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Kickin' COVID-19: Reopening Texas Summit - Doing Business Safely During COVID-19 and Other Pandemics 10/8/2020 2016 Benefits & Beyond: Navigating Employee Benefit Plans 4/5/2016 Health Plan Advice: Ethics, Technical & Practical Challenges 9/18/2015 The Hidden Traps In Same Sex Ruling 6/27/2015 New Document - sllHealthcare Breaches_ How to Respond.pdf 4/7/2015 2015 Federal Legislative, Regulatory & Enforcement Update: What HR & Benefit Leaders Should Expect & Do Now 1/13/2015 Nine In Ninety 9/9/2014 ABA Real Property, Trusts & Estates Section Liasion, Representative on ABA Joint Committee On Employee Benefits 9/1/2014 Post-Windsor Same-Sex Participant Guidance May Require Mid-Year Plan Amendments 5/24/2014 Foreign Transferees: Outbound, Inbound, Equity And Treaty Issues 3/13/2013 Trends And Challenges In Physician Compensation 1/15/2013 Stamer Speaks About Things Plan Committees Must Do Differently In 2012 At SWBA Meeting In November 11/15/2012 Brace For New Disability Discrimination Claims 10/11/2012 New Health Plan Partnership, Data Sharing With Federal Health Care Fraud Enforcers Promises Greater Federal Oversight of Providers & Health Plans 8/30/2012 Employers & Plan Fiduciaries Reminded To Confirm Credentials & Bonding For Internal Staff, Plan Fidiciaries & Vendors Dealing With Benefits 8/13/2012 Record $2.3 Million+ H-2A Backpay Order Plus Civil Money Penalty Reminds Businesses Employing Foreign Workers To Manage Compliance 8/10/2012 EBSA Updates Guidance On Fee Disclosure Requirements For 401(k) Plan Brokerage Window Arrangements 8/8/2012 Federal Mandate That Employer Health Plans Must Cover 100% Of Contraceptive, Other Women’s Health Services With No Cost Sharing Now Effective 8/6/2012 Use NIH & Other Free Government Resources To Help Round Out Wellness Programs 8/6/2012 96% Employers of 50+ Employees, 36% Employers of Smaller Employers Provide Health Coverage 8/4/2012 Where ERISA Intersects With Other Areas Of The Law 8/4/2012 12 Steps Every Employer With A Health Plan Should Do Now To Manage 2012-14 Health Plan Risks & Liabilities 8/1/2012 Congress Gives Defined Benefit Plan Sponsors Welcome Funding Relief, Raises PBGC Premiums & Makes Other Reforms 7/31/2012 Essential Health Benefit Definition Built On Expensive Mandated Benefit Plan Likely To Be Expensive For Employers, States & Individuals 7/20/2012 Leprino Foods To Pay $550K To Settle OFCCP Charge Pre-Hire Screening Test Illegally Discriminated 7/19/2012 Update Health Plans For Expanded MHPAEA & Health Care Reform Mental Health Mandates 7/15/2012 Stamer Speaks 11/15 About Things Plan Committees Must Do Differently In 2012 At SWBA Meeting 7/10/2012 Risks Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Face When Employee BEnefit Responsibilities Are Mishandled 7/9/2012 IRS To Offer Help For U.S. Citizens Overseas With Foreign Retirement Plans, Dual Citizenship Tax Issues 6/26/2012 OCR Hits Alaska Medicaid For $1.7M+ For HIPAA Security Breach 6/26/2012 Model Language May Aid Section 83(b) Elections Even As Executive & Other Special Compensation Carry Growing Liability Traps 6/26/2012 New EEOC State Discrimination Charge Data Helpful Employer Risk Assessment Tool Discrimination Exposures Grow 6/26/2012 IRS Changing Individual Taxpayer ID Number Application Requirements 6/22/2012 Obama’s Reaffirms Commitment Prosecute Disability Discrimination To Mark Omlstead Anniversary 6/22/2012 NLRB Moves To Promote Non-Union Employee Use of Collective Action Rights By Launching Webpage 6/18/2012 Insurer Group Health Inc. To Refund $500,00+ & Change Claims Practices To Settle NY AG Charges It Wrongfully Denied Coverage 6/18/2012 Making Wellness Work On A Shoestring Budget 5/28/2012 Tighten Defensibility of Criminal & Other Background Check Practices In Light of Labor Department Non-Discrimination Regulation & Enforcement Emphasis 5/25/2012 Western Mixers & Officers Ordered To Pay $1.2M+ For Improperly Using Benefit Plan Funds For Company Operations, Other ERISA Violations 5/23/2012 Review & Update Health Plan Mental Health Coverage As DOL Supplements Guidance On Health Plan Mental Health Parity Rules 5/23/2012 Plan Administrator Faces Civil & Criminal Prosecution For Allegedly Making Prohibited $3.2 Million Real Estate Investment 5/22/2012 Employee Plan Fee Disclosure Rules Clarified 5/22/2012 OIG: “Extremely High” Prescription Drug Retail Pharmacy Billings Warrant Tighter Medicare Part D Oversight & Controls 5/18/2012 HHS OIG Finds The New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Association of New York City, Inc., Health Benefits Fund Reported Unallowable Costs on 2009 Medicare Cost Report 5/18/2012 New Mental Health Parity Resources Released In Celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month 5/9/2012 ERISA Advisory Opinion Addresses If Connecticut Group Health Plan Plan Is “Government Plan” 5/4/2012 Comment On IRS Proposals On Determing Health Plan Minimum Value By June 11 4/26/2012 EEOC Sues Wendy’s Franchisee For Disability Discrimination 4/18/2012 Brokerage Firm To Pay $630,000+ To Benefit Plans To Settle DOL Charges It Wrongfully Steered Clients To Investments 4/18/2012 DC Court Enjoins Implementation of NLRB Poster Rule 4/17/2012 Latest $100,000 HIPAA Resolution Agreement Nails Physician Group, 4/17/2012 Health Plans Should Act Quickly To Prepare Affordable Care Act Required Summary of Benefits & Communications & Update Other Health Plan Communications 3/20/2012 Small Employers Should Evaluate Eligibility For Small Business Health Care Tax Credit 3/14/2012 Health Plan BCBST To Pay $1.5 Million In 1st OCR Enforcement Action Prompted By HITECH Breach Report 3/13/2012 March 21 New Deadline To Comment On Proposal To Extend Minimum Wage, Overtime Rules To In Home Care Workers 3/9/2012 NLRB Report Shows Rise In Unfair Labor Practice Complaints & Formal Proceedings 3/9/2012 Sullivan University System to Pay $483,000 in Back Wages Overtime Violations Stemming From Worker Misclassifications 3/8/2012 New DOL Final Rules Tighten Requirements For Employers To Hire Alien Workers Using H-2B Visas 2/21/2012 New IRS Worker Classification Settlement Program and its Risks 1/2012 OSHA $1Million Award Against AirTran Airways Highlights Retaliation Risks 1/18/2012 Severance and Other Termination Arrangements: Planning and Executing Defensible Goodbyes 1/17/2012 HHS Chides Trustmark Life Insurance Company For “Excessive” Health Premium Increases After Affordable Care Act Rate Audit 1/12/2012 Labor Department Final Rule Defines Recreation Vehicle For Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act 1/10/2012 Portion of Health Care Costs Paid By Government Programs Rose As Employer Provided & Other Private Health Care Coverage Declined In 2010 1/9/2012 Manufacturer’s Excessive I-9 Documentation Triggers Discrimination Liability 1/1/2012 Record-Breaking Countrywide Settlement Shows Discrimination Compliance Extends Beyond HR 12/2011 Employers Urged To Strengthen Worker Classification Defenses As Obama Administration Targets Employers Misclassifying Workers 12/27/2011 Employers Should Tighten Worker Classification Practices As Obama Administration Moves To Stamp Out Misclassification Abuses 12/26/2011 Medical Identity Theft/Fraud Convictions Highlight Need For Health Care Providers To Safeguard Health Information, Guard Against Fraud Schemes 11/27/2011 New Rule Offers Plans & Their Advisors New Options For Providing Investment Advice To 401(k) & Other Individual Account Plan Participants & Beneficiaries 11/25/2011 $20+ Million Settlement Shows Business Risk of Violating Military Service Member Or Veteran’s Federal Credit, Other Rights 11/14/2011 IRS Exempts Enrolled Retirement Plan Agents From PTIN Requirement 11/4/2011 Fact Sheet Final Regulation On Individual Account Plan Investtment Advice 10/25/2011 EBSA Final Rule On Investment Advice To Participants & Beneficiaries In Individual Account Plans 10/25/2011 OCR Settlements Show Health Care & Disabled Housing Providers Face Growing Disability Discrimination Risks 10/22/2011 Stamer Talks About Health Care Reform, ADA, FMLA & Military Leave Developments At 10/21 Joint ABA Tax and RPTE Section Meetings In Denver 10/21/2011 IRS Announces 2012 Cost of Living Increases For Employee Benefit Contributions & Benefits Limits 10/20/2011 Employers Considering Using New IRS Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program To Resolve Payroll Tax Risks Must Also Manage Other Legal Exposures 9/22/2011 Participant Notification Added To Required Procedures For Church Plan Determination Letter Requests 9/22/2011 Stamer Named Fellow In American College of Employee Benefits Counsel 9/2/2011 The Nuts and Bolts of Reporting and Disclosure Rules for Employee Benefit Plans 8/30/2011 New IRS Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program Signals Growing Worker Misclassification Audit & Enforcement Emphasis 8/21/2011 ABA TIPS Section Appoints Cynthia Marcotte Stamer Vice Chair of Employee Benefits General Committee 8/15/2011 Labor Department 2011 Stats Show Employer Health Coverage & Other Benefit Statistics 7/29/2011 Conviction Highlights Risks of Misleading Investors 7/20/2011 Gulf Coast Area TEGE Council Employee Benefits & Exempt Organizations Enforcement & Compliance Summer 2011 Meeting 7/11/2011 Gulf Coast Area TEGE Council Pre-Event Reception & Dinner 7/10/2011 Group Health Claims And Appeals: The Brave New World For Making, Administering, And Paying Health Claims 6/14/2011 Group Health and Disability Claims and Appeals: The Brave New World for Making, Administering, and Paying Claims Program 4/28/2011 DOL considers easing rules for electronic benefit communications 4/22/2011 Improving the Effectiveness of Compliance & Risk Management By Getting HR On The Compliance Team 4/11/2011 Labor Department Rules On Electronic Distribution of ERISA-Required Benefit Plan Notices White Paper 4/9/2011 Health Plan Embezzlement & Fraud: Prevention, Detection & Response Strategies for Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries 4/5/2011 Plan Sponsors. Their Owners & Management & Others Risk Personal Liability If Others Defraud Plans or Mismanage Employee Benefit Plan Responsibilities 4/5/2011 Company Executives, Plan Sponsors & Others May Face Personal Liability When Others Defraud Plans or Mismanage Employee Benefit Plan Responsibilities 4/4/2011 The Boomers are Coming, Is the System Prepared? 4/1/2011 “What Would the Retirement Benefits Delivery System Look Like if Employers Stopped Sponsoring Plans?” 3/31/2011 EEOC Finalizes Updates To Disability Regulations In Response to ADA Amendments Act 3/24/2011 EEOC Finalizes Updates To Disability Regulations In Response to ADA Amendments Act: Employers Should Manage Risks 3/24/2011 Woman's Power Hour For Executive Women's Network 3/17/2011 Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At Houston SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshop 3/4/2011 Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At Dallas SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshop 2/25/2011 Safeguarding Yourself From Liability For Another’s Employee Benefit Plan Embezzlement Or Other Misconduct 2/25/2011 Attorney Cynthia Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshops Flyer 2/11/2011 Attorney Cynthia Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshops 2/4/2011 Proposed New DOL Defined Benefit Plan Annual Funding Notice Rule 11/19/2010 Proposed New Defined Benefit Plan Annual Funding Notice Rule Reminder of Need to Carefully Manage DB Plan Responsibilities 11/18/2010 DOL Proposes To Expand Investment Related Services Giving Rise to ERISA 10/21/2010 Congress & Labor Department Considering Tightening Retirement Plan Regulations 7/28/2010 Review Of Worker Classifications Needed As Classification Scrutiny Rises 7/28/2010 Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 7/22/2010 Labor Department FMLA Guidance Adopts Broad Interpretation,Employer Care Needed Determining Who Qualifies As Child 7/19/2010 Employers Urged To Review & Strengthen Defensibility of Existing Worker Classification Practices In Light of Rising Congressional & Regulatory Scrutiny 6/30/2010 Worker Classification & Alternative Workforce: Employee Plans & Employment Tax Challenges 6/29/2010 TPA & Other Plan Services Agreements - Managing Risks & Improving Effectiveness 6/16/2010 2010 Health Plan Checkup 5/13/2010 New Labor Department Rule Establishes 7 Day Deadline To Deliver 2/11/2010 Inapplicability of HIPAA Privacy To Disability Insurer Not License To Impose Unreasonable Proof Of Loss Requirements 2/8/2010 Legal Alert: Tough times are no excuse for ERISA shortcuts 2/5/2010 Newly Extended COBRA Subsidy Rules Require Employers, Administrators Send Required Notices & Update Health Plan Documents & Procedures Quickly 12/30/2009 Distressed Businesses & Their Business Leaders Face Liability Risks When Employee Benefit Obligations Mishandled.doc 12/30/2009 Employee Benefit Plan Sponsors & Fiduciaries Urged To Review Bonding, Credentials of Staff & Service Providers Under ERISA 12/2009 Mishandling Employee Benefit Obligations Creates Liabilities For Distressed Businesses & Their Business Leaders 12/2009 Department Of Labor Announces Plans To Expand Employee Benefits, Wage & Hour, OSHA & Other Reporting & Disclosure Requirements & To Implement Other New Employee Benefit Regula 12/2009 Stamer Moderates June 25 ABA Teleconference On When Benefits Lawyers and Other Service Providers Be Sued for Malpractice for Services to ERISA Plans 6/25/2009 Democrats Racing To Enact Their Version of Comprehensive Health Reform 6/10/2009 Recession Readying Your Workforce & Employee Benefit Plans 9/10/2008 ERISA Claims & Appeals Boot Camp 8/1/2008 Supreme Court's June 19 Decision About The Standard Of Review Applicable To ERISA Cases 7/2008 Supreme Court Ruling Provides Guidance For Improving Defensibility Of ERISA Claims Decisions 6/26/2008 Supreme Court: ERISA Participants Can Sue Fiduciaries For Individual Damages 6/2008 Supreme Court Provides Guidance About When Conflict of Interest Justifies Closer Scrutiny of Employee Benefit Plan Claims Decisions 6/2008 Recession Readying Your Workforce To Meet New Business Challenges & Opportunities 5/30/2008 New Revisions to FMLA 4/2008 Supreme Court Rules Participants & Beneficiaries Can Sue Fiduciaries Under ERISA Section 502(a) To Recover 401(k) & Other Defined Contribution Account Losses 4/2008 Supreme Court Rules Participants & Beneficiaries Can Sue Fiduciaries Under ERISA § 502(a)(2) To Recover 401(k) & Other Defined Contribution Account Losses 2/20/2008 Update On Employment Rights Of Employees In The Military & Their Family 2/2008 New Federal Law Extending Federal Family Leave Rights To Employees With Family Member Called To Active Duty Or Caring For Family Member Injured 1/29/2008 IRS and Department of Labor Issue Automatic Enrollment and Investment Guidance 12/2007 Executives and Others Face Tough Tax Liability Unless Deferred Compensation Arrangements Are Timely Updated For New Internal Revenue Code Section 409A Compliance 12/2007 Agencies Release 2007 Form 5500 Annual Report 12/2007 IRS & DOL Issue Automatic Enrollment & Investment Guidance 11/15/2007 Retirement Plan Update Form 5500 Only 11/15/2007 Retirement Plan Update Auto Enrollment Only 11/15/2007 Deferred Compensation 409 A Update 11/15/2007 Health Benefit Update 2007 Form 5500 Release 11/15/2007 Executives, Lenders & Others Risk Personal Liability If Employee Benefits Mismanaged 6/13/2007 Beck v. Pace 6/2007 Web Cybercrime Powerpoint Presentation Handout 5/2007 Operationalizing Circular 230 Compliance: A Real World Perspective 5/2007 DOL Publishes Interim Guidance On Changes To ERISA 12/21/2006 Labor Department, IRS & PBGC Propose Pension Protection Act Revisions to 2008 Form 5500 Report 12/6/2006 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS AND OTHER COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS GROUP 10/2006 Medical Privacy - Erisa Litigation - Chapter 35 8/2006 Spitzer brought bad practices to light; a good thing, panelists say 3/2006 SEC Proposes Changes to Sox Disclosure About Compensation and Related Matters 2/2006 Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)- U.S. Department of Labor 2006 U.S. Department of Labor -- Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) 2006 Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (ABA) 2006 American Bar Association - Section of Taxation(ABA) 2006 Employee Benefits Security Administration Main Page 2006 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) 2006 Claims Processing Under the New World Order 2006 Operationalizing Circular 230 Compliance: A Real World Perspective 11/2005 Operationalizing Circular 230 Compliance: A Real World Perspective 11/2005 HR's Role in Personal Identity Theft and Cybercrime Prevention 10/2005 Broker & Insurers Identity Theft & Privacy Perils 10/2005 New Federal Requirements For Disposal of Personal Records and Information 7/1/2005 2004 Joint Fall CLE Meeting 9/30/2004 Cross Border Workforce Development Challenges & Opportunties 8th Annual Border Issues Conference 3/2004 Employee Communications-Latest Buzz on Requirements, Risks and Opportunities Related to the New Health Plan Rules 9/2002 911 An Emergency Preparedness Plan For Managing Your People Through a Catastrophe or Crisis 6/2002 Fiduciary Responsibility During Turbulent Times 5/2002 WEBbits - November 2001 11/2001 “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N Roll: A Survival Toolkit for When Private Lives Affect Performance” 9/2001 Outsourcing, Employee Leasing and Other Alternate Staffing Arrangements 11/1999 Selected Issues Regarding Health And Welfare Plans For Texas Governmental Employers 9/1999 Human Resources Management During Mergers, Acquisitions, Reductions in Force and Other Significant Business Changes 5/1999 Drafting And Negotiating Agreements With Executives 5/1999 Avoiding The Liability Noose Between Human Resources and ERISA 1999 Workplace Privacy Issues 1999 Bankruptcy and Employee Benefit Issues 1999 Employee Benefit Communications 1999 Employee Benefits and Other Human Resources Issues Affecting Health Care Transactions 1999 Introduction to Bankruptcy A Basic Overview 1999 Leased Employees and other Contingent Workforce Issues 1999 Mergers, Acquisitions, & Integration Solving The People Puzzle 1999 Selected Ethical Issues Affecting Corporate Counsel Involved in Employee Benefit Matters 1999 What To Do When An Employee's Private Life Becomes Your Business 1999 When Your Employee's Private Life Becomes Your Business 1999 Employee Benefit Communications 1999 Fiduciary Responsibility In A Nutshell 1999 Selected Thoughts About Drafting, Negotiating & Enforcing Executive Employee Agreements 1999 Employee Benefits And Other Human Resource Issues Affecting Health Care Transactions 11/1998 WHAT’ S THE BUZZ Breaking News Affecting Employee Benefits 5/1998 RE-ENGINEERING YOUR DEFLECTOR SHIELDS: Emerging Benefit and Health Issues 2/1997 A Proactive Approach To Hr And Benefits Planning For Mergers And Acquisitions 2/1997 |
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