We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo






  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 2,282

Department of Labor announces that sample notices for extended COBRA subsidy will be forthcoming

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2010

As you will recall from my earlier post, Congress and the President extended the COBRA subsidy, originally a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (the stimulus bill), to individuals involuntary terminated through February 28, 2010 (from December 31, 2009) and the length of the subsidy to 15 months (from 9 months

SCHIP Bill passed again by House

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2009

On January 14, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (H.R. 2) (the “Act”) by a vote of 289-139

Group health plans increasingly embrace foreign health care

  • Locke Lord LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 31 2009

As the debate on cost savings in health reform rages on in Washington, D.C. and across the nation in Town Hall meetings, employer (group) health plans, many now engaging in an annual benefit review for the forthcoming calendar year, are increasingly including “medical tourism” provisions designed to decrease costs of expensive surgeries for covered participants

President's health insurance proposal receives chilly Democratic response

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 2 2007

In his Jan. 23 State of the Union Address, President Bush outlined a new initiative to treat health insurance similar to the home mortgage interest deduction

Florida appellate court recognizes new statutory bad faith cause of action in medical malpractice claims

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2007

A Florida appellate court has recognized a new statutory bad faith cause of action in medical malpractice claims

Massachusetts attorney general investigates health insurer and provider

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2009

The Boston Globe has reported that the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Martha Coakley, has launched an investigation into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Partners HealthCare

Missouri court of appeals finds no right of equitable contribution based on other insurance clauses

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2009

The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District recently held that a nurse's professional liability insurer was not liable for contribution to her employer's professional liability insurer after the latter settled a wrongful death claim involving the nurse

EEOC suggests some required health risk assessments violate ADA

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2009

Employers who require their employees to participate in a health risk assessment in order to be eligible for health insurance coverage may be unknowingly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA

Group health plan sponsors now required to comply with CHIPRA

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2009

Employers that sponsor group health plans may need to update those plans to comply with the new requirements of the federal Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009 ("CHIPRA"

Rockefeller is watching

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2009

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has introduced a bill to regulate various health insurer underwriting practices

Current Search

Suggested Facets

Author

Firm Name

Jurisdiction

Workarea

© Copyright 2006-2013 Globe Business Publishing Ltd | Cookies | Disclaimer | Privacy policy