As described in our March 2018 Update article, "Estate Planning Under the New Tax Law," clients may wish to make large gifts in order to take advantage of the increased federal gift and estate tax exemption ($11,580,000 in 2020).

The 2015 UConn Innovation Quest (iQ) Program kicked off on February 16, 2015, with over 200 undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. students attending from across UConn.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted a motion for summary judgment filed by two Jane Does ...

On August 20, 2013, the Connecticut Appellate Court reversed a trial court’s decision that the East Haven Board of Education had violated the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act (CFEPA) when it terminated a teacher’s employment and failed to provide her with the specific accommodation that she had requested.

As we previously wrote about here, the New Jersey minimum wage increased to $8.25 per hour on January 1, 2014 pursuant to an amendment to the State Constitution that voters approved in November 2013.

As we discussed in a recent blog post, available here, the New Jersey Security and Financial Empowerment Act went into effect on October 1, 2013.

New Jersey law now allows employees to ask current or former co-workers about their job titles, occupational categories, pay and benefits, and status as members of protected categories.

New York legislators sought in 2013 to accelerate the increase to the state’s minimum wage to nine dollars an hour.

Fresh off President Barack Obama’s appeal during his State of the Union address to push for increases to the federal minimum wage, New York legislators introduced a series of measures to speed up and extend increases to the State’s minimum wage.

The New Jersey Assembly introduced a bill in May of 2013 that would require employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees.

On December 8, 2014, the U.S. Senate confirmed Lauren McFerran ("McFerran") to the National Labor Relations Board.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on May 4 that a key pilot program, the Pioneer Account...

On September 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it had awarded $67 million in grants as part of its Marketplace Navigator program.

Currently, the ACA requires that all medical policies available on the exchanges have enough in-network hospitals and doctors for members so that all services will be accessible without unreasonable delay.

According to the CMS announcement, the data releases are part of an initiative to increase the quality of healthcare and to inform spending by patients and consumers.

On August 26, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would provide $35.7 million in funding to 147 health centers in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for construction and renovation to support patient-centered medical homes.

As previously discussed here last year, the deadline for conversion to the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural codes was October 1, 2015.

On November 23, Moody's Investors Service announced the issuance of a new report, "Cross Sector -- Global: Cyber Risk of Growing Importance to Credit Analysis,"

According to a recent audit by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 22 of the 23 Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans created under the Affordable Care Act lost money in 2014.

An unfortunate fact of life, especially in a high stress world, is that people have heart attacks. And when they do, the damage that is caused is typically irreparable. Until now.