The ERISA & Employee Benefit Practice Group is a full service employee benefits group that advises clients on ERISA compliance, fiduciary duties, litigates benefit claims, and structures and drafts plan documents or deals. We also advise our corporate clients on the impact of employee benefit plans in mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions. Our attorneys have comprehensive knowledge of ERISA and extensive experience litigating ERISA claims in the federal trial courts. Our attorneys have litigated ERISA claims throughout the United States, including, California, Massachusetts, Florida, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia. We work with Title I (fiduciary), Title IV (plan termination and withdrawal liability) and all aspects of executive compensation. We also provide counsel on numerous compliance issues regarding nonqualified deferred compensation provisions contained in the Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. We handle a number of life, health & disability insurance litigation under both the arbitrary and capricious standard of review, along with the de novo standard. Additionally, we spend much of time litigating fiduciary duty claims. For more information please email or contact our Practice Group Leader – Dale J. Morgado ERISA Law Services Disability insurance claims Pension claims Wrongful denial of benefit claims Cash balance litigation Insurance buyout settlements Life insurance denials Overpayments General plan compliance Voluntary IRS and Department of Labor plan compliance Employee benefit plan mergers Fiduciary counseling Fiduciary litigation Medical benefit claims ERISA reporting QDROs and spousal rights HIPPA & COBRA compliance Plan Design (profit sharing and 401k plans) Executive compensation Plan terminations ADEA Act Participant Directed Plans ADA Act Collectively bargained plan issues ESOPs |
