Firm attorneys handle a variety of litigation involving employment-related benefits, such as pension and welfare plans, including both single and multi-employer plans. Clients include employers and plan sponsors in a wide variety of industries, plan trustees, insurers, plan administrators and fiduciaries, multi-employer plans, buyers and sellers of businesses, and individual executives.

Our Benefits Litigation attorneys regularly:

• Litigate and arbitrate benefit claims, fiduciary and tax matters, funding disputes, plan terminations and mergers, and bankruptcy-related benefit matters
• Design, draft, and work with clients to implement benefit plans and equity-based and non-equity-based executive compensation programs
• Counsel clients on employee benefit and executive compensation arrangements in anticipation of changes in control, including employment and severance agreements, and advice regarding "golden parachute" issues
• Advise ERISA fiduciaries, plan sponsors, and plan service providers concerning ERISA requirements with respect to fiduciary conduct, prohibited transactions, reporting, and disclosure
• Assist ERISA fiduciaries, plan sponsors, and plan service providers in resolution, and litigation of fiduciary controversies, prohibited transactions, and related matters

 Recent representations have included:

• Defending one of the nation's leading providers of health, dental, group, life, disability and long-term care benefits in numerous ERISA and benefit claims against it
• Lead counsel in a class action in Tennessee against a large manufacturing operation
• Successful defense of an ERISA lawsuit in federal court relating to severance benefits for a global advanced technology systems manufacturer
• Successful defense of a long term disability case for a large chemical corporation

This is only a representative list of our case work. If you have a specific issue relating to benefits litigation, please contact Doug Duerr.