Insurance carriers appreciate our ability to guide them through the full spectrum of issues relating to welfare benefits, ranging from advising on policy language in this nuanced and complex space to handling disputes and litigation. Insurers and their insureds trust our substantial experience handling state and federal litigation involving ERISA plans, as well as disputes relating to employees’ health insurance, disability and life insurance, and retirement benefits, including Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO’s).
Notably, and with regard to ERISA law, our attorneys assist employers and plan fiduciaries, including pension plan trustees, in litigation matters, such as claims for plan benefits and claims for breach of fiduciary duties. When covered claims arise in this space, the firm’s litigators team with our compensation and benefits lawyers to provide the most effective service possible in the rapidly changing area of ERISA litigation. We also represent clients in connection with audits, investigations and proceedings involving governmental agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor and the EEOC.
With regard to the welfare plan side of benefits work, our attorneys focus their practices on all manner of benefits litigation, ERISA and non-ERISA. Our firm represents insurance companies, employers, plans (welfare and pension), TPAs and other entities in all manner of benefits litigation, including defense of claims for benefits, alleged wrongful terminations of benefits, statutory penalty claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, ERISA 510 (discrimination) claims, COBRA, and more.