Solo and Small Firm
The Practitioner Fall 2017, Volume 23, Issue 4
Content
- Coach's Corner: Reach for the Stars: Getting to the Next Level in Your Career and Life
- Executive Committee of the Solo and Small Firm Law Section 2016-2017
- MCLE Article: Building a Successful Relationship through an Effective Sponsorship Agreement
- Table of Contents
- MCLE Article: a Law Firm's Legal Duty to Provide Reasonable Accommodation to Attorneys with Disabilities
- Congratulations to the 2017 Attorney of the Year L. Tracee Lorens
- Meet the New Executive Committee
- Meet the New Editor: Omar Sebastian Anorga
- Letter From the Outgoing Chair
- Employee Benefits for Small Employers: Your Questions Answered
- Letter From the Editor
- the Practitioner For Solo & Small Firms
Employee Benefits for Small Employers: Your Questions Answered
By Marilyn Monahan
Marilyn A. Monahan is the owner of Monahan Law Office in Marina del Rey. She focuses her practice on insurance law and employee benefits—concentrating on health and welfare plans—including compliance under the ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, and COBRA. She is a past chair of the Solo and Small Firm Section and may be reached at marilyn@monahanlawoffice.com.
Solo and small firm practitioners often have questions about the types of health and welfare benefits they can offer to their employees (or to themselves). Guidance on these issues is not readily available, and unfortunately the answers are sometimes complicated. This article will answer some common questions solo practitioners and small employers have about benefit options and flag some regulatory issues they should know about.