ERISA & Employee Benefits Litigation

Overview

Managing claims and lawsuits alleging breach of fiduciary duties, while continuing to provide benefits to plan participants and beneficiaries, has become especially challenging for employers who sponsor employee benefit plans.  Despite a fiduciary’s best intentions and efforts, complicated federal regulations (and a rather aggressive plaintiff’s bar) have resulted in costly and time-consuming class actions and benefits litigation.

Our team of nationally recognized ERISA lawyers stand ready to safeguard and proactively defend our clients’ interests while providing ongoing consulting services to help minimize the risk of litigation. O’Hagan Meyer’s ERISA and Employee Benefits lawyers regularly defend companies, insurers, service providers, employee associations, and nonprofit organizations in class action litigation involving 401(k) plans, ESOPs, and health and welfare plans. Our team also defends clients in benefits litigation and disputes initiated by the US Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

O’Hagan Meyer’s collaborative approach provides a cost-effective to create real-time solutions for our clients’ business and litigation needs.

Experience

• Represented plan fiduciaries in ERISA class actions alleging excessive fees and expenses for plan participants, and in class actions alleging breaches of fiduciary duty relative to the alleged failure to disclose excessive fees and expenses and performance of plan investments.
• Represented trustees of ESOPs in claims alleging prohibited transactions and breaches of fiduciary duty relative to the alleged overpayment of stock in transactions with selling shareholders.
• Represented plan sponsors and administrators in suits alleging violations of ERISA’s anti-cutback rules.
• Represented hundreds of self-insured ERISA plans in reference-based pricing challenges and other disputed relating to calculations of usual, customary, and reasonable medical reimbursements.
• Defended employers and plan fiduciaries in Section 510 retaliation claims.
• Defended plan administrators in cases challenging violations of COBRA and HIPAA’s wellness program rules.

• Defended clients in claims brought by Taft-Hartley Act pension and health and welfare funds alleging prohibited transactions and delinquent contributions.
• Represented double-breasted clients against alter ego/single employer challenged by multiemployer health and pension funds.

• Defended insurance companies in claims for ERISA and non-ERISA health and welfare benefits.

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