by admin | Jul 25, 2014 | DOJ
The Attorney General today signed the Department's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to revise the department's Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) title III regulation to require movie theaters to exhibit movies with closed movie captioning and...
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today predicted that consumers will receive $330 million in health insurance premium refunds this year because insurers will exceed profits and administrative expenses allowed under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
Two signature-gathering efforts to place a referendum on the ballot to eliminate Seattle's mandated new $15-an-hour minimum wage have failed. Needing 16,510 voters' signatures to make the ballot, an effort by business group Forward Seattle qualified 14,818...
by admin | Jul 23, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
The Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a sting operation on Obamacare during the health insurance sign-up period that ended March 31 and announced that 11 of 12 fake applicants are still to this day covered with subsidies. "The federal...
by admin | Jul 22, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, DOL, Employee Benefits Administration, HHS
The Department of Labor (DOL) is requiring closely held companies that drop contraceptive services from their health plans to inform their employees in writing within 60 days of the decision. The vehicle for doing this is the Summary Plan Description (SPD) for the...