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Coronavirus Impact: Business Risk and Insurance for Healthcare Providers

For the healthcare industry, insurance and "what's covered," which seemed clear at the onset of this pandemic, are no longer clear.

Employment Practices Liability: Preparing for COVID-19 Employment Claims

Due to COVID-19 employers should anticipate a wave of employment-related claims and take proactive measures now in order to mitigate their company’s potential Employment Practices Liability (EPL) exposure.

Compliance Alert: Carrier Premium Credits and ERISA Fiduciary Obligations

Utilization of group medical and dental insurance benefits is down so some carriers notified employers that they will be issued premium credits. This Compliance Alert offers background on these issues as well has how employers should treat these premium credits.

A New Workplace Hazard: Heat Illness Due to Coronavirus PPE and Regulations

As companies reopen, businesses will face complicated consequences of the federal and local standards for minimizing the coronavirus. Some employees may find wearing masks difficult as summer temperatures rise.

Eased Coronavirus Restrictions: HR Strategies and Legal Advice for Reopening Your Workplace

To answer many of the HR and legal questions related to re-opening your business, we asked four of our experts at Woodruff Sawyer for their advice in our recent webinar, on topics including compliance and issues of legality.

Compliance Alert: IRS Relaxes Election Change, Other Rules for Cafeteria Plans and FSAs

The IRS has provided guidance and relief for employees, which, among other things, extend the claims period for health flexible spending arrangements (health FSAs) and dependent care assistance programs (DCAPs) and allow employees to make mid-year changes.

An Employer’s Return to Work Toolkit: The “New Normal” After COVID-19

The impact of COVID-19 on workplaces has been far-reaching. Employers need to prepare for the "new normal" once such orders are lifted and the country begins to reopen. We at Woodruff Sawyer have put together this toolkit that will help employers build their own action plan for employees to return to work.

Mostly Dead but Slightly Alive: M&A Deals of 2020

COVID-19 has claimed many M&A deals. In this post previously published in the American Bar Association Business Law Section, read about recent failed M&A deals as well as learn about MAE carveouts.

Compliance Alert: Agencies Extend Deadline to Pay COBRA Premiums, Extend Certain Other ERISA and Internal Revenue Code Deadlines Due to COVID-19

On April 28, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued much needed guidance and relief for employers. Learn more about the new requirements for employers, deadline changes, and specifics about the reliefs.

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