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What happens when a claimant asserts totally disability… caused by subjective physical pain and mental illness?

Employers now may have an opportunity to save money and time by posting a Notice of Availability with respect to the reporting required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Forms 1095-B and 1095-C.

President Trump's Executive Order 14398 mandates that federal contractors affirmatively certify they do not engage in racially discriminatory DEI activities, with noncompliance potentially triggering contract termination, debarment, and False Claims Act liability. The order requires agencies to incorporate a new compliance clause into all federal contracts by April 25, 2026, creating immediate compliance obligations for contractors and subcontractors across the federal procurement landscape.

Oregon rang in the New Year with changes to regulations governing Paid Leave Oregon (PLO). The Oregon Employment Department (OED) issued modestly...

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The Seattle payroll tax, colloquially known as the JumpStart Seattle tax, collected more than $231 million for 2021...

The federal banking agencies have proposed on May 19, 2026 the most significant overhaul of the CAMELS supervisory rating system in nearly 30 years, signaling a major philosophical shift in bank supervision...

The FDIC and the OCC have adopted a joint final rule that will prohibit the agencies from criticizing or taking adverse action against a financial institution based on reputation risk.

The FDIC representative on the second panel was Leonard Chanin, Deputy to the FDIC Chairman.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling on June 27 invalidating universal injunctions as the remedy imposed by three federal district courts...

The NCUA has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to codify the elimination of reputational risk from its supervisory program, becoming the latest federal financial regulator to do so.

On Friday, May 15, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued two final rules on national banks’ and federal savings associations’ real estate lending powers related to mortgage escrow...

The Senate Banking, Housing and Affairs Committee (Banking Committee) would eliminate the CFPB's current funding source, as part of Committee's Republican version of its part...

FinCEN has issued a July alert urging banks and financial institutions to enhance their detection and reporting of fraud schemes targeting federal student aid programs. The alert identifies three primary fraud methods—ghost students, straw students, and insider-assisted schemes—and provides specific red flags to help institutions identify suspicious activity involving the approximately $120 billion in annual federal student aid disbursements.

On March 31, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an advisory on sham transactions, highlighting the compliance risks financial institutions...

On March 1, 2022, the Douglas County Superior Court ruled that Washington's new capital gains tax is unconstitutional. The tax, enacted in 2021, would have imposed a seven percent tax on long term capital gains over $250,000...

In Revenue Ruling 2020-27, the IRS announced that taxpayers cannot deduct expenses paid for with the proceeds of a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan that is forgiven.

Eight months ago, the Superior Court agreed with our argument and struck down Washington's capital gains tax as unconstitutional, as described more fully here.