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• Regulatory Compliance
 
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New San Francisco & Massachusetts Guidance (9/15/08)
• IRS Updates Long-Standing Proposed Cafeteria Plan Regulations (8/28/07)
• San Francisco's New Paid Sick Leave Ordinance and Other California Employment Law Issues (3/6/07)
• DOL, Treasury & HHS issue final HIPAA Wellness Program Rules (12/21/06)
• DOL, Treasury & HHS issue final HIPAA Nondiscrimination Rules (12/21/06)
• Another Reason 40 is the New 30: The ADEA May Not Protect You From Age Discrimination (9/12/06)
• IRS Proposed Comparability Regulations for Employer Contributions to HSAs (9/16/2005)
• IRS Proposed Regulations Update and Clarify Rules on Dependent Care Assistance Expenses (7/5/06)
• Same-Sex Domestic Partner Benefits – Current Legal and Plan Drafting Issues (PDF, 134kb) (06/2004)
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 COBRA Final Rules Contain Helpful Model Notices For Use By Plan Administrators But Also Impose Additional Notice Requirements (11/4/2004)
• Comments on COBRA Notice Regulations (7/31/2003)
• COBRA Proposed Regulations Contain Helpful Guidance in the Form of Model Notices But Impose New Notice Requirements (6/9/2003)
• New Health Tax Credit, New COBRA Election Period, Contained in Enacted Trade Bill (11/1/2002)
• Department of Labor Issues Final Claims Regulations (7/1/2001)
• DOL, IRS, and HHS Issue Final Nondiscrimination Rules (5/1/2001)
   
• Managed Care Organizations
 
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 Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila (7/29/2004)
• Groom Law Group files Amicus Curiae brief urging U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Aetna Health Inc., v. Davila (10/17/2003)
• Kentucky Association of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller (4/18/2003)
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court finds that State Law Claims Against Plan Decision-Makers for (7/1/2001)
• Amicus brief on Alta Health & Life Ins. v. Gilbert, prepared by Groom Law Group (4/1/2001)
   
• Retiree Health and Welfare Plan Benefits
 
• 3d Cir Upholds EEOC Reg on Retiree Medical Plans & Medicare (6/15/07)
• Current Health Plan Funding Opportunities (PDF, 73kb) (3/23/06)
• Tax-Free Subsidies For Employer-Sponsored Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (New Medicare Part D § 1860D-22) (1/15/2004)
• Erie County Retiree Health ADEA Litigation Settles -- Be Careful What the EEOC Once Asked For (4/30/2002)
• District Court Holds on Remand that Erie County's Retiree Health Program Flunks ADEA's (7/1/2001)
   
• Litigation
 
• 9th Cir Holds ERISA Does Not Preempt SF Health Care Security Ordinance (10/02/08)
• Federal Courts Appear to Disagree on Whether ERISA Preempts State and Local Health Reform Laws (3/12/08)
• Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila (7/29/2004)
• Groom Law Group files Amicus Curiae brief urging U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Aetna Health Inc., v. Davila (10/17/2003)
• Kentucky Association of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller (4/18/2003)
• Groom Law Group Files Amicus Curiae Brief in Supreme Court Treating Physician Rule Case (3/25/2003)
• Erie County Retiree Health ADEA Litigation Settles -- Be Careful What the EEOC Once Asked For (4/30/2002)
• Groom Law Group Files Amici Curiae Brief to the Supreme Court of Alabama (4/1/2002)
• Eleventh Circuit Preemption Decisions (2/4/2002)
• District Court Holds on Remand that Erie County's Retiree Health Program Flunks ADEA's (7/1/2001)
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 Pennsylvania Supreme Court finds that State Law Claims Against Plan Decision-Makers for (7/1/2001)
• Title VII Prohibits Exclusion of Prescription Contraceptives from Comprehensive Prescription Coverage under Employer's Health Plan. (7/1/2001)
• Amicus brief on Alta Health & Life Ins. v. Gilbert, prepared by Groom Law Group (4/1/2001)
• Evidentiary Scope of Judicial Review of Discretionary Employee Benefit Plan Decisions (A Circuit-By-Circuit Review) (4/1/2001)
• Eleventh Circuit Rejects Plan's Interpretation on Provider Discounts (3/1/2001)
   
• Defined Contribution Health Plans (HSA, FSA, HRA)
 
• Recent IRS Guidance on Health Savings Accounts (7/10/08)
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Congressional Hearing Raises Concerns About HSAs (5/19/08)

• IRS Announces 2009 HSA/HDHP Limits (5/15/08)
• IRS Prop Rules on Employer Comparable Contribution to HSAs (6/15/07)
• IRS Announces 2008 HSA/HDHP Limits (6/7/07)
• Treasury and IRS Issue Guidance on HRA & Health FSA Transfers to HSAs (2/27/07)
• HSA Provisions in the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (1/04/2007)
• IRS Expands Use of Debit/Credit Card Technology for Health Plans and Dependent Care Assistance Programs (7/14/2006)
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 Recent IRS Guidance on FSA/HSA/HRA Accounts (6/6/2005)
• IRS Issues Comprehensive HSA Guidance That Clarifies Many Issues and Sets Forth Several New Rules (8/2/2004)
• Treasury Guidance Restricts Use of Health Savings Account (HSA) with Health Flexible Spending Arrangement (FSA) and/or Health Reimbursement Arrangement (5/19/2004)
• Health Savings Accounts – Favorable IRS And DOL Guidance (4/13/2004)
• How Health Savings Accounts Compare To Health Flexible Spending Arrangements (FSAs) and Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) (12/3/2003)
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 IRS Revenue Ruling Allowing Health Plans to Reimburse Nonprescription Medicine and Drugs (9/8/2003)
• Recent Trend in Health Care: Defined Contribution Health Care Arrangements (2/14/2002)
   
• Disability Benefits
 
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 IRS Ruling Confirms Tax-Planning Opportunities for LTD Plans (6/23/2004)
   
• Legislation
 
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (7/2/08)
• Paid Sick Leave in the Nation's Capital (6/12/08)
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HEART Act Provides Benefits for Those in Military Service (6/3/08)

• New Health Tax Credit, New COBRA Election Period, Contained in Enacted Trade Bill (11/1/2002)
• Synopsis of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act (1/7/2002)
   
• Other
 
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December Health Plan Update (12/18/07)

• DOL Guidance Provides Further Clarification on HSAs and ERISA (10/31/06)
• Health Opportunity Patient Empowerment Act of 2006 (10/30/06)
• IRS Final Comparability Regulations for Employer Contributions to HSAs (8/8/06)
• The Top 10 funding issues for HSA account owners and employers (2/13/06)
• Brief of Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. in Opposition to Petitioners' Writ of Certiorari (PDF,144kb)
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 Employer-Sponsored College Savings Plans— An Attractive New Employee Benefit? (10/7/2002)
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 Innovative Uses of Insurance for Employee Benefits (9/17/2002)     
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 Funding Employee Benefits Through Captives: ERISA Issues (9/17/2002)
 
     
 
 
     
     
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