Employee Benefits

Bloomberg Law’s Benefits Practice Center gives you the tools and resources you need to design benefits plans, avoid litigation and tax issues, and address the most challenging employee benefits and pension-related issues. Track the latest policy developments and get key expert insights into benefits and executive compensation laws and regulations from Bloomberg BNA Portfolios. Plus, the ERISA Class Action Tracker keeps you on top of key developments regarding recently filed or pending ERISA class actions.

SAVE TIME WITH ERISA CLASS ACTION TRACKER

Keep track of key developments of recently filed or pending ERISA class actions and access court dockets, as well as getting direct access to significant court opinions and orders. Bloomberg Law provides two trackers–a compilation of the latest developments in the past week, and a master listing of all the ERISA class action dockets being tracked.

STAY CURRENT WITH LAW REPORTS

Bloomberg BNA Employee Benefits Law Reports deliver essential and reliable commentary and analysis about legislative, regulatory and court developments, enabling you to have a broader understanding of their implications for your clients. Titles include Pension & Benefits Daily™, BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter™, the Daily Tax Report^®, Health Insurance Report™, Compensation Planning Journal™ and other respected publications.

GET TRUSTED GUIDANCE WITH BLOOMBERG BNA PORTFOLIOS & ANALYSIS

With informative titles ranging from U.S. Income: Compensation Planning and Executive Employment Agreements, to Managed Care Contracting: Advising the Managed Care Organization, Bloomberg BNA’s Employee Benefits Portfolios provide you with targeted analysis and detailed instruction from industry practitioners. Each Portfolio features a searchable index to ensure your information needs are quickly satisfied.

U.S. Income Portfolio: Compensation Planning includes crucial details on:

• Age, Sex and Disability Discrimination in Employee Benefit Plans
• Cafeteria Plans
• Cash or Deferred Arrangements
• Church and Governmental Plans
• Deferred Compensation Arrangements
• Employee Benefit Plans and Issues for Small Employers
• Employee Benefits for Tax-Exempt Organizations
• Employee Benefits for the Contingent Workforce
• Employee Fringe Benefits
• Employee Plans—Deductions, Contributions and Funding
• Employment Status—Employee v. Independent Contractor
• EPCRS—Plan Correction and Disqualification
• ERISA—Fiduciary Responsibility and Prohibited Transactions
• ERISA—Litigation, Procedure, Preemption and Other Title I Issues
• ESOPs
• Estate and Gift Tax Issues for Employee Benefit Plans
• Golden Parachutes
• Insurance-Related Compensation
• International Pension Planning
• International Pension Planning—Puerto Rico
• IRAs
• Medical Plans—COBRA, HIPAA, HRAs, HSAs, and Disability
• Fast Answers: Federal Tax
• Health Care Reform Adviser
• IRS Practice Adviser
• Tax Practice Series

Additional Content Highlights:

• Laws & Regulations provide quick reference to key employee benefits legislation including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and many others.
• Opinions & Dockets make it easy to browse, save, annotate and share relevant documents from the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Circuit, and District Courts.
• Regulatory Agencies contains a comprehensive listing of key regulatory agencies, including the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Each agency section contains related guidance, forms, opinion letters, research reports, practice-related news and much more.
• Transactional Resources feature document and clause descriptions related to employee benefits and executive compensation, and make it easy to search example transaction documents in a database containing over 200,000 legal documents.
• Books & Treatises give you timely insight on a particular area of employee benefits law with a variety of practical guidance publications from the American Bar Association (ABA), Practising Law Institute (PLI), the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and Bloomberg BNA. Featured titles include:

BLOOMBERG BNA

• Employee Benefits Law
• ERISA Litigation
• ERISA Fiduciary Law
• ERISA Class Exemptions
• ERISA: The Law & Code
• ERISA Regulations
• Reductions in Force in Employment Law
• Section 409A Handbook
• The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
• Benefits Practitioners’ Strategy Guide

THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

• Corporate Director’s Guidebook
• Fundamentals of Corporate Governance
• SEC Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules

PRACTISING LAW INSTITUTE TREATISES

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

• Business Liability Insurance Answer Book 2011-2012: Fiduciary Liability Insurance
• Broker-Dealer Regulation, Chapter 28: ERISA Compliance Issues for Broker-Dealers
  
• Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing, Chapter 26: ERISA Implications
  
• Internal Revenue Service Practice & Procedure Deskbook
  
• Investment Adviser Regulation, Chapter 47: Private Equity Funds: Legal Analysis of Structural, ERISA, Securities and Other Regulatory Issues
  
• Investment Adviser Regulation, Chapter 49: Investment Advice for Employee Benefit Plans and IRAs
  
• Langer on Practical International Tax Planning
  
• Manning on Estate Planning, Chapter 9: Retirement Benefits
  
• Mutual Fund Regulation, Chapter 36: ERISA Issues for Mutual Fund Advisers
  
• New York Elder Law Handbook, Chapter 13: Retirement Plans
  
• Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide, Chapter 16: ERISA Litigation
  
• Variable Annuities & Variable Life Insurance Regulation, Chapter 5: ERISA Issues
  

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

• Directors’ and Officers’ Liability
• Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2012-2013, Chapter 31: Executive Compensation
• Corporate Compliance Answer Book 2010, Chapter 31: Executive Compensation
• Corporate Whistleblowing in the Sarbanes-Oxley/Dodd-Frank Era
• Deskbook on Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues
• Doing Business Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Business Professionals
• Guide to the SEC’s Executive Compensation and Related Party Transaction Disclosure
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Deskbook

AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE (ABI)

• ABI’s Pension Manual: A Practical Guide to Pension Issues Arising in Business Bankruptcy Cases

• Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Employee Benefits News page together offer relevant news from thousands of sources.

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