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COBRA
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GT L&E Blog
COBRA Election and Enrollment Deadlines Extended During COVID-19 ‘Outbreak Period’
On May 4, 2020, in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of the Treasury, and the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Department…
Employer Law Report
Time to review COBRA compliance
COBRA compliance is an area that, for many employers, is on auto-pilot. Many employers rely on outside consultants to administer COBRA and need not put much focus on COBRA time…
Texas Labor Law Blog
Employer’s Guide to COBRA
Cobra. No, not that Cobra. Not that one either. The employment law one that sounds like it has absolutely nothing to do with employment law. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation…
Health Law Insider
Important Deadlines Delayed for Health and Welfare Plans due to COVID-19 Emergency: Impacts for Employer Plan Sponsors, Administrators, and Insurers
By Bethany Bacci, Abbey Hendricks
The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a notification of relief, effective immediately, that…
Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
MANDATORY EXTENSION OF COBRA, CLAIMS PROCEDURE AND OTHER TIME FRAMES
By Renee Lieux
On April 30, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor extended certain time frames for special enrollment in a health plan, COBRA coverage, claims procedures, and external…
Dickinson Law News
Feds Turn Back Time: Notification of Relief from Certain COBRA and HIPAA Deadlines and Timeframes Due to COVID-19
By rsamson@dickinsonlaw.com Dickinson Mackaman Tyler Hagen P.C.
On May 4, 2020, the Department of the Treasury/IRS and the Department of Labor/Employee Benefits Security Administration jointly published a notification in the Federal Register that temporarily stops the clock…
Benefits Law Advisor
New Model COBRA Notices and Emergency Extensions to COBRA Deadlines Require Employers to Take Action
By Brian M. Johnston, Keith A. Dropkin
The Department of Labor (DOL) and other federal regulators released updates and clarifications related to employee benefits, including updates to model COBRA notices and an extension of certain statutory deadlines…
COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor
New Model COBRA Notices and Emergency Extensions to COBRA Deadlines Require Employers to Take Action
By Brian M. Johnston, Keith A. Dropkin
The Department of Labor (DOL) and other federal regulators released updates and clarifications related to employee benefits, including updates to model COBRA notices and an extension of certain statutory deadlines…
Louisiana Law Blog
COBRA and Coronavirus
By Brian Carnie, Chelsea Caswell, Edward Hardin, Scott Huffstetler, Michael Lowe, Zoë Vermeulen, David Whitaker
Employees who experience a “COBRA-qualifying event” and would otherwise lose group health coverage are entitled to elect to continue their group health coverage under federal law - COBRA. For those…
Inside Jobs
Benefit Plan Record Retention – A Cautionary Tale from Louisiana
Consider a situation in which a former employee alleges that he or she did not receive a COBRA election notice. That’s the notice that must be provided to group health…