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Text Messaging in the Workplace – Think Before You Send Text messaging has changed the way healthcare providers communicate with one another in the workplace. Most providers carry smartphones or tablets with them throughout the day, and many use these devices to send and receive patient data through encrypted text […]

Many of the deadlines that normally apply to employer-sponsored group health plans and other types of welfare benefit plans have effectively been suspended as a result of a newly issued regulation from the Department of Labor (“DOL”) and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). To read this Alert in PDF format, click […]

By Krystle Dalke To view and download this Alert as a pdf, click here.  We recently published an alert discussing the Paycheck Protection Program (the “Program”) provided in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security or “CARES Act”.  Additionally, businesses and private non-profit organizations can also apply for loans and […]

When a new law is enacted, it normally takes months and sometimes years before regulations are issued.  But that is not the case with the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “Act”). On April 1, scarcely two weeks after the Act was enacted, and on the very day the Act […]

On Friday, March 27, 2020, the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, commonly known as the CARES Act.  Although the CARES Act is a complicated law with a dizzying array of provisions, the focus of this Alert is strictly on those parts that affect eligible retirement […]

CRISIS CREATES OPPORTUNITY: The Coronavirus’s Perfect Estate Planning Storm To read this alert as a pdf, click here. First know that we are praying for you, your family and your community in this challenging time. This is a frightening time not only for your health, but also for your economic […]

By Laura Fent, with contributions by Scott Pohl, Scott MacBeth, Chris Arellano, and Krystle Dalke To view and download this Alert as a pdf, click here.  Last updated May 14, 2020 One of the most helpful set of provisions to small businesses in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security […]

KANSAS ESTABLISHES “STAY HOME” ORDER – EFFECTIVE MARCH 30, 2020 On March 28, 2020, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly issued Executive Order No. 20-16 to be effective March 30, 2020.  The order notes that several Kansas counties have already issued differing “stay home” orders and seeks to “create uniformity in the […]

We are still waiting on regulations from the Department of Labor (“DOL”) for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the “Act”), which requires most employers to provide paid leave due to COVID-19 issues. However, over the past few days, the DOL has issued several important pieces of guidance that you […]

With more and more employers having to cut employee hours or furlough employees in one form or another due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it is vitally important that employers review the terms of their employee welfare benefit plans.  This is true for group health plans and non-group health plans […]