60+ Years of Benefits Experience
Today’s employers must regularly assess and adjust their employee benefit plans to remain competitive and help recruit and retain a highly qualified workforce. For more than 60 years, Felhaber Larson has provided employers and trustees with the experienced legal counsel and quality technical expertise they need to ensure their employee benefits programs meet their current and future requirements.
Employee benefits reflect a complex and constantly changing array of tax, regulatory and economic issues. The pace of change in this legal area has never been greater. With more than 150 years of combined experience in employee benefits law, our attorneys consistently clarify the complexities of employee benefits, helping our clients achieve the right mix of benefits and cost-efficiency, with a sharp eye focused on regulatory compliance.
Team-oriented and client-centric, our attorneys work with employers and trust funds of all sizes, and with businesses as diverse as construction, health care and transportation. Knowing the nuances of particular industries means Felhaber is on the leading edge when assisting employers in creating, maintaining, revising or ending their specific employee benefit plans. We proactively counsel employers on a wide spectrum of employee benefit programs and issues, including Taft-Hartley multiemployer trusts, ESOP and other plans. Our practice areas are listed below, including:
Retirement Plans
- Traditional defined benefit pensions
- Cash balance plans
- Money purchase pension plans
- Profit sharing plans
- 401(k) plans
- 403(b) plans
- Deferred compensation arrangements
- Employee stock ownership plans
- ESOP plans
- 457 plans for tax-exempt organizations
- Church plans
Health and Welfare Plans
- Self-funded medical
- Fully insured medical
- Retiree health funding plans
- Health reimbursement arrangements
- Health savings accounts
- Disability plans
- Cafeteria plans
- Multiemployer apprenticeship and training funds
- Collectively bargained workers’ compensation
- Multiemployer holiday plans
- Multiemployer vacation plans
- Miscellaneous fringe benefits
Compliance
- IRS, PBGC and DOL compliance
- IRS determination letter applications
- Top hat plan filings
- PPACA compliance (health care reform)
- Health law privacy (HIPAA)
- IRS, DOL and HHS audits
- IRS and DOL corrections
- Plan fiduciary issues
- Withdrawal liability
- Merger and acquisition benefits review
- Plan document drafting and review
- Plan communications
- Plan administrative contract review
