 10, President Biden signed a congressional resolution immediately ending the COVID-19 National Emergency and he had previously announced that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) will expire on May 11....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Agencies Release FAQs Confirming Impact of End of the COVID-19 Emergency Declarations on Employee Benefit Plans

Employers should prepare now for impacts to their employee benefit plans when the COVID-19 Outbreak Period expires. On March 29, 2023, in anticipation of the ends of both the National Emergency and Public Health Emergency,...more

Alston & Bird

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of the COVID Mandates and Outbreak Period Extensions

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The National Emergency brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic may be at an end, but there are still administrative details to sort out. Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group provides in-depth analysis for how...more

Dickinson Wright

End of the COVID-19 Emergency – Impact on Employee Benefit Plans

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On March 29, 2023, the Departments of Labor (“DOL”), Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Treasury (the “Departments”) published FAQs Part 58 on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), the Coronavirus Aid,...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Your Employee Benefit Plans May Need a Check Up: Nearing the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Where did the time go? Just a brief 1,199 days after it began, the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is coming to an end. The PHE formally ends on May 11, 2023, short of any unexpected developments. And that means the...more

Morgan Lewis

COVID-19 Public Health and National Emergencies to End May 11—or Earlier

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With the COVID-19 public health emergency and the presidential declaration of national emergency intended to end on May 11 and the US government recently issuing guidance on unwinding these emergency declarations, this...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Don’t Let Bank Uncertainty Delay Payroll: Considerations for Employers

With bank uncertainty making headlines, we answer employers’ most frequently asked questions about the consequences of payroll delays, strategies for mitigating risk and more. ...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

What the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Employee Benefit Plan Deadlines and Coverage

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President Biden announced that the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) and the National Emergency declared by President Trump in 2020 will end on May 11, 2023. The PHE relief issued in response to the pandemic affected...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

The End of the Line Draws Near for COVID-19 Plan Deadline Extensions

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration released a Statement of Administration Policy providing that the Administration intends to end the COVID-19 National Emergency declared in 2020 (the “National Emergency”) on May...more

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