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Healthcare and Insurance Industry Consolidation: A Bitter Pill?

Corporate Synergies

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. Here’s why… Insurance industry consolidation is occurring at an unprecedented rate.

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Soaring New Heights: The IRS’s Crackdown of Aircraft Usage by Corporations and High-Income Earners

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced plans to initiate dozens of new audits this spring in an attempt to ground high-flying taxpayers and their personal usage of corporate aircrafts. These audits will focus primarily on “highest-risk” corporations and large partnerships, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel stated.

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10 People Sustainability Strategies for Your Business

Vantage Circle

Angela Davis, Activist As McKinsey says , the 2019 analysis finds that companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25 percent more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile—up from 21 percent in 2017 and 15 percent in 2014.

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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT CONTAINS MANY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RELATED PROVISIONS

Benefits Notes

Just four years after making significant changes to Code Section 162(m) as part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “TCJA”), Congress has again modified this provision of the Internal Revenue Code again in the ARPA. Changes to Code Section 162(m).