Labor and Employment

Get an overview of the retirement issues arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Also addresses problems involving employee welfare benefit plans, including litigation. Some of the topics include: defining an employee benefit plan, health care plan litigation, damages and internal remedies, fiduciary responsibilities, termination of pension plans, withdrawal liability, reporting and disclosure requirements, preemption, discrimination problems in employee benefit plans, criminal enforcement, and severance pay plans.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

ERISA requires that employee benefit plans meet the demands of three federal agencies: the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); the Department of Labor (DOL); and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). In addition, ERISA is affected by major legislation, including: the Tax Reform Act of 1986; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; and the Pension Protection Act of 2006. This book goes step by step through these and other statutes and regulations.
Lexis (ID and password required)

The work features comprehensive guidance to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's effects on group health plans and health insurance issuers, and discusses updates on changes to pension funding rules for single-employer defined benefit plans and increased PBGC premiums resulting from the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.
Bloomberg Law (ID and password required)

Discusses how to screen cases, how to understand the policy, ERISA's regulatory requirements, how to apply for benefits, how to prove disability, how to protect your client's ongoing benefits, how to appeal a denial or discontinuation, how to evlauate the post-appeal claim, additional appeals, and how to litigate an ERISA disability claim.
Bloomberg Law (ID and password required)

Part 1: Procedural issues; Part 2: Pension, medical and other benefits; Part 3: Issues unique to pension plans; Part 4: Discrimination; Part 5: Fiduciary duties and remedies; Part 6: Multiemployer plans; Appendix : ERISA and US Code tables.
Bloomberg Law (ID and password required)

Chapters include a summary of major benefits legislation, coverage and scope of ERISA, reporting, disclosure and other procedural
requirements, participation, vesting and benefit accrual, minimum funding standards, fiduciary responsibility, plan termination Insurance and withdrawal liability, administration and enforcement.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Find ERISA background and development, elements of fiduciary responsibility, standards of conduct and related duties, responsibilities of cofiduciaries and others, remedies and liabilities, techniques for limiting liability exposure, common actors and practices, avoiding litigation, threshold considerations in representing parties to breach or claim disputes, and dealing with the government.
Westlaw (ID and password required)