Employee benefit matters are increasingly complex, highly regulated, and involve a myriad of laws and regulations. Our employee benefits practice encompasses all aspects of ERISA as well as other laws that impact employee benefits such as tax, securities and labor laws. The firm handles benefit matters involving a wide range of corporate employer and collectively-bargained multi-employer retirement, health and other benefit plans. Examples of our services include:

• Designing, drafting, amending, merging and terminating plans;

• Drafting benefit communication materials including summary plan descriptions (SPDs);

• Benefit plan litigation;

• Representation before governmental agencies;

• Ongoing compliance advice to human resource departments, plan administrators and plan trustees including advice in connection with the following:

   

  • Funding arrangements for benefit plans including insured and self-insured arrangements;
  • Taxation of contributions and distributions;

  • Fiduciary responsibility, liability and prohibited transactions;

   

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and COBRA compliance for group health plans;

• Domestic relations issues impacting rights to employee benefits including domestic partner benefits, common-law marriage issues, qualified medical child support orders (QMCSOs) and qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs);

• Benefit plan insurance and service contracts as well as counseling regarding appropriate insurance coverage for plan administrators and trustees;

• Benefit issues involved in business and lending transactions including issues faced by financially-distressed employers in bankruptcy and reorganization; and

• Multi-employer plan collection and withdrawal liability issues.

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