Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or colloquially as “Obamacare,” was signed into law in March of 2010 with the goal of increasing the quality and affordability of health insurance for millions of Americans.
While the Act’s employer shared responsibility payments will not apply until 2015, and in some cases, not until 2016, there are provisions and safe harbors to consider and decisions that can be made now that may help businesses, employees and a business’s bottom line. Further, there are many unintended consequences arising out of the ACA that business owners, both large and small, need to consider when administering health care arrangements.
We are carefully following the developments associated with the roll-out of ACA and are providing counsel to business owners and other professionals, helping them to address compliance issues, evaluate exposure to penalties and other tax issues as well as planning strategically for the future.
Affordable Care Act Articles
BYOD Is The New BYOB
Glass shards sprinkle across the hotel parking lot as a thief smashes the passenger window. A gloved hand scours underneath the seat and brushes the familiar smooth surface that can only mean another laptop. The end of the sales convention’s happy hour soon reveals...
City of Hot Springs in Hot Water According to Jury in FMLA Trial
A jury found that a city employee who was not rehired after his use of leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations presented sufficient evidence of a retaliatory motive, awarding him $56,000 for lost compensation and $25,000 for emotional distress. The...
Legal Tightrope: Finding the Balance Between Competing Interests of Non-Compete Agreements
The Missouri Court of Appeals once again faced issues of whether an employer, a supplier of bags used to store and transport dry bulk goods, could enforce a non-compete agreement action against its former employee who resigned from his position as a salesperson. The...
Is the “Men in Black” Neuralyzer Handy? | Confidentiality and Inevitable Disclosure
If only we could easily forget those things that we want to forget. Sort of like utilizing the neuralyzer Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and Agent J (Will Smith) used in "Men in Black" to erase memories. But we can't, and in fact, the law generally doesn’t want you to....
