Human Resources: COBRA

COBRA Administration Manager
Recent growth in regulatory and enforcement activities has made COBRA a risky and potentially costly area of benefits administration. COBRA Administrative Manager ® may help you stay on top of and comply with COBRA requirements.

Cafeteria Plan Manager ®
Advantages of cafeteria plans include employee participation and customization of benefits, employee attraction and retention, and tax advantages for both the employee and employer.

BASIC COBRA Administrator for Windows
BASIC COBRA Administrator for Windows is a software program that manages your company´s COBRA-recipient employee information. Since COBRA compliance is mandated by law, it is important that your company is more than simply aware of what the law says; it must make efforts to ensure that its actions are legally compliant.

BASIC COBRA Administrator for Windows
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985 requires by law that organizations of 20+ employees allow their employees and covered dependents to continue to receive group health benefits after experiencing "qualifying events", such as termination of employment, reduction of work hours, employee´s death, or divorce. BASIC COBRA Administrator for Windows is a software program that manages your company´s COBRA-recipient employee information.

Solo 5.0: Your COBRA and HIPAA Manager
Solo is sold as a subscriptioned software service that helps employers manage and comply with day-to-day COBRA regulations. One of the best features of Solo is that whenever there are changes to the legislation, Solo automatically incorporates those changes into its software.

COBRA EAS for Windows by Benefit Plan Systems Corp.
Although it may appear easy to avoid COBRA compliance, there are severe consequences if a company does not comply. Here´s a product that assists companies with the confusing and detailed process of COBRA compliance.

Report: Top Ten Employee Benefit Mistakes
Benefits provision is easily one of the most complex and detailed aspects within the employment realm due to its integration with state and federal legislation. This M. Lee Smith Report pinpoints ten of the most common benefits errors that often result in litigation and how to avoid making those costly mistakes.

COBRA Cancellation Form
COBRA Concellation Form Template

COBRA Continuation Form
COBRA Continuation Form Template

COBRA Initial Notifcation Form
COBRA Initial Notification Form Template

COBRA Overdue Payment Form
COBRA Overdue Payment Form Template

COBRA Qualifying Event Form
COBRA Qualifying Event Form Template

COBRA Beneficiaries as Unsecured Creditors
Employer may have to treat COBRA qualified beneficiaries as unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceeding.

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Tackling the Benefits Law Triumvirate: How to comply with ERISA, COBRA, and HIPPA
It's in your best interest to comply with ERISA, COBRA and HIPAA to avoid unnecessary and costly legal hazards. This report helps you protect yourself.

COBRA Administration Court Ruling
-When COBRA election is clearly late, ´incorrect´ date on election notice does not matter, 8th Circuit rules.

Dispute Over Termination Date Means COBRA Claim Proceeds
-A company fires someone but fails to take them off the payroll leading to COBRA complications.

State COBRA Law Preempted by ERISA
-Claims against an employer under a Connecticut COBRA-like law were dismissed by a Connecticut superior court as preempted by the federal COBRA law. The court also held that federal, not state courts, have exclusive jurisdiction over COBRA notice penalty claims.

Only Plan Participants, Not Plan Beneficiaries, Are Entitled to Notice Penalties, 11th Circuit Rules
-Although a former employee was entitled to penalties because of a plan administrator´s COBRA notice failure, his wife and two children - who were technically plan beneficiaries - were not.

COBRA's Notice Duty Met When Certified Mail Used, Even When Notice Was Not Received, 5th Circuit Rules
-An employer/plan administrator met its COBRA notification obligation by sending a COBRA notice by certified mail to a qualified beneficiary´s last known address even when the employer knew that the notice was not received.

PHSA Small Employer Exception Negates COBRA Claim
-A city government employer was exempt from COBRA coverage because it met the requirements for COBRA´s small employer exception.

Relatives, Part-Time Employees Count as Employees Under Small Employer Exception, Court Finds
-An employer could not qualify for COBRA´s small employer exception, a federal district court in Puerto Rico ruled, based on arguments that relatives who worked for the employer were not employees.

Evidence on Proper Notice Procedures Defeats COBRA Claims
-Evidence of consistent procedures in mailing COBRA election notices helped two employers/plan administrators defeat COBRA notice lawsuits in separate cases heard by a federal district court in Illinois.

Those Pesky COBRA Notices
-Think you can avoid responsibility for employees'' not getting COBRA notices just because you hired another company to send them out? Think again.

Suing to Recover COBRA Premiums Not Allowable Under ERISA, Court Rules
- A federal district court in Pennsylvania dismissed an ERISA claim alleging that a health fund should reimburse COBRA premiums.

Can A Business Afford (Not) To Offer Benefits?
-Benefits are getting more expensive, insurance carriers are becoming more selective and employees are demanding more options

Is A Workers'' Compensation Injury A Triggering Event For Purposes Of Giving An Employee COBRA Notice Under Our Group Health Plan?
-Reduction in the number of hours worked by an employee can be a "triggering event" for terminating group health coverage.

Employer Erred in Ending COBRA Coverage Due to Insurer Switch, 8th Circuit Rules
-When an employer/plan administrator switched insurers, it still had the duty to ensure that the COBRA coverage of existing qualified beneficiaries was maintained.

Up-to-the-Minute Changes with New Web-Based COBRA Solution
-Rebecca Kubica, HR.com´s Benefits Analyst, recently spoke with John Jenkins, President of COBRApoint. COBRApoint is a COBRA software solution that was released at the Benefits Management Forum & Expo a month ago.

Web-based COBRA Software Launches Free Trial Version
Companies across the nation have been anticipating the launch of COBRApoint´s Free Trial.

Employers Cautioned about New COBRA Regulations
The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued new regulations for employers administering employee health insurance benefits under the federal COBRA legislation.

New Service Provides COBRA Administration with Specialized Features at Small Employer Prices
WebCOBRA.com is an enterprise-ready system available at small employer prices, while offering the same COBRA administration functions available to significantly larger employers and administrators.

Travis Software Announces WebCOBRA.com's Service for Small Employers and Insurance Brokers
Travis Software Corp., a leading provider of advanced employee benefits software and the WebCOBRA.com system, announced today the availability of a new WebCOBRA.com service for small employers and insurance brokers, with specialized features including Federal and State continuation, e-mail notification of ready correspondence, and electronic document storage.

Decoding IRS Regulations Seminar Hosted by Full Circle HR and Payroll
Valuable tax information for San Antonio area business owners

Travis Software Corp., announced today the availability of WebCOBRA.com's February '06 Release.
The new version offers more than 100 enhanced features, including highly-requested features such as Client Invoicing, Premium Disbursements, Reimbursements, and Personalized Web Pages.

Premium, Billing Enhancements Mark Travis Software Release WebCOBRA.com's February '06 Upgrade
Personalized web pages, premium disbursement process and client invoicing among more than 100 updates to new version.

ProcessWorks, Inc. Launches Atlanta Office
National Human Resource Administration company continues expansion with new Southeast Region Office. Photo available upon request.

3PAdministrators Selects Eldorado Computing's ASP Solution for Managing Health Benefits
3PA´s implementation will include the complete suite of ECI´s HEALTHpac products including HEALTHpac, ADMINpac, eReports, WEBeci, and CSIpac.

Meet the COBRApoint Team at the ECFC Annual Conference
COBRApoint is the first web-powered software for COBRA, HIPAA, State Continuation and Retiree Billing administration and its revolutionary design makes it the first COBRA compliance platform developed on and accessed by the web.

Ultimate Software Launches Compliance Web Site
Ultimate Software's Compliance Resource Center includes factual information and recent court rulings on federal laws including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), sexual harassment, and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Workscape and Asparity Form Alliance to Offer Benefits Administration Decision Support Solutions
Strategic Collaboration Provides Workscape´s Clients with Tools to Streamline Benefits Selection and Service, Allowing Employees to Take Ownership of Healthcare Decisions

Availability of WebCOBRA.com's April '06 Release
New release for WebCOBRA.com.

Travis Software Corp. announced today the availability of WebCOBRA.com's April '06 Release.
The newly enhanced version of WebCOBRA.com allows for more control over reporting capabilities.

Travis Software Corp., announced a 99.9% Service Level Agreement to its WebCOBRA.com customers.
Few, if any, on-demand COBRA software vendors guarantee uptime or provide any Service Level Agreements (SLA) for their customers.

Laurdan Associates Announces the Release of the Eighth Edition of its HR Auditing Tool
Laurdan Associates, Inc. recently announced the release of the eighth edition of the Employment-Labor Law Audit^TM (ELLA ®), the nation´s leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool.

Secova/UltraLink Secures Eight Million in New Funding from Baring Private Equity; Funding Will Help Service Recent Client Wins
Secova/UltraLink, a leading provider of human resource and benefits management services, today announced it has secured eight million in new funding from Baring Private Equity Partners (BPEP), a leading international private equity fund.

Travis Software Corp. announced the availability of WebCOBRA.com´s July '06 upgrade.
The new version offers more enhanced features, including EFT/Credit Card Payments, Broker Billing, and Quick Certs for easy printing of HIPAA Certificates of Creditable Coverage.

EFT/Credit Card Payments, Quick Certs, and Broker Billing Updates Mark July Upgrade of Travis Software's WebCOBRA.com
July release geared to help administrators bring their business online Travis Software Corp., a market leader of Advanced Employee Benefits Software Administration and provider of the WebCOBRA.com system, announced today the availability of WebCOBRA.com's July '06 upgrade. The new version offers more enhanced features, including EFT/Credit Card Payments, Broker Billing, and Quick Certs for easy printing of HIPAA Certificates of Creditable Coverage.

New HR Tool Set to Transform Employee Benefit Education and Enrollment
THE NAVIGATORTM FROM NAVITECH SETS COURSE FOR IMPROVED BENEFITS COMMUNICATIONS

Travis Software Gives TravisCobra an "Extreme Makeover" with Redesigned, Expanded Version 8.0.
Upgrade features fresh look, plus features for advanced disbursement, expanded options for identity theft prevention, and new reports.

CONEXIS LAUNCHES ONLINE FSA QUOTING ENGINE
Web-based Proposals for Flexible Spending Account Services are Latest Example of CONEXIS´ Industry-Leading Benefits Administration Solutions

SECOVA POWERED BY ULTRALINK TO DELIVER FINAL WEBINAR
Company’s Chief of Client Consulting To Present New Webinar Following Successful Presentations at Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) Conferences

Secova Powered by Ultralink to Deliver Final Webinar in its 2006 Series
Secova powered by UltraLink, a leading provider of human resource and benefits management services, today announced the final webinar in its 2006 series entitled, “Maximizing Total Compensation as a Recruiting and Retention Tool” scheduled for Tuesday, December 5th at 12:00 pm PST. Company’s Chief of Client Consulting To Present New Webinar Following Successful Presentations at Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) Conferences

Executive Summary:Outsourcing Human Resources
Outsourcing HR is still a relatively new frontier in business practices - it's been less than 10 years since its debut - and it's still growing rapidly in the U.S. Most analysts predict that the growth will continue at least through 2008. Many companies currently outsourcing HR say that they intend to continue and expand outsourcing in the coming three years to include leave management, training and development, payroll, recruitment, health and wellness program administration, and global mobility.

Travis Software Corp., announced today the availability of WebCOBRA.com's January '07 upgrade.
The new version offers more enhanced features, including a WebAPI service, bulk mailing and additional reports and options.

Travis Software Offers Ways for Employers to Manage Rising Postal Rates
Current, Future Editions of WebCOBRA Can Reduce Weight of COBRA Correspondence

Travis Software Corp., announced current and future software features
Travis Software Corp., a market leader in Advanced Employee Benefits Software Administration and provider of TravisCobra software, announced current and future software features designed to manage the rising postal rates now facing employers and third-party administrators.

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Report Subscriptions, ACH Processing, and Payment Updates Mark Summer Upgrade of Travis Software
Travis Software Corp., a market leader of Advanced Employee Benefits Software Administration, announced today the Summer 2007 upgrade of its WebCOBRA.com system. The new version offers more enhanced features, including Report Subscriptions, ACH Processing, and a Payment Schedule of Qualified Beneficiary (QB) premiums for easy review of upcoming payment amounts.

Travis Software Corp., announced today the Summer 2007 upgrade of its WebCOBRA.com system.
The new version offers more enhanced features, including Report Subscriptions, ACH Processing, and a Payment Schedule of Qualified Beneficiary (QB) premiums for easy review of upcoming payment amounts.

ProView Global selects COBRApoint to power revolutionary COBRA service
ProView Global, an industry-leading off-shore employee benefits outsourcing provider in Manila, Philippines, has recently selected COCO Development’s integrated suite of solutions including the COBRApoint 2.0 SaaS platform, COCO Payment Services and COCO Mail Solutions to further increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of their full service COBRA compliance administration services.

Janet Weinstock Joins Benefit Concepts to Direct Sales in the Southeastern U.S.
Benefit Concepts, Inc. announced today that Janet Weinstock has joined the company as Regional Sales Manager covering the Southeastern United States. In this new role Ms. Weinstock will be responsible for the distribution and management of the benefits administration outsourcing services offered by Benefit Concepts. Ms. Weinstock has established an office in Tampa, Florida to service clients located in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi. In this capacity Janet will be working with both prospective end user clients and the broker/consultant community.

Travis Software Corp., announced today the Spring 2008 upgrade of its WebCOBRA.com system
The new version offers more enhanced features, including expanded API, sub-domains, and coupon enhancements.

Travis Software Releases Spring 2008 Upgrade for WebCOBRA.com
Travis Software Corp., a market leader of advanced employee benefits software, announced today the Spring 2008 upgrade of its WebCOBRA.com system. The new version offers more enhanced features, including expanded API, sub-domains, and coupon enhancements.

Warren L. Ezra Joins Benefit Concepts
Benefit Concepts, Inc. announced today that Warren Ezra has joined the company as Regional Sales Manager covering the Southeastern United States.