On October 27, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced that the Federally-Facilitated Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Marketplace Early Access…
An article in InsuranceNewsNet reported that only 2% of all eligible businesses have investigated small business health options program (SHOP) exchanges in the 15 states,…
On August 28, the Internal Revenue Service released draft instructions to two forms that large employers will use to report information required by the Affordable…
On July 14, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new enforcement guidance on the treatment of pregnant employees under the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act…
On May 12, the Department of Treasury issued final regulations on the tax treatment of payments by qualified retirement plans for accident and health insurance.…
On May 1, 2014, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held in Roe v. Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield…
As previously posted here, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled in a March 2013 decision that a nurse could not prove his Conscientious Employee Protection…
On Monday, June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court barred the federal government from penalizing several closely held, for-profit corporations for failing to cover morning-after pills…
On July 22nd, two contradictory decisions on the application of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended (the ACA) were issued.…
On July 22, two different U.S. Courts of Appeals issued conflicting decisions regarding the legality of the federal governments provision of subsidies to enrollees for…