01.07.21
The long-awaited and hard-fought No Surprises Act was signed into law on December 27, 2020, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Division BB, Title I, Sec. 101–118).
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the Act), which became law on December 27, includes $900 billion in supplemental appropriations to help address economic hardships wrought by COVID-19.
Until late December, few if any Medicare policy changes were anticipated as part of a year-end healthcare package, barring extensions of funding for programs that otherwise would have expired.
Health insurance issuers and employment-based group health plans face new federal requirements to demonstrate their mental health parity compliance.
01.06.21
On January 5, 2021, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion, proposed by new Board Chair Supervisor Hilda Solis and newly elected Supervisor Holly Mitchell, that takes steps toward requiring certain frontline grocery and retail food employers in the County to pay an additional ...
01.05.21
As we prepare to put 2020 in the rearview mirror, many of us will not have fond memories of the year.
01.04.21
What can we really say about 2020?—a year more unique than any year we can remember.
12.30.20
With the impending installment of a new presidential administration, employers can expect a potential wave of newly-proposed, employment-related federal legislation.
12.28.20
On Sunday, December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the latest round of COVID-19 legislation, the 5,500-page Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
12.23.20
In its recent passage of the 2021 stimulus bill, Congress may have vanquished the last hopes of the plaintiffs’ bar seeking to require Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) lenders to pay agent fees for accountants in a wave of putative class action lawsuits.