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Susan Whittaker Hughes
Associate

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Cleveland
PNC Center
1900 East 9th Street, Suite 3200
Cleveland, OH 44114-3482

T 216.861.7841
F 216.696.0740

Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2008
  • Ohio, 2008

Education

  • J.D., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2008, Salutatorian, summa cum laude
  • M.A., Political Science, Ohio University, 2003, summa cum laude
  • B.A., Political Science, Ohio University, 2002, Honors Tutorial College, summa cum laude 

Susan Whittaker Hughes

Susan Whittaker Hughes concentrates her practice in the area of employee benefits and compensation. This includes working with for-profit and tax-exempt employers to design, implement and administer health and welfare, cafeteria, retirement and executive compensation plans. She assists employers with ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, Medicare and Internal Revenue Code compliance issues.

Susan also monitors and advises clients on legislative and regulatory developments impacting employee benefit matters. Most recently, she has been advising clients on their expanded HIPAA privacy and security and COBRA administrative obligations under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and healthcare reform issues.

During law school, Susan served as Business Editor of the Cleveland State Law Review, in which her note, “The Only Americans Legally Prohibited from Knowing Who Their Birth Parents Are: A Rejection of Privacy Rights as a Bar to Adult Adoptees’ Access to Original Birth and Adoption Records,” was published in 2007 (55 Cleveland State L. Rev. 429).

Susan serves on the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law’s Development Council.

Events
6/29/2012 Healthcare Reform Webinar: Fallout from the Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act Decision (LINK TO: RECORDED WEBINAR)

Articles
11/21/2011 Health Law Update by Jennifer Mills, Susan Whittaker Hughes and Chad Makuch Featured in Law 360

Executive Alert / Newsletters
6/3/2013 BakerHostetler's Benefits Broadcast
4/15/2013 Benefits Broadcast Newsletter
2/28/2013 Special Edition: Health Law Update
1/25/2013 Employers Receive Additional Time to Provide Exchange Notice to Employees
8/2/2012 Health Law Update—August 2, 2012
7/31/2012 Special Health Care Reform Series: "Puzzling" Through the Affordable Care Act's Employer Provisions—Piece By Piece
6/7/2012 Health Law Update—June 7, 2012
5/10/2012 Health Law Update—May 10, 2012
3/29/2012 Health Law Update—March 29, 2012
3/1/2012 Health Law Update—March 1, 2012
2/16/2012 Health Law Update—February 16, 2012
2/2/2012 Health Law Update—February 2, 2012
12/8/2011 Health Law Update—December 8, 2011
10/27/2011 Health Law Update—October 27, 2011
8/19/2011 Health Law Update—August 18, 2011
8/19/2011 New Deadline to Issue Medicare Part D Annual Notices is Fast Approaching