Posts by Julia Thomas

One of the new changes enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) was an amendment to §7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”) to provide for reasonable break time and a place for non-exempt, nursing mothers, to express milk. The Act amended the FLSA to require that employers provide “reasonable…

On December 17, 2010, Congress enacted the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the “2010 Act”), which substantially increased the amount of property an individual could gift during their lifetime free of gift tax. Specifically, the 2010 Act raised the lifetime gift tax exemption from $1 million in 2010 to…

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) constitutional, it’s time to take a closer look at what the law means to you. Under the ACA, insurers must pay for certain preventive and screening services to identify problems early when treatments have a greater likelihood of success at…