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• Saying Too Much: Court Turns Retirement Incentive Offer Into Guaranteed Lifetime Retiree Health Benefits Plan ( August 2000 )
  

  This article highlights a 10th Circuit decision that ruled in favor of an employee that was given a retirement incentive offer. The court held that the letter created a new obligation under an ERISA welfare benefit plan.

• Benefits Briefs Vol. 13, No. 1 ( January 2000 )
  

  This article summarizes the eligibility requirement for a highly compensated employee, the definition of temporary work status and what is required for COBRA notice.

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Update ( January 2000 )
  

  This update covers four topics which include a brief summary of the new changes to the IRS Voluntary Compliance Programs; New Jersey's legislation on biologically based mental illness benefits; a short synopsis on New Jersey Supreme Court's holding that IRA assets that were fraudulently conveyed to defeat creditor are not protected; and IRS's re-calculation of cost of employer provided group term life insurance is likely to please employees.

• Cooley Alert: IRS Extends Qualified Plan Amendment Deadline ( June 1999 )
  

  This alert contains several articles on taxation issues including news that the IRS is extending the qualified plan amendment deadline. Also, this alert contains information pertaining to the IRS's new guidance regulations relating to COBRA.

• New Guidance on Administration of Health Care Plans ( February 2000 )
  

  This update summarizes two recent guidance reports from the Department of Labor and Health Human Services in which the Department provided clarification of the Woman's Health & Cancer Rights Act of 1988 and the National Medical Child Support Notice.

• Employees May have Insurance Continuation Rights Under Both Cobra and the Illinois Insurance Code ( May 2000 )
  

  Most employers are familiar with the federal Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA), but few may be aware .

• No Disability Insurance Coverage Under COBRA ( February 2000 )
  

  In this era of complicated and ever changing health care laws, business owners—both large and small—received so.

• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Services Proposes Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information ( November 1999 )
  

  This Alert discusses a proposed rule published by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services setting forth standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information.

• Department Of Labor Issues Guidance on Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act Of 1998 Notices ( January 2000 )
  

  You will recall that the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 (WHCRA) added Section 713 to the Employee Ret.

• Highlights of Proposed Federal Rule Governing Confidentiality of Healthcare Information ( November 1999 )
  

  In response to widespread concern that information otherwise regarded as private becomes readily accessible to the.