Santa Barbara, CA
Employee benefits Lawyer at Santa Barbara, CA
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits, Employment & Labor
January 10, 2012 The Affordable Care Act limits salary deferrals that may be made under a health flexible spending account (FSA) to $2,500 in taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013. Howev...
See Full GuideJanuary 5, 2012 In Notice 2012-9, published January 3, 2012, the IRS has updated guidance on employer reporting of group health care costs via Form W-2. The Notice replaces earlier guidance issued in M...
See Full GuideDecember 17, 2011 In a surprising move, the Department of Health and Human Services will not impose a uniform definition of essential health benefits (EHB) that individual and small group health insura...
See Full GuideDecember 12, 2011 It is not uncommon for employers to provide special terms to departing executives regarding their group health coverage that they do not generally offer to rank and file employees. C...
See Full GuideNovember 22, 2011 Plan sponsor and insurer compliance with a new disclosure requirement under the PPACA known as the Summary of Benefits and Coverage or SBC has been put on hold until the agencies res...
See Full GuideNovember 15, 2011 As summarized by this excellent post on SCOTUSBlog, the Court has allocated 5 1/2 hours of argument to the PPACA challenge, 2 hours of which will focus on the constitutionality of th...
See Full GuideNovember 3, 2011 Last month President Obama announced that the remaining 40,000 or so American troops in Iraq would be returning home by December 31 of this year; it is also expected that he will annou...
See Full GuideOctober 20, 2011 A 3.6% Social Security cost of living increase for 2012 has triggered increases in annual contribution and other dollar limits affecting 401(k) and other retirement plans, the Interna...
See Full GuideOn Friday, October 14, 2011 Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the administration was abandoning implementation of the CLASS Act, a component of the Patient Protection...
See Full GuideOctober 7, 2011 In an earlier post I described a HIPAA privacy breach that occurred when a spreadsheet detailing the emergency room treatment of nearly 20,000 patients of Stanford Hospital was posted ...
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