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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

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 continuation coverage: fast action required to comply with new COBRA premium assistance requirements

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 20 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (referred to in this Commentary as the "Stimulus Act") was signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009 (the "Enactment Date"

Important health coverage provisions in US Economic Stimulus Package require immediate action

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 23 2009

On January 17, 2009 U.S. President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the “Stimulus Package.”

Pleural plaques and asymptomatic asbestos disease the plot thickens

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 11 2009

Jack Straw, Secretary of State for Justice, announced on 22 July 2009 that the Government would be delaying its decision on whether to introduce legislation to reverse the House of Lords’ decision on pleural plaques in Rothwell 2007 and so allow pleural plaques to become a compensatable condition

European Court of Justice considers the validity of Flemish legislation limiting eligibility to a care insurance scheme

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • Belgium, European Union
  • -
  • April 10 2008

In Government of the French Community, and Walloon Government v Flemish Government Case C-21206, ECJ (Grand Chamber), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) determined that Flemish legislation limiting eligibility to a care insurance scheme was contrary to European provisions concerning the right to freedom of movement within the European Community (EC) in so far as the care insurance scheme included a residence requirement that excluded persons who worked in the Flemish region or in the bilingual Brussels-Capital, but who resided in another part of the national territory (ie the French or German speaking region

Genetic discrimination bill sails through the House

  • Faegre Baker Daniels
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2007

By a vote of 420-3, a bill to protect individuals from discrimination in health insurance and employment based on genetic information, the "Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act" (H.R. 493), passed the House overwhelmingly on April 25

Pending legislation seeks to limit health insurers’ use of genetic information

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2007

A bill that would prohibit the use of genetic information and genetic testing in underwriting with respect to health insurance and employment was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 25, 2007 by a vote of 420-3

House of Lords confirms pleural plaques do not amount to actionable damage

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 22 2008

Claimants appealed against a decision that pleural plaques caused by negligent exposure to asbestos, which were not in themselves damage that could give rise to a cause of action, did not become actionable damage when aggregated with the risk of future disease and consequent anxiety

A new discrimination law: the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act

  • Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 12 2008

It started when a railroad had certain employees submit a blood test