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Healthcare and Insurance Industry Consolidation: A Bitter Pill?

Corporate Synergies

Here’s why… Insurance industry consolidation is occurring at an unprecedented rate. Merger and acquisition activity in the brokerage and consulting space was at a feverish pitch in 2017 and through the first part of 2018, fueled in large part by the private equity industry’s continued love affair with the insurance distribution sector.

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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT CONTAINS MANY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RELATED PROVISIONS

Benefits Notes

While employers (for self-insured plans and multi-employer plans) or insurance carriers (for fully insured plans) are responsible for the COBRA subsidy, the paying entity is entitled to take a federal tax credit against payroll taxes. It is recommended that notices are not updated until the model notices are issued.