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Group Health Coverage

How to Handle Group Health Coverage for Laid-off, Furloughed Staff

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, many employers have had to lay off or furlough staff due to a tremendous drop-off in business. Besides the loss of income they face, these workers will often also lose their employer-sponsored health insurance. With this in mind, many employers have been wondering if they can permit coverage to

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8 Questions You Should be Asking Your Benefits Advisor… Continued

Are you paying your benefits advisor for activity or for results? Are you paying them to administer your plan or to control your costs? There are eight questions you can ask to find out. In the previous article, I shared with you the first four questions. Here are the next four.   5.  What do you do

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Some Insurers Step Up Group Health Plan Assistance

Some health insurers are helping business workers in group plans maintain employee benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey has found.  Social distancing and stay-at-home orders have put the hurt on hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country, which has forced them to reduce employees’ hours, furlough them or lay them off. Besides

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Fiduciary Duty

What are my Fiduciary Responsibilities as a Self-Funded Employer?

Many midsize employers believe that self insurance is full of rules and redtape that fully insured plans don’t have. However, that’snot necessarily the case. Compliance is integral to self insurance and there are several items that you are responsible for as a self-funded employer, including:• ERISA fiduciary responsibilities,• Non-discrimination rules,• Reporting and disclosure,• Requirements notices,•

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Testing Workers for COVID-19 Raises Privacy, Discrimination Issues

Employers whose businesses continue to operate are obviously concerned about the coronavirus spreading through their worksites, so many have started testing their workers. Recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance authorized employers to conduct COVID-19 testing and check temperatures of employees. But doing so could expose a business to a number of employee legal actions

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