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New Changes Made to HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Health and Human Services has issued final regulations that address recent legislative changes to the HIPAA privacy and date security rules. Compliance by employers will be required by Sept. 23, according to a press release.
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Worker's Inability to Speak English Appropriately Considered in Disability Ruling: Court
The case of Merivic Inc. and Zurich North America v. Enrique Gutierrez involved a workers' comp claimant who had a ninth-grade education and a 'limited working knowledge' of English despite having lived in the United States for 34 years, according to the opinion.
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House Panel OKs Bill to Ease FSA ‘Use-It-or-Lose-It' Rule
The bill approved by the House panel would eliminate over-the-counter restrictions in the health care reform law.
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Massive Master Complaint Filed Against NFL Over Concussion-Related Injuries
The 86-page document, filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, seeks financial compensation, injunctive relief and medical monitoring for former NFL players who claim the league misled them about the dangers of concussions.
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House to Vote on Bill to Repeal Health Care Reform Law
The Senate did not take up the repeal bill and it is unlikely that the Senate, where Democrats are in the majority, would do so this time.
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Former Wells Fargo Employee Says Company Fired Him Over Daughter's Cancer Costs
According to a lawsuit filed Aug. 2 in a Florida Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Palm Beach, Wells Fargo fired Yovany Gonzalez in August 2010—three days before his daughter Mackenzie was scheduled for surgery to remove a cancerous tumor—based on allegations that he had falsified his time ...
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Paul Ryan a Longtime Supporter of Health Savings Accounts
In 2006, Rep. Ryan, along with Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, now the House Majority Leader, introduced legislation that boosted the appeal of health savings accounts.
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Study: Obesity Affects Duration of Workers' Compensation Benefits
The study's findings on the effect of obesity on indemnity duration are close to those reported in a 2007 Duke University Medical School study that found that obese workers file more claims, have higher medical costs, and miss more days due to job-related injuries than do their nonobese ...
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HR Leaders Scrambling After Supreme Court's Health Care Reform Ruling
From the individual mandate provision to 'pay or play' rule, companies find it's time to deal with the bottom line.
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Retailers and Hospitality Industry Employers Face Big Health Care Reform Law Related Cost Increases in 2014
Forty-six percent of employers in the retail and hospitality industries and 40 percent of employers in the health care services industry expect health care cost increases of at least 3 percent due to health care reform law requirements.
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Willis Makes Additions to Health Care Reform Impact Analysis Calculator
The proprietary tool allows companies to examine health plan possibilities within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
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Contraceptive Coverage Legal Battle Looms for Missouri
Missouri lawmakers on Sept. 12 overrode Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of legislation that would allow employers and insurers to deny contraceptive coverage, setting the stage for yet another legal battle over contraceptive coverage.
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Supreme Court to Hear Title VII, Class-Action Cases in 2012-13 Term
As Littler Mendelson's Garry Mathiason says, 'There are always some surprises from the Supreme Court.'
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Health Care Reform Law Ruling Likely Complicated: WorldatWork Executive
If the high court were to strike down the individual mandate that requires most U.S. residents to enroll in a qualified health care plan, Cara Woodson Welch, Washington-based vice president of policy and public affairs, says it's likely that Congress would draft legislation to uphold pieces of the
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Employee's Off-Duty Car-Crash Injuries Compensable: Court
The Kentucky Supreme Court said Adan Mandujano's car accident was compensable because he was performing the 'necessary and inevitable' act of returning from a trip that Gaines-Gentry and Eaton had requested him to take.
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Q&A With Jay Krueger: Evaluating Medical Marijuana Policies
Jay Krueger is chief strategy and client services officer at PMSI Inc., providing overall strategic direction for the Tampa, Florida-based provider of pharmacy benefit management services, medical equipment, home health care and case settlement services. In a recent interview with Workforce ...
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Benefit Execs Say Supreme Court Will Strike Down Individual Mandate
Some 66 percent of the respondents' predictions about the fate of the mandate reflect what they heard the justices say during oral arguments, says one expert.
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act Violated When School Fires Teacher for Premarital Pregnancy
According to the May 16 ruling in Jarretta P. Hamilton vs. Southland Christian School Inc., Hamilton, who began teaching at the St. Cloud, Florida-based school in January 2008, conceived a child with her then-fianc in January 2009. The couple got married the next month.
