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AI: Managing The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 10/8/2024 Disability Accommodation in The Schools: Education, Facilities, Technology & Beyond 3/4/2024 Disability Accommodation in The Schools: Education, Facilities, Technology & Beyond 3/2/2024 AI IN THE INSURANCE COVERAGE LANDSCAPE—FIELD OF DREAMS OR MINEFIELD? 2/24/2024 AI in the Insurance and Coverage Landscape 2/23/2024 Health Plan Claim Denials Update 1/19/2024 Health Plan Claim Denials Update 1/19/2024 Top 10 Opportunities For Advisors To Add Value To Executives’ & Business Owners’ Financial Planning 3/23/2023 Top10 Opportunities For Advisors To Add Value To Executives’ & Business Owners’ Financial Planning 3/23/2023 Top10 Opportunities For Advisors To Add Value To Executives’ & Business Owners’ Financial Planning 3/3/2023 Educating Students With Mental Illness Dallas Bar Association 2023 Education Law Symposium 2/28/2023 Educating Students With Mental Illness: Legal & Practical Insights From The Front Lines 2/28/2023 Educating Students With Mental Illness: Legal & Practical Insights From The Front Lines 2/28/2023 HHS’ Proposed Changes Broadening Substance Use Confidentiality Rules, Consistency With HIPAA Requirements Raise Compliance Concerns For Health Care, Insurance & Other Business 11/28/2022 Workforce Management Tips For Mitigating Holiday Season Hangover Risks 11/16/2022 Cynthia Marcotte Stamer 2022 Martindale Hubble AV-Preeminent Rating 2022 COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates & Incentivies– Applicable Rules & Emerging Litigation 11/12/2021 Cynthia Marcotte Stamer 2021 Top10Dallas Best of the Best Award 2021 Around the World in Cross Border Transactions - HR Considerations 4/14/2021 2021 Dallas Association of Health Underwriters (DAHU) Compliance Day 3/17/2021 Kickin' COVID-19: Reopening Texas Summit - Doing Business Safely During COVID-19 and Other Pandemics 10/8/2020 HR & Benefit Leadership Resilience Strategies For Leading Your People & Operations Through COVID-19 Uncertainties & Disruptions 9/10/2020 HR & Benefit Leadership Resilience Strategies For Leading Your People & Operations Through COVID-19 Uncertainties & Disruptions 8/10/2020 Catching Up On the Latest from the EEOC On Wellness & Disease Management Programs Under the ADA & GINA 2/27/2018 Fiduciary, Employer & Other Challenges Under New Disability & Other ERISA Benefit Plan Claims Rules 1/26/2018 Catching up on the latest from the EEOC on Wellness & Disease Management Programs under the ADA & GINA 1/18/2018 Stamer Testimony To EBSA 2017 Advisory Council on Employee Benefits 8/23/2017 Same-Sex Marriages and Domestic Partnerships: Lessons Learned, Unanswered Questions and Best Practices 5/1/2017 New DOL Fiduciary Guidelines and How to Protect Yourself and Your Clients from this Increased Liability 10/19/2016 New DOL Fiduciary Guidelines and How to Protect Yourself and Your Clients from this Increased Liability 10/19/2016 Fiduciary Survival Skills Bootcamp.pdf 10/10/2016 2016 Benefits & Beyond: Navigating Employee Benefit Plans 4/5/2016 The Hidden Traps In Same Sex Ruling 6/27/2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Same Sex Decision.pdf 6/26/2015 New Document - sllHealthcare Breaches_ How to Respond.pdf 4/7/2015 Nine In Ninety 9/9/2014 DOL Health Plan Audits: What You Must Know to Prepare 6/23/2014 DOMA: Health & Cafeteria Plan Design & Administration In A Post-Windsor World 4/2014 Stamer on WFAA On Comfort Dogs Under Ada 6/21/2013 Foreign Transferees: Outbound, Inbound, Equity And Treaty Issues 3/13/2013 Brace For New Disability Discrimination Claims 10/11/2012 Supreme Court Decision Means Heallth Plans Under Fire 8/2012 Employers & Plan Fiduciaries Reminded To Confirm Credentials & Bonding For Internal Staff, Plan Fidiciaries & Vendors Dealing With Benefits 8/13/2012 Where ERISA Intersects With Other Areas Of The Law 8/4/2012 Risks Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries Face When Employee BEnefit Responsibilities Are Mishandled 7/9/2012 New IRS Worker Classification Settlement Program and its Risks 1/2012 Stamer Dallas Bar Journal Article Cautions Employers Must Take Holistic Approach To Address Worker Misclassification Risks 12/29/2011 Comment Deadline 1/31 Om HHS Plan To Let States define ACA 12/29/2011 Record-Breaking Countrywide Settlement Shows Discrimination Compliance Extends Beyond HR 12/2011 Employers Urged To Strengthen Worker Classification Defenses As Obama Administration Targets Employers Misclassifying Workers 12/27/2011 Employers Should Tighten Worker Classification Practices As Obama Administration Moves To Stamp Out Misclassification Abuses 12/26/2011 Medical Identity Theft/Fraud Convictions Highlight Need For Health Care Providers To Safeguard Health Information, Guard Against Fraud Schemes 11/27/2011 Medical Identity Theft/Fraud Convictions Show Health Care Providers, Plans & Other Businesses Must Safeguard Health & Other Information, Guard Against Fraud Schemes 11/23/2011 IRS U-Tube Video Discusses 2012 Flexible Benefit Plan Rule Change 11/14/2011 $20+ Million Settlement Shows Business Risk of Violating Military Service Member Or Veteran’s Federal Credit, Other Rights 11/14/2011 HIPAA Alert! OCR 1st HIPAA Privacy, Security & Breach Notification Compliance Audits Begin 11/8/2011 OCR Settlements Show Health Care & Disabled Housing Providers Face Growing Disability Discrimination Risks 10/22/2011 Stamer Talks About Health Care Reform, ADA, FMLA & Military Leave Developments At 10/21 Joint ABA Tax and RPTE Section Meetings In Denver 10/21/2011 OCR Settlements Show Health Care & DisablHealth Care &Housing Providers Face Growing Disability Discrimination Risks 10/19/2011 Employers Considering Using New IRS Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program To Resolve Payroll Tax Risks Must Also Manage Other Legal Exposures 9/22/2011 Stamer Named Fellow In American College of Employee Benefits Counsel 9/2/2011 The Nuts and Bolts of Reporting and Disclosure Rules for Employee Benefit Plans 8/30/2011 New IRS Voluntary Worker Classification Settlement Program Signals Growing Worker Misclassification Audit & Enforcement Emphasis 8/21/2011 ABA TIPS Section Appoints Cynthia Marcotte Stamer Vice Chair of Employee Benefits General Committee 8/15/2011 Labor Department 2011 Stats Show Employer Health Coverage & Other Benefit Statistics 7/29/2011 Conviction Highlights Risks of Misleading Investors 7/20/2011 Gulf Coast Area TEGE Council Employee Benefits & Exempt Organizations Enforcement & Compliance Summer 2011 Meeting 7/11/2011 Gulf Coast Area TEGE Council Pre-Event Reception & Dinner 7/10/2011 Group Health Claims And Appeals: The Brave New World For Making, Administering, And Paying Health Claims 6/14/2011 Group Health and Disability Claims and Appeals: The Brave New World for Making, Administering, and Paying Claims Program 4/28/2011 DOL considers easing rules for electronic benefit communications 4/22/2011 Improving the Effectiveness of Compliance & Risk Management By Getting HR On The Compliance Team 4/11/2011 Labor Department Rules On Electronic Distribution of ERISA-Required Benefit Plan Notices White Paper 4/9/2011 Plan Sponsors. Their Owners & Management & Others Risk Personal Liability If Others Defraud Plans or Mismanage Employee Benefit Plan Responsibilities 4/5/2011 Health Plan Embezzlement & Fraud: Prevention, Detection & Response Strategies for Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries 4/5/2011 Company Executives, Plan Sponsors & Others May Face Personal Liability When Others Defraud Plans or Mismanage Employee Benefit Plan Responsibilities 4/4/2011 The Boomers are Coming, Is the System Prepared? 4/1/2011 EEOC Finalizes Updates To Disability Regulations In Response to ADA Amendments Act: Employers Should Manage Risks 3/24/2011 EEOC Finalizes Updates To Disability Regulations In Response to ADA Amendments Act 3/24/2011 Woman's Power Hour For Executive Women's Network 3/17/2011 Stamer Speaks 4/28 On “Lean On Me” - Group Health and Disability Claims and Appeals: 3/7/2011 Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At Houston SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshop 3/4/2011 Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At Dallas SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshop 2/25/2011 Safeguarding Yourself From Liability For Another’s Employee Benefit Plan Embezzlement Or Other Misconduct 2/25/2011 Attorney Cynthia Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshops Flyer 2/11/2011 Attorney Cynthia Stamer Shares Best Practices for Protecting Plan Participant & Other Employee Information At SBWA/IRS Plan Administrator Skills Workshops 2/4/2011 Holiday Season Celebration Reminder To Manage Intoxication Risks 12/29/2010 Avoiding Post-Holiday Season HR Liability Hangover 12/29/2010 RESPONDING TO THE EPIDEMIC:STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING DIABETES CARE IN TEXAS 11/2010 DOL Proposes To Expand Investment Related Services Giving Rise to ERISA 10/21/2010 EEOC Charges Employers With Violating ADA By Denying Medical Leave 10/19/2010 Health Care Reform: Building Your Family's Healthcare Survival Plan 8/26/2010 Tighten & Update of Health & Other Plan Claims & Appeals Procedures & Documentation In Response To New Regulations, Tightening Court Review 8/8/2010 Review Of Worker Classifications Needed As Classification Scrutiny Rises 7/28/2010 Labor Department FMLA Guidance Adopts Broad Interpretation,Employer Care Needed Determining Who Qualifies As Child 7/19/2010 Employers Urged To Review & Strengthen Defensibility of Existing Worker Classification Practices In Light of Rising Congressional & Regulatory Scrutiny 6/30/2010 Worker Classification & Alternative Workforce: Employee Plans & Employment Tax Challenges 6/29/2010 TPA & Other Plan Services Agreements - Managing Risks & Improving Effectiveness 6/16/2010 2010 Health Plan Checkup 5/13/2010 Getting Your Health Care Reform Views Before Key Congressional Decision-Makers 3/17/2010 New Labor Department Rule Establishes 7 Day Deadline To Deliver 2/11/2010 Inapplicability of HIPAA Privacy To Disability Insurer Not License To Impose Unreasonable Proof Of Loss Requirements 2/8/2010 Legal Alert: Tough times are no excuse for ERISA shortcuts 2/5/2010 New American Academy of Pediatrics Report Urges Early Child Obesity Treatment 1/25/2010 Distressed Businesses & Their Business Leaders Face Liability Risks When Employee Benefit Obligations Mishandled.doc 12/30/2009 Employee Benefit Plan Sponsors & Fiduciaries Urged To Review Bonding, Credentials of Staff & Service Providers Under ERISA 12/2009 Department Of Labor Announces Plans To Expand Employee Benefits, Wage & Hour, OSHA & Other Reporting & Disclosure Requirements & To Implement Other New Employee Benefit Regula 12/2009 Employers Must Exercise Caution To Management Employment Liabilities When Acting To Manage H1N1 or Other Contagious Disease Risks 11/30/2009 Employers Should Act Proactively To Minimize Legal Hangover Risks Following Holiday Season Cele 11/30/2009 Legal Alert: Appeals court says ADA Amendments Act is not retroactive Stamer Moderates June 25 ABA Teleconference On When Benefits Lawyers and Other Service Providers Be Sued for Malpractice for Services to ERISA Plans 6/25/2009 Senate Democrats Unveil Their Health Care Reform Vision In Affordable Health Choices Act 6/10/2009 102 House Members Back New Bill To Mandate Employers Give 56 Hours Paid Leave Per Year 6/8/2009 Bill To Dictate Employers Give Up To 56 Hours of Paid Leave Per Year Enjoys Broad Support In House 6/8/2009 Legal Alert: Group health plans will face challenges with GINA 5/8/2009 Mitigating Workplace Fallout of Pandemic Response 5/5/2009 Dealing With Leave & Other Workplace Fallout of Swine Flu Pandemic Response 5/4/2009 Workforce Swine Flu Pandemic Survival Preparedness Tips For Business Dallas Morning News 5/1/2009 Workforce Swine Flu Pandemic Survival Preparedness Tips For Business 4/29/2009 April 21 ABA JCEB Subrogation Soup Teleconference 4/7/2009 JPI & United Airlines Lawsuits Highlight Rising Discrimination Risks To US Businesses 3/22/2009 ERISA Claims & Appeals Boot Camp 8/1/2008 Supreme Court's June 19 Decision About The Standard Of Review Applicable To ERISA Cases 7/2008 Supreme Court Ruling Provides Guidance For Improving Defensibility Of ERISA Claims Decisions 6/26/2008 Supreme Court: ERISA Participants Can Sue Fiduciaries For Individual Damages 6/2008 Supreme Court Provides Guidance About When Conflict of Interest Justifies Closer Scrutiny of Employee Benefit Plan Claims Decisions 6/2008 Employers, Health Plans & Insurers Face Significant New Nondiscrimination & Other Rules 6/2008 EBSA Issues- Guidance on Health Plan Wellness & Disease Management Practices Subject to HIPAA Nondiscrimination Rules 6/2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) , ABA Health eSource June 2008 Volume 4 Number 10 6/2008 Recession Readying Your Workforce To Meet New Business Challenges & Opportunities 5/30/2008 Employers, Health Plans & Insurers Face Significant New Nondiscrimination & Other Rules Under Genetic Information Law Signed By President 5/21/2008 2008 EDS Global Healthcare Symposium 4/23/2008 Privacy & Public Health: Real-World Scenarios And Strategies 4/15/2008 Privacy & Public Health: Real-World Scenarios And Strategies 4/2008 New Revisions to FMLA 4/2008 Supreme Court Rules Participants & Beneficiaries Can Sue Fiduciaries Under ERISA Section 502(a) To Recover 401(k) & Other Defined Contribution Account Losses 4/2008 Supreme Court Rules Participants & Beneficiaries Can Sue Fiduciaries Under ERISA § 502(a)(2) To Recover 401(k) & Other Defined Contribution Account Losses 2/20/2008 Update On Employment Rights Of Employees In The Military & Their Family 2/2008 New Federal Law Extending Federal Family Leave Rights To Employees With Family Member Called To Active Duty Or Caring For Family Member Injured 1/29/2008 Agencies Release 2007 Form 5500 Annual Report 12/2007 Executives and Others Face Tough Tax Liability Unless Deferred Compensation Arrangements Are Timely Updated For New Internal Revenue Code Section 409A Compliance 12/2007 Deferred Compensation 409 A Update 11/15/2007 Health Benefit Update 2007 Form 5500 Release 11/15/2007 Executives, Lenders & Others Risk Personal Liability If Employee Benefits Mismanaged 6/13/2007 Beck v. Pace 6/2007 Hispanic Health Care In America : Perspectives On Imperatives, Challenges & Opportunities 5/2007 Planning For The Pandemic - Selected Privacy Related Legal Concerns 5/2007 Operationalizing Circular 230 Compliance: A Real World Perspective 5/2007 Web Cybercrime Powerpoint Presentation Handout 5/2007 Healthcare & Immigrants 4/2007 Health Care Tool Box: Making Better Choices 1/2007 Final HIPAA Nondiscrimination Regulations Affecting Health and Wellness Programs 12/13/2006 Final HIPAA Nondiscrimination Regulations Affecting Health and Wellness Programs 12/2006 Labor Department, IRS & PBGC Propose Pension Protection Act Revisions to 2008 Form 5500 Report 12/6/2006 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS AND OTHER COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS GROUP 10/2006 Norfolk Mobility Benefits News Fall 2006 9/2006 Medical Privacy - Erisa Litigation - Chapter 35 8/2006 Fine-Tuning Your Health And Welfare Plans for 2006 Teleconference 7/2006 Helping Patients Build Their Patient Empowerment Toolkits ABA RPTE Meeting May 2006 5/2006 Helping Patients Build Their Patient Empowerment Toolkits 5/2006 Patient Empowerment In Elder Law and Disability Planning 5/3/2006 Spitzer brought bad practices to light; a good thing, panelists say 3/2006 SEC Proposes Changes to Sox Disclosure About Compensation and Related Matters 2/2006 Claims Processing Under the New World Order 2006 Employee Benefits Security Administration Main Page 2006 U.S. Department of Labor -- Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) 2006 Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (ABA) 2006 Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)- U.S. Department of Labor 2006 Social Security Online 2006 2005 All Industry Day 11/2005 Operationalizing Circular 230 Compliance: A Real World Perspective 11/2005 Operationalizing Circular 230 Compliance: A Real World Perspective 11/2005 HR's Role in Personal Identity Theft and Cybercrime Prevention 10/2005 Broker & Insurers Identity Theft & Privacy Perils 10/2005 Selected Federal Mandates Affecting Design and Administration of ERISA-Covered Health Plans 9/2005 Protecting & Using Patient Data In Disease Management Opportunities, Liabilities And Prescriptions 8/2005 Recent Rule Changes Likely Require Updates To Health & Cafeteria Plan Documents, Administration Form 8/2005 Fine-Tuning Your Health And Welfare Plans for 2006 Teleconference 7/2005 New Federal Requirements For Disposal of Personal Records and Information 7/1/2005 Privacy and Securities Standards - A Brief Nutshell 2/2005 Final Regulations for Health Coverage Portability; Final Rule 12/2004 2004 Joint Fall CLE Meeting 9/30/2004 Profiles in Membership - Probate and Property 5/2004 Cross Border Workforce Development Challenges & Opportunties 8th Annual Border Issues Conference 3/2004 Employee Benefits Subcommittee Meetings—Friday, September 12th 9/12/2003 Federal Legal Safeguards for Womens Health Coverage Expanding 5/2003 Employee Communications-Latest Buzz on Requirements, Risks and Opportunities Related to the New Health Plan Rules 9/2002 911 An Emergency Preparedness Plan For Managing Your People Through a Catastrophe or Crisis 6/2002 Fiduciary Responsibility During Turbulent Times 5/2002 “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N Roll: A Survival Toolkit for When Private Lives Affect Performance” 1/2002 WEBbits - November 2001 11/2001 Disease Management As Practical Solution for Achieving Clinical Quality & Financial Efficiency in an Evolving Health Care Arena 9/2001 “Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N Roll: A Survival Toolkit for When Private Lives Affect Performance” 9/2001 Outsourcing, Employee Leasing and Other Alternate Staffing Arrangements 11/1999 Selected Issues Regarding Health And Welfare Plans For Texas Governmental Employers 9/1999 Legal Environment of Welfare Plans- Fundamentals And Advanced Issues Of Employee Benefits 5/1999 Human Resources Management During Mergers, Acquisitions, Reductions in Force and Other Significant Business Changes 5/1999 Drafting And Negotiating Agreements With Executives 5/1999 Recent legislation that will affect employers who sponsor plans as well as those professionals who administer benefit plans. 1/1999 Avoiding The Liability Noose Between Human Resources and ERISA 1999 What To Do When An Employee's Private Life Becomes Your Business 1999 Selected Ethical Issues Affecting Corporate Counsel Involved in Employee Benefit Matters 1999 Fiduciary Responsibility In A Nutshell 1999 Employee Benefit Communications 1999 When Your Employee's Private Life Becomes Your Business 1999 Mergers, Acquisitions, & Integration Solving The People Puzzle 1999 Workplace Privacy Issues 1999 Bankruptcy and Employee Benefit Issues 1999 Leased Employees and other Contingent Workforce Issues 1999 Introduction to Bankruptcy A Basic Overview 1999 Fiduciary Hotspots for Health Plans 1999 Employee Benefits and Other Human Resources Issues Affecting Health Care Transactions 1999 Selected Issues Regarding Health and Welfare Plans for Texas Governmental Employers 1999 Employee Benefit Communications 1999 Employee Benefits And Other Human Resource Issues Affecting Health Care Transactions 11/1998 WHAT’ S THE BUZZ Breaking News Affecting Employee Benefits 5/1998 RE-ENGINEERING YOUR DEFLECTOR SHIELDS: Emerging Benefit and Health Issues 2/1997 A Proactive Approach To Hr And Benefits Planning For Mergers And Acquisitions 2/1997 Emerging Benefit And Health Issues 2/1997 health and Welfare Plans And The Americans With Disabilities Act 2/1993 ERISA Preemptions Use To Cut Workers Compensation Costs 6/1992 Worker's Compensation Texas Employment Law Handbook (1992) 1992 2/27 Deadline For Employers To Comment On DOL Proposed Rule Changes Extending Minimum Wage & Overtime Rules To More Home Caregiver Workers 12/27/1991 Employer’s Briefing On The Americans With Disabilities Act 7/1991 |
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