Compliance News

Fall 2008
Key Topics: The Retirement Plan Fiduciary, Mount Everest and the Wall Street Melt Down; Medicare Expounds on Expansion of Data Collection; Wellness Programs May Get Sick Under Recent Law Changes; The State of the States; Retirement Roundup; and In the Courts.

November 7, 2008
Key Topics: Health Reform projections, the Obama - Biden Plan

2008 Summer
Key Topics: Benefits For the Discriminating Employer; More Employees Looking For Ticket To Ride; IRS Issues Rules For Health Coverage Through Divorced Parents; Virtual SPD May Mean No SPD; Snake Bit: Employer Loses Bid To Avoid Cobra Coverage; and Benefits ER.

2008 Spring
Key Topics: Mandated Paid Sick and Family Leave Laws; Department of Labor Proposes Massive Rewrite of FMLA Regulations, Asks for Comments on New Categories of FMLA Leave; IRS finalizes HSA Regulations on Comparable Employer Contributions; Labor Department Audits Wellness programs, Addresses Medicaid Coordination; and Retirement Roundup.

2008 Winter
Key Topics: Companies Look at Insourcing, "Offshoring" to Hold Down Healthcare Costs; The Times They are A-Changing for Form 5500 Filings; Benefits ER: Calculating Imputed Income for Domestic Partner Coverage; IRS Provides Guidance on Expenses Payable Under Health FSAs, Debit Cards and Transit Passes; Retirement Roundup; Snake-Bit: Courts Offer Up Interesting COBRA Decisions

2007 Fall
Key Topics: Presidental Candidates Address Health Reform, Planning for the New Secion 125 Rules, the State of the States: Health Reform Summary, From the Bench: Select Court Cases Affecting Benefits, Retirement Roundup, Benefits ER: HSA Meltdown

2007 Summer
Key Topics: Nontaxable benefits; Court rules employer not required to provide contraceptive coverage; Supplemental plan exception to HIPAA nondiscrimination; Benefits ER: Discriminatory retiree coverage

2007 Spring
Key Topics: Health Reform Train Keeps Rolling; National Provider Identifiers; Benefits ER

2006 Fall/2007 Winter
Key Topics: Extended Coverage for Dependent Children; Review of Select Federal Developments; Domestic Partners Meet HRAs; Benefits ER

2006 Summer
Key Topics: Supreme Court Upholds Subrogation Rights; Health Reform Train Stops In Vermont And Missouri; IRS Issues Proposed Regulations Affecting DCAP's;
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: What The DOL Looks For on Audit

2006 Spring
Key Topics: The Caissons Keep Rolling…and the Regulations Keep Coming; Age Discrimination: Everything Old is New Again; Revisiting the Roth 401(k); Benefits ER; Matching or Incentive HSA Contributions: Maybe not so simple after all

2006 Winter
Key Topics: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Update; Electronic Benefit Notices; Primer on Health Reimbursement Arrangements; Reporting "Grace Period" Payments from a DCAP

2005 Fall
Key Topics: Out of Control: The Tax Code's "Controlled Group" Rules Leave Many Plans Out of Compliance; Roth 401(k)s Debut; Non-Qualified Retirement Plans; Form 5500 Times and Reminders

2005 Summer
Key Topics: COB Trap for the Unwary; HIPAA--Final Portability Regulations; Association Health Plans; Mandated Coverage Initiatives