ERISA: Research Guide to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act

This handbook has clear and complete explanations of complex employee benefits statutes and regulations. The handbook illustrates the steps to be taken to keep a plan in compliance and the company out of court. Topics include FMLA, COBRA, employee benefit plan accounting, reporting to regulatory agencies, and tax considerations for qualified retirement plans.

This treatise provides a detailed legal framework for ERISA issues impacting labor, employment or tax practice attorneys. It covers the scope and coverage of ERISA, reporting and disclosure requirements, participation, vesting and benefit accrual, minimum funding standards, fiduciary responsibility, plan termination insurance, withdrawal liability, administration and enforcement of ERISA.

Overview of ERISA's scope and policies; analyzes case law focused on ERISA's principle features, including labor and tax law issues.

Federal income tax and ERISA issues, plus regulations, rulings, court decisions and surveys affecting pension, profit-sharing and welfare benefit plans are fully discussed in the comprehensive Pension Plan Guide explanations.

Expert commentary on a hot topic in the retirement and benefits field. A new portfolio is added monthly.

Reporting and disclosure requirements under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code, as they relate to employee benefit plans, are explained and illustrated in the Compliance Guide for Plan Administrators.

Corporate Counsel's Guide to ERISA gives corporate counsel an overview of the retirement issues arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It also addresses the increasingly frequent problems involving employee welfare benefit plans, including litigation related to those issues. Some of the topics covered in this book include: defining an employee benefit plan under ERISA, health care plan litigation, damages and internal remedies under ERISA , fiduciary responsibilities, termination of pension plans, withdrawal liability, ERISA reporting and disclosure requirements, ERISA preemption, discrimination problems in employee benefit plans, criminal enforcement of ERISA, and severance pay plans.