As the third year of the PPACA approaches, employers need to be aware of additional fees that will be assessed on insurers and plan administrators of self-insured plans beginning in 2013.

Since the US Supreme Court decision to uphold the majority of provisions of the health care reform law, most small business owners, and the CPAs who serve them, have begun to scrutinize how the law will impact them when implemented in 2014.

MetLife has released its "Tenth Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends," the results of which confirm that despite uncertain and shifting times, the potential of benefits to help attract and retain talent and improve employee productivity are stronger than ever.

Speaking at the AICPA/IFRS Foundation Conference on International Financial Reporting Standards in Boston recently, Jerry de St. Paer, executive chair, Group of North American Insurance Enterprises (GNAIE), said the current proposals and timelines advanced by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) contain fatal flaws.

Love it or hate it, your business clients have known for six months that the first bells of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) soon would begin to toll.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance reflecting statutory changes regarding the use of certain tax-favored arrangements, such as flexible spending arrangements (FSAs), to pay for over-the-counter medicines and drugs.

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" may be regarded by some to be the most terrifying words in the English language, but not so when you are dealing with a disaster.

On March 2, 2010, President Obama signed the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 (the “TEA”) extending the COBRA premium subsidy eligibility period for an additional month, through March 31, 2010.

Companies are seeing a litigation wave that corporate counsel expect to swell in the coming year, according to respondents of the 2009 Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Litigation Trends Survey.