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
Third-Party Beneficiaries in Missouri: An Overview
Missouri law is clear that to be considered a third-party beneficiary under a contract, the contract must clearly express an intent to benefit that party or an identifiable class to which the party belongs. Milligan v. Chesterfield Vill. GP, LLC, 239 S.W.3d 613, 622...
Duties During and Following Employment: What Rights and Duties Are There?
Things were looking pretty good for your sandwich shop chain. You had expanded into a new market, set up some catering contracts and hired a good manager for your new shop. You were even thinking about taking a little time off for a trip to the Caribbean to work on...
Deficiency Judgments After Foreclosure a Real Possibility in Missouri
Contrary to what some websites state, Missouri permits lawsuits to recover deficiencies between the amounts due under a note secured by a deed of trust and amounts bid in at foreclosure. Alarmingly, recent newspaper and online articles are suggesting that the holders...
Actions Indicating Desire to Keep Job Support Involuntary Discharge Over Voluntary Relinquishment
On October 4, 2011, the Missouri Court of Appeals reversed another decision by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“Commission”) denying unemployment benefits to a claimant who had been involuntarily discharged from her employment. In Harris v. Div. of...
