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Dec 20, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jennifer Rigterink
The telehealth services safe harbor for high deductible health plans (“HDHPs”) will expire for plan years starting on or after January 1, 2025, absent Congress passing legislation extending or making the safe harbor permanent.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jennifer Rigterink
The U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services proposed regulations last month that would expand group health plans' required coverage of preventive services and contraceptives.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Jennifer Rigterink
Last week, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services finalized regulations implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA). Although the final regulations step back from certain burdensome aspects of the proposed rules (which we blogged about here), compliance with the final rules will require action from virtually all group health plans that cover mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits before the end of the year.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Jennifer Rigterink |Jurate Schwartz
To attract talent by offering expanded family building and reproductive care benefits, a growing number of employers are looking to add benefits tailored for employees who are experiencing menopause and perimenopause (the time leading up to menopause). Here are the key benefits and employment questions that employers have asked that relate to menopause coverage. Would menopause benefits be subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act? Probably.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Jennifer Rigterink
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used as part of a two-drug protocol to induce abortion. The Court ruled that the providers seeking to overturn the FDA approval did not have standing, because the providers were not directly impacted by the FDA’s actions.
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May 2, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Adam Scoll |Jennifer Rigterink
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor ("DOL")
issued final rules which expand what it means to
provide fiduciary "investment advice" under the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
("ERISA") and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). Though the final rules
broaden the definition of "investment advice," the
circumstances under which advice will be covered are narrower than
in the proposed rules released last year.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jennifer Rigterink |Adam Scoll
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued final rules which expand what it means to provide fiduciary “investment advice” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Though the final rules broaden the definition of “investment advice,” the circumstances under which advice will be covered are narrower than in the proposed rules released last year.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Adam Scoll |Jennifer Rigterink
Jennifer Rigterink is senior counsel in the Labor Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Jennifer focuses on a diverse array of tax and ERISA issues impacting employee benefits. Her wide-ranging practice encompasses qualified retirement plans and non-qualified arrangements, health and welfare benefits, and fringe benefit programs.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Ira G. Bogner |Adam Scoll |Jennifer Rigterink
On April 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (the
"DOL") published in the federal register a final amendment to Prohibited Transaction
Class Exemption 84-14 (the "QPAM Exemption") that makes
considerable changes to the exemption's conditions (the
"Final Amendment").
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Ira G. Bogner |Jennifer Rigterink |Adam Scoll
April 17, 2024 Ira Bogner, Jennifer Rigterink, Adam Scoll Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) published in the federal register a final amendment to Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 84-14 (the “QPAM Exemption”) that makes considerable changes to the exemption’s conditions (the “Final...
