Key Employer Questions After Association Health Plan Ruling

By Laura Westfall and Tabitha Crosier (April 25, 2019, 3:07 PM EDT) -- In State of New York v. United States Department of Labor,[1] the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that the U.S. Department of Labor's final regulations on association health plans, or AHPs, issued on June 21, 2018,[2] impermissibly expanded the definition of "employer" beyond what the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 allowed, and effectively created a workaround intended to help small businesses and sole proprietors avoid many of the requirements of the Affordable Care Act applicable to health coverage available in small-group and individual insurance markets....

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