Santa Barbara, CA
Employee benefits Lawyer at Santa Barbara, CA
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits, Employment & Labor
The IRS Employee Plans Compliance Unit (EPCU) is in the process of sending over 300 written questionnaires to a random sample of small, medium, and large institutes of higher education, including priva...
See Full GuideOn June 2 the California Assembly passed legislation that would subject health care coverage to the same oversight and rate approval process that currently applies to home, auto and property/casualty i...
See Full GuideIRS, DOL Increase Scrutiny of Section 403(b)Plans Tax-exempt organizations are now two and a half years into a major overhaul of the tax regulations and other rules governing Internal Revenue Code Sec...
See Full GuideState Privacy Breach Laws May TrumpHIPAA/HITECH When HITECH amended HIPAA in 2009 it empowered state attorneys general to sue breaching parties to enforce the privacy and security rights of their resp...
See Full GuideIt is an oft-cited statistic that up to 75% of current health care costs are incurred treating chronic conditions high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. that largely are preventable through healthier li...
See Full GuideState Privacy Breach Laws May TrumpHIPAA/HITECH When HITECH amended HIPAA in 2009 it empowered state attorneys general to sue breaching parties to enforce the privacy and security rights of their resp...
See Full GuideIn late December, 2010 the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2011-1, stating that compliance with nondiscrimination rules for insured group health plans, otherwise slated to go into effect on Janu...
See Full GuideThe Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury have just released text of an amendment to grandfathering regulations, allowing an insured group health plan to change insurance carrier...
See Full GuideIntroduction — What is “Grandfathering”? In March of this year Congress passed major health care reform legislation, specifically, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Affordable Care Act...
See Full GuideA. Two steps a plan must take to remain grandfathered: 1. Beginning with the 2011 plan year, include a written statement of the employer’s belief that their group health plan(s) is/are a grandfathere...
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