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Company settles in first-ever state HIPAA privacy suit

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 17 2010

HealthNet of Connecticut, Inc. agreed to pay $250,000 to resolve a HIPAA privacy lawsuit by the State of Connecticut

Ninth Circuit disallows a health plan's lien against attorney-held settlement funds

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2011

A divided Ninth Circuit three-judge panel held that a plan was not entitled to equitable enforcement of the plan's subrogation right to reimbursement from a plan beneficiary's third-party injury settlement funds

Court rules voluntary appeals not subject to full and fair review

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2011

In DaCosta v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, a district court dismissed the claimants' argument that voluntary appeals were subject to full and fair review

Supreme Court agrees to review Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's individual mandate

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 29 2011

The Supreme Court of the United States announced on November 14, 2011 that it would hear arguments on the constitutionality of the individual insurance mandate provision (requiring individuals to buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a tax penalty) under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in HHS v. Florida

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2012

On Monday, March 26, 2012, oral arguments began before the United States Supreme Court in HHS v. Florida, the case challenging health care reform

United States Supreme Court upholds PPACA

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2012

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) issued its long awaited decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the Act), upholding the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Act as a valid exercise of Congress's power under the Taxing Clause and limiting the Medicaid expansion by striking, as an unconstitutional exercise of Congress's power under the Spending Clause, the provision of the Act that authorizes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary (the Secretary) to withdraw existing Medicaid funds from States that fail to implement the expanded Medicaid coverage requirements in the Act

September 2012 employee benefits update

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2012

All group health plans that offer prescription drug coverage to Medicare-eligible employees (under either an active plan or retiree plan) must provide an annual creditable coverage disclosure notice to Medicare-eligible participants and dependents no later than October 15, 2012

Severance benefits may not be subject to FICA taxes: you may need to file a protective refund claim soon

  • Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren SC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

In United States v. Quality Stores, 693 F.3d 605 (6th Cir. 2012), the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that certain severance amounts paid