RHSB independent insurance brokerage firm is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Baker and Brett Messerall as Assistant Vice Presidents. They are part of the growing Commercial Property & Casualty sales practice
DetailsRHSB adds Assistant Vice President Lane Allen to Personal Client Services Practice. Lane is a Personal Risk Advisor providing concierge services to clients with emerging and established wealth who have high value and unique assets.
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Blockchain is essentially a decentralized ledger where two parties can exchange value with no intermediary. The pillars of blockchain, Ahluwalia continued, are consensus, state consistency, almost immediacy, and immutability—in other words, data does not go through a central source and, once entered, is quickly available to everyone on the chain but cannot be altered. With blockchain technology, manufacturers and distributors can track every step of a product’s journey from source to consumer and trust that the information is true and current.
DetailsDirk Hansen, Shannon Hansen, and Cindy Gonzales join Employee Benefits Practice at RHSB RHSB is pleased to announce the addition of three new experienced professionals to expand its Employee Benefits practice. Dirk Hansen joins as Senior Vice President, Principal, and Employee Benefits Practice Leader. Dirk has 37 years’ experience in the employee benefits industry serving…
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The Affordable Care Act imposes a fee on issuers of health insurance policies and plan sponsors of applicable self-insured health plans including stand-alone Health Reimbursement Arrangements or HRAs, to help fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Employers who sponsored self-funded medical plans or HRAs ending sometime in 2017 must report and pay the Affordable Care Act PCORI fees no later than July 31, 2018. The PCORI fee is based on the average number of lives covered under the policy or plan.
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The Affordable Care Act has many moving parts, and not to be overlooked is the annual inflation-adjusted shift in what constitutes “affordable” health care coverage.
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Company Size Impacts Application of “Pay or Play” and Information Reporting Requirements Employers are reminded that it is important to know how many full-time employees they have in order to ensure compliance with the employer shared responsibility provisions (“pay or play”) and corresponding information reporting requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—which apply only to…
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Calculator Helps Taxpayers Review Withholding Following New Tax Law The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released new versions of Form W-4 and its online withholding calculator to help taxpayers check their 2018 tax withholding following passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017. The IRS urges taxpayers to use these tools to make sure…
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Telecommuting (working from home) is growing in popularity. According to Global Work Play Analytics, the number of U.S. workers who do at least 50% of their work at home or some location other than a central office grew by 115% between 2005 and 2015. As of 2015, there were approximately 4 million telecommuting professionals. While…
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