ACA Legal Challenges Continue

Legislation

Apr 2019 – This article is intended to provide you with an update on current legal challenges to invalidate the ACA. There is no immediate impact to employer-sponsored health plans or other requirements under the ACA.   In 2018, a Texas Court ruled in favor of 20 Republican state attorneys general (“AGsâ€) to invalidate the…

Court Strikes Down Association Health Plan Rules

Legislation

On March 28th, 2019, a Federal District Court in the District of Columbia struck down significant portions of the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Association Health Plan (AHP) Final Rule. Specifically, the Court found the DOL “failed to reasonably interpret†ERISA when issuing these rules by: expanding the definition of “employers†to include disparate groups of…