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Legal Developments Impacting Health and Welfare Plans – 2020 Year-End Update

Congress and agencies issued various relief and rules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: The Families First Coronavirus Response Act temporarily requires group health plans to cover COVID-19 testing and related services without cost-sharing. The Coronavirus Aid, [...]

MMPL2021-02-03T18:09:51+00:00February 2021|
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Legal Developments Impacting Retirement Plans – 2020 Year-End Update

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) included several provisions impacting retirement plans, all of which were modeled after prior legislation providing financial relief options to participants in times of national disaster or other [...]

MMPL2021-02-03T18:09:59+00:00February 2021|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING RETIREMENT PLANS – 2019 YEAR-END UPDATE

In December 2019, Congress passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (SECURE Act) as part of the Appropriations Act. See our article for additional information. Pursuant to an Executive Order, the IRS proposed updates [...]

MMPL2020-02-10T03:44:59+00:00January 2020|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING HEALTH AND WELFARE PLANS – 2019 YEAR-END UPDATE

In December 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of AppealsTexas v. United States, 945 F.3d 355 (5th Cir. 2019), as revised (Dec. 20, 2019).  struck down the individual mandate penalty under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for an individual [...]

MMPL2020-02-10T03:47:33+00:00January 2020|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING HEALTH AND WELFARE PLANS 2018 YEAR-END UPDATE

The 2017 tax reform legislation eliminated the individual mandate penalty under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for when an individual does not maintain health coverage.  Thereafter, several states sued the federal government, alleging that this change made [...]

MMPL2020-02-11T00:33:03+00:00February 2019|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING RETIREMENT PLANS 2018 YEAR-END UPDATE

In October 2018, the DOL issued proposed regulations that would permit the establishment of association retirement plans.  The proposed regulations are similar to the DOL’s regulations permitting the establishment of association health plans that were finalized in [...]

MMPL2020-02-11T00:35:16+00:00February 2019|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING RETIREMENT PLANS 2017 YEAR-END UPDATE

In August 2017, a Ninth Circuit district court held a plan fiduciary violated its continuing duty to monitor plan investments under ERISA when it did not replace retail-class mutual funds with lower cost institutional-class funds. (This is [...]

MMPL2019-01-31T23:47:13+00:00February 2018|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING HEALTH AND WELFARE PLANS 2017 YEAR-END UPDATE

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in December 2017. The Act eliminated the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) beginning in 2019. And so individuals will no longer owe a tax [...]

MMPL2019-01-31T23:48:39+00:00February 2018|
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LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS IMPACTING HEALTH AND WELFARE PLANS (OTHER THAN HEALTH CARE REFORM) 2016 YEAR-END UPDATE

1.   In 2016, the IRS, DOL and HHS (the "Agencies") issued additional guidance on the federal mental health parity law. They confirmed plans cannot impose different "non-quantitative treatment limitations" (such as preauthorization requirements) on mental health and substance abuse [...]

MMPL2018-05-17T00:36:35+00:00January 2017|
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HEALTH CARE REFORM (“PPACA”) LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS 2016 YEAR-END UPDATE

1.   Under PPACA, non-grandfathered plans must provide in-network preventive care benefitswithout cost-sharing. In 2016, the IRS, DOL and HHS (the "Agencies") published FAQs clarifying preventive care requirements for colonoscopies and contraceptives. Also, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [...]

MMPL2018-05-17T00:37:08+00:00January 2017|
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