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Health and Welfare Plan Audits: How to Ensure Benefit Plan Compliance

Course Description:

Are your employee health and welfare plans compliant with ERISA and Internal Revenue Code?  How would you feel if your organization was selected by the DOL or IRS for an audit?

Employee benefit plans are subject to an array of regulatory requirements.  The rules not only apply to tax qualified retirement plans, but also to nonqualified retirement plans, group health, life and disability plans, certain bonus and long term incentive plans, severance plans, and even unwritten compensation plans. 

Too often, HR and benefits pros pay insufficient attention to their plans’ legal compliance until problems arise — and by that time it’s too late.  Failure to comply with these complex and ever-changing rules could result in substantial penalties, exorbitant fines, a federal audit, even litigation.  

Join CCM and Linda Rosenzweig, Of Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, to learn how to ensure your employee benefit plans are in compliance. You’ll learn how to keep your plans problem-free moving forward, as well as identify and correct any problems that may exist. 

Course Highlights:

• Identify which welfare benefits are subject to ERISA
• Plan documents: What must be included and what provisions are illegal
• Ensure your Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs) are in compliance
• Fiduciary issues plan sponsors can’t ignore
• Understand the impact that federal laws have on health plans
• COBRA concerns
• Understand reporting & disclosure requirements 
• Strategies to handle benefits claims procedures and limiting liability

Featured Faculty:

Linda E. Rosenzweig, Of Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Linda E. Rosenzweig has been practicing in the area of employee benefits and employment law for more than 30  years.  Ms. Rosenzweig's employee benefits experience, designing plans and representing clients in litigation and before Federal agencies responsible for the enforcement of ERISA, permits her to offer expertise in the entire range of employee benefits, including labor and tax issues, executive compensation, fiduciary issues, and compliance issues for retirement, health and other welfare benefits.  Ms. Rosenzweig's knowledge and experience also extend to the federal employment discrimination laws, Medicare secondary payer rules, and mergers and acquisitions.  In addition, she has particular expertise in all aspects of the plan termination process, both with respect to plans seeking a reversion upon termination and on issues of employer liability for plans terminating in or outside of a bankruptcy proceeding.  She served as the Executive Assistant to the General Counsel at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Ms. Rosenzweig is the Secretary and President-Elect of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Worldwide Employee Benefits ("WEB") Network. Ms. Rosenzweig is a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, and and a member of its Northeast Region Nominating Committee.  She is the 2001 recipient of the American Bar Association's Edmund S. Muskie Pro Bono Award, which she received for her work as the founder and Director of a Pilot Pension Dispute Resolution Project. She was the Chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Interest Group of the American Bar Association Health Section, and the Section's Liaison to the ABA's Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.

In addition, Ms. Rosenzweig previously served for two terms as the Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the ABA's Tort and Insurance Practice Section.  She is also member of the ABA's Tax and Labor Sections' Employee Benefits Committees.  She is named as a Recommended Lawyer in Global Counsel 3000 and the PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook 2008.

Ms. Rosenzweig has published numerous articles, is the author of the COBRA Handbook (Second Edition) and the Pension Answer Book (Fifth Edition), and co-editor of OFCCP and Federal Contract Compliance (PLI).  She has spoken nationally on all aspects of employee benefits, including HIPAA privacy issues, deferred compensation (Section 409A), COBRA compliance, fiduciary obligations, compensation of service provider issues, preemption of state laws, age and sex discrimination, and participant communications.

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HRCI - Receive 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

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