Trust The Leaders

Issue 30 / Fall 2011

• Health Care Reform: Impacting Employers Now And In The Future Under PPACA, if a group health plan offers dependent coverage, it must provide dependent coverage to adult children until such children turn age 26.
• How Well Do You Really Know Your Employees? Background checks, a consistent and professional interview process, and detailed record keeping can help companies avoid time-consuming and costly employmentrelated litigation.
• Immigration Legislation: What Does It Mean For Business? In this interview, Anton Mertens, head of SGR’s Immigration Practice, talks about where the immigration debate is headed and what changes businesses might expect.
• Love, Taxes & Equality? On June 24, 2011, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act (the “Act”), thereby granting same-sex couples the right to marry in New York. The Act confers the rights and benefits currently enjoyed by opposite-sex married couples under state law to same-sex married couples.
• It’s a Dog’s Life SGR tax and trust attorney Kristen Lewis and Visual and Social Media Coordinator Sarah Weikel explain the many and varied benefits of pet and animal therapy.