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	<description>The personal subrogation blog of Attorney Adam V. Russo.</description>
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		<title>ERISA-like Features Do Not Give Self-Insured County Plan Right to Deferential Review, Court Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits         January 2012 &#124; Vol. 19, No. 4  Most self-insured governmental plans adopt ERISA principles in governing trusts, and use ERISA-style plan documents and summary plan descriptions (SPDs). However, just because they look to ERISA for guidance when crafting programs, they would be mistaken to assume they have ERISA-style rights.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four-Page Mini-SPD: Coming to a Plan Near You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits        October 2011 &#124; Vol. 19, No. 1  The Four-Page Mini-SPD:  Coming to a Plan Near You, By Adam V. Russo, Esq. &#38; Ron E. Peck, Esq.  New proposed rules explaining the health reform law explain how employers and insurers must provide Summaries of Benefits and Coverage (SBCs), which every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Plan Summary of Benefits and Coverage: Still No Final Model, But Substantial Excise Taxes Are Looming Anyway</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/health-care-plan-summary-of-benefits-and-coverage-still-no-final-model-but-substantial-excise-taxes-are-looming-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our prior blog, we explained that under principles of triage, employers may need to focus on the current annual enrollment and wait to take care of the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (“SBC”). Although the SBC does not need immediate attention, we caution employers not to wait too long or take the SBC responsibilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Subrogation Efforts Run Afoul of Medical Privacy Laws?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[PHI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coordination of Benefits Employee Benefits Series                            THOMPSON                       July 2011 &#124; VOL. 19, No.3 By Jack B. Helitzer, Esq.                  This issue of the Newsletter features a unique legal strategy used by a participant’s attorney who claimed that the auto liability insurer and the plan abused a plan member’s protected health information (PHI), when pursuing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Re-Thinks Equitable Remedies and the Legal Significance of SPDs</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/supreme-court-re-thinks-equitable-remedies-and-the-legal-significance-of-spds-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/supreme-court-re-thinks-equitable-remedies-and-the-legal-significance-of-spds-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Self-Insurer                               August 2011 From the Bench                Michael Friedman and John Eggertsen                  The U.S. Supreme Court, in GIGNA Corp v. Amara, et al., 563 U.S., 2011 WL 1936077 (May 16, 2011), revisited, and likely expanded, the scope of equitable remedies available under ERISA § 502 (a)(3). The Court also rejected Plaintiff’s effort to sue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4-Page Mini-SPD: Coming to a Plan Near You</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/the-4-page-mini-spd-coming-to-a-plan-near-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/the-4-page-mini-spd-coming-to-a-plan-near-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.smarthr.blogs.thompson.com September 14, 2011 – 12:42 pm &#124; By Todd Leeuwenburgh &#124; No comments yet Health care reform is still alive and kicking. Employer-sponsored health plans have implemented many of its thorny provisions, but one provision now looks like the biggest thorn of all. We are talking about Section 2715 of the Patient Protection and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group Health Plans Required to Deliver Summary Documents Beginning in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/summary-plan-description/group-health-plans-required-to-deliver-summary-documents-beginning-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/summary-plan-description/group-health-plans-required-to-deliver-summary-documents-beginning-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[DOL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.mckennalong.com August 22, 2011  Proposed health care reform regulations issued on August 17, 2011, by the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the “Departments”) impose new rules on group health plans and individual and group health insurers that are intended to enable consumers to more easily understand the health coverage they have, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrap Documents: A Cost-Effective Means of Complying with ERISA&#8217;s Plan Document and SPD Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/wrap-documents-a-cost-effective-means-of-complying-with-erisas-plan-document-and-spd-requirements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.lrlaw.com August 19, 2011  Peter Wand, David Manch  The Department of Labor recently announced plans to substantially increase the number of ERISA compliance audits it conducts each year. This is the first in a series of Client Alerts that Lewis and Roca LLP will publish over the coming months to help our clients evaluate their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Subrogation Efforts Run Afoul of Medical Privacy Laws?</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/can-subrogation-efforts-run-afoul-of-medical-privacy-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/can-subrogation-efforts-run-afoul-of-medical-privacy-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.passionforsubro.com/?p=7105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coordination of Benefits         Employee Benefits Series             THOMPSON            July 2011 &#124; VOL. 19, No.3 By Jack B. Helitzer, Esq.            This issue of the Newsletter features a unique legal strategy used by a participant’s attorney who claimed that the auto liability insurer and the plan abused a plan member’s protected health information (PHI), when pursuing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Re-Thinks Equitable Remedies and the Legal Significance of SPDs</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/supreme-court-re-thinks-equitable-remedies-and-the-legal-significance-of-spds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/supreme-court-re-thinks-equitable-remedies-and-the-legal-significance-of-spds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Self-Insurer                August 2011  From the Bench       Michael Friedman and John Eggertsen            The U.S. Supreme Court, in GIGNA Corp v. Amara, et al., 563 U.S., 2011 WL 1936077 (May 16, 2011), revisited, and likely expanded, the scope of equitable remedies available under ERISA § 502 (a)(3). The Court also rejected Plaintiff’s effort to sue [...]]]></description>
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