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How COBRA Intersects with Medicare and Retiree Health Plans

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author and contributing editor of BLR’s publication Mandated Health Benefits: The COBRA Guide , which I used as background research. Furthermore, the Medicare statutory rules allow employer-sponsored group health plans to reduce or terminate coverage if retired employees become entitled to Medicare. Hamburger, Esq.,

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Disability Discrimination: Terminated Cancer Survivor’s ADA Claim Fails, Part 1

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Background. She informed Medtronic of her disability as a cancer survivor with long-term health effects. In 2005, she took the position of senior patient services specialist and again communicated her disability to her hiring supervisor. From roughly 2005 to 2008, she often took medical leave for medical appointments.