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Althea Day
On March 29, 2012, Morgan Lewis presented the first installment in the 409A Basics Webinar Series, which discussed the basics of Section 409A. Topics discussed included: Arrangements subject to, and excluded from, S... more
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Saghi Fattahian, Andy Anderson
As they prepare for open enrollment this fall, group health plan sponsors and insurers have a lot of work to do to make sure they are in compliance with the final Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) rules. The recently issu... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Lauren Licastro
Health plan agrees to pay $1.5 million following HHS investigation of self-reported data breach.
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Claudia Hinsch, Brian Dougherty
Brian Dougherty, Claudia Hinsch, and Susan Lastowski, panelists
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Saghi Fattahian, Lauren Licastro, Andy Anderson
Final regulations provide detail on the format, content, and delivery standards group health plan sponsors and insurers must follow when issuing this information.
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A. James Vázquez-Azpiri, Tram-Anh Frank, François Vergne, Matthew Howse, Tony Mou, Mark Zelek, Eleanor Pelta, Walter Ahrens, Denise Backhouse, Zaitun Poonja
Morgan Lewis presented the first of a four part webinar sessions moderated by Morgan Lewis's International Labor and Employment team leader, Mark E. Zelek, entitled "Getting the Deal Through Labour & Employment 2011 - Man... more
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Craig Bitman, Amy Kelly, Althea Day
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Mark Simons
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I. Lee Falk, Azeez Hayne
Morgan Lewis presented a one-hour webinar discussing what plan sponsors should be doing with service provider disclosures and how they are dealing with enhanced participant disclosures. Topics discussed included: W... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits and Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Richman, I. Lee Falk, Donald Myers, Craig Bitman, Daniel Kleinman
Final regulation provides a number of helpful clarifications and changes, but continues to impose what will be a highly burdensome disclosure framework.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits and Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Richman, Donald Myers, Daniel Kleinman
Final regulation on required disclosures by plan service providers extends deadline for disclosures to July 1, 2012.
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Claudia Hinsch, David Fuller, Michael Puma
Morgan Lewis presents the second webinar in our two-part series discussing the treatment of independent workers by the legislative and executive branches, including proposed independent contractor legislation and developments... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Andy Anderson
Expanded guidance clarifies the types of plans and amounts that must be reported and requires employers to take additional steps to meet their Form W-2 reporting obligations.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Andy Anderson
As 2011 closes, plan sponsors of group health plans turn their attention to continued viability of grandfathered plan status, identifying insured plans that may be discriminatory, compliance with new claims and appeals rules, and W-2 reporting of the value of health coverage in 2012.
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits and Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Richman, I. Lee Falk, Carly Grey
The IRS announces that, pending further action by the DOL, indemnification arrangements described in AO 2011-09A will not be considered prohibited transactions.
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Timothy Lynch, David Fuller
Morgan Lewis presents part one of our webinar series discussing the treatment of independent workers by the legislative and executive branches, including proposed independent contractor legislation and developments from the I... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Michael Richman
In September 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) provided interim guidance, in the form of a temporary enforcement policy, detailing how the newly required disclosures for participant-directed retirement plans could be deli... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits and Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Richman, Steven Spencer, Craig Bitman, Donald Myers, Daniel Kleinman, I. Lee Falk, Steven Stone
On October 20, the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued Advisory Opinion 2011-09A (AO 2011-09A), in which it concludes that relief under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 80... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits and Investment Management LawFlash
Employee Benefits and Investment Management Practices
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has adopted a final regulation to implement the statutory exemption from the prohibited transaction rules of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA), for the pro... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Andy Anderson
Last week, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee signed legislation that significantly revises parts of the city's Health Care Security Ordinance (Ordinance). In particular, the revised Ordinance imposes detailed design and administrative... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Lauren Licastro, W. Reece Hirsch, Andy Anderson
HIPAA-covered entities, including employer health plan sponsors, should watch the mail for a letter from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requ... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits Practice
The end of the year marks the deadline for many tax and other qualification requirements for qualified retirement and savings plans. It is important that plan sponsors review whether any qualified plan action items must be addr... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits and Investment Management LawFlash
Michael Richman, Thomas Harman, Donald Myers, David Sirignano
The Division of Investment Management of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued a no-action letter to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), taking the position that disclosures required by a DOL regulati... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Michael Richman, Daniel Kleinman
According to Department of Labor (DOL) officials, the agency will soon publish a "final" final regulation on required disclosures by plan service providers under the statutory prohibited transaction exemption provided by Section... more
LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment Practice
In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit joined five other circuits in ruling that employer stock in a 401(k) plan is subject to a "presumption of prudence" that a plaintiff alleging fiduc... more