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New EEOC rule allows employers to offset retiree benefits with Medicare or comparable state benefits

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 2 2008

Employers who provide retiree health benefits are allowed to coordinate and offset those benefits with Medicare or comparable state health benefits without violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”

Sheppard Mullin wins major victory in challenge to 12-hour shift pay practices

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2008

On December 5, 2007, the United States District Court, Central District of California, granted Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP's Motion for Summary Judgment filed on behalf of Defendant Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center ("PVHMC") in one of the most significant wage and hour class action lawsuits currently pending before any federal or California state court

New EEOC regulation exempts from ADEA coverage retiree health plans that coordinate with Medicare benefits

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2008

On December 26, 2007, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a new regulation permitting employers to maintain or adopt retiree health plans that reduce and otherwise coordinate their coverage with Medicare without violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA

EEOC permits coordination of retiree health benefits with Medicare; IRS provides guidance relevant to dependent health care

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2008

After nearly a decade of litigation and more than four years of study of a rule proposal, the EEOC on December 26, 2007 published a final regulation permitting the coordination of employer-provided retiree health benefits with Medicare and comparable state programs

EEOC's new retiree health rule

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2008

On December 26, 2007 the EEOC published a rule that permits employers to reduce benefits for retirees once they become eligible for Medicare

Evidence given at General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel attracts absolute witness immunity

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 16 2008

It was held by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in the case of Ahari v Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals NHS Trust that evidence given to the General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel (GMC Panel) attracts the protection of absolute witness immunity and therefore cannot be an act of discrimination

IRS issues HSA and HRA rollover guidance transition relief through March 15, 2007

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2007

In our December 2006 Legal Alert, we described the passage of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (the “Act”), which significantly enhanced the features of Health Savings Accounts (“HSAs”

Case managers must be paid overtime, DOL says

  • Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2007

According to a recent U.S. Department of Labor Opinion Letter, Case Managers employed by a health care service provider for individuals with disabilities must be paid overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act

Health care information faces two critical issues

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2008

Two key issues dominate the health care privacy agenda for 2008(1) the ongoing debate about electronic medical records and health information technology and (2) employer efforts to build effective wellness programs as a means of reducing employee health care costs

Physician restrictive covenants upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court

  • Vedder Price PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2007

In a victory for Vedder Price clients St. John Heart Clinic, S.C. of Chicago and its founder, Dr. John Monteverde, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the enforceability of physician restrictive covenants

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