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Andrew Tauber; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 30, 2012, previously published on June 27, 2012 Section 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) authorizes a plan fiduciary to enforce the plan against beneficiaries by seeking an injunction or “other appropriate equitable relief.” 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3). Under this provision, when a...
| | Insurance Company Surveillance of Accident and Disability Claimants
Paul J. Dombeck; The Law Office of Paul J. Dombeck, PLLC;
Legal Alert/Article April 9, 2012 As an Accident and Disability Plaintiff Attorney, I am increasingly finding that the Plan Administrators and/or Claims Adjusters for Long Term Disability benefit insurance companies are hiring detectives to conduct `sub rosa¿ surveillance to monitor and record the daily activities of disability...
| | U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Wal-Mart Class of 1.5 Million Female Plaintiffs
Richard W. Diaz; Blank Rome LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 24, 2011, previously published on June 2011 In a highly anticipated decision involving class actions of employment discrimination claims, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, that class certification of approximately 1.5 million plaintiffs was inappropriate. The plaintiffs, current and former...
| | Kilometers in Lunch Break Are Commuter Traffic
Mia van Dijk, Eugene Weultjes; Greenberg Traurig, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 2, 2010, previously published on November 30, 2010 The taxable benefit for a company car must be taken into account if the employee used the company car provided by his employer for more than 500 private kilometers. The Dutch wage tax act determines that kilometers for commuting by the employee do not qualify as private kilometers, but as business...
| | Taxable Benefit for Company Car per Calendar Year
Mia van Dijk, Eugene Weultjes; Greenberg Traurig, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 2, 2010, previously published on November 30, 2010 If an employer provides his employee with a company car that may also be used for private purposes, a taxable inclusion should be taken into account if the car is used for more than 500 private kilometers per calendar year. The taxable benefit is a maximum of 25% of the car’s list price for...
| | Third Circuit Holds Bankruptcy Code Overrides Debtor's Contractual Right to Unilaterally Terminate Retiree Health and Benefit Plans
Vivian M. Arias, Michael V. Blumenthal; Crowell & Moring LLP;
Legal Alert/Article September 2, 2010, previously published on September 1, 2010 The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently held that a chapter 11 debtor owing retiree health, life insurance, and other benefits must comply with the restrictions set out in section 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code before seeking to modify or terminate the retiree benefits during...
| | Retailers Beware: Statements May Not Be Protected
Mark S. Askanas, Dylan Bradley Carp; Jackson Lewis LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 13, 2010, previously published on May 7, 2010 The nationwide spate of class actions against retailers continues. These lawsuits typically allege management-level employees are misclassified as exempt from overtime laws and non-exempt employees are not provided all required meal and rest breaks. Employers have developed strategies to try to...
| | Courts Must Show Deference to Interpretations by Plan Administrators (Even the Second Time Around)
Fisher & Phillips LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 30, 2010, previously published on April 21, 2010 On April 21, 2010 the Supreme Court affirmed that a court must give deference to an ERISA fiduciary's second interpretation of ambiguous plan language, even if the first interpretation made by the fiduciary is struck down by the court as unreasonable. Using a "one strike doesn't mean you're...
| | Profiles in Partnership: A Study in Compatibility -- Cummins Inc. and Baker & Daniels LLP
Hudnall A. Pfeiffer; Baker & Daniels LLP;
Counsel to Counsel Article November 11, 2009, previously published by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® Counsel to Counsel Magazine
on September/October 2009 Cummins Inc.
makes things
that make things go:
diesel engines, power
generators and boat motors,
to name a few. But
the engine behind the
company¿s far-reaching
labor and employment
practice is a unique
compatibility between
the law department and
its outside counsel at
Baker &...
| | Counsel to Counsel Magazine -- September/October 2009 Complete Issue
Counsel to Counsel Article November 10, 2009 "The traditional model is, you have a matter and you either do it yourself or you hand it over," Mark Sifferlen, a senior in-house counsel at Cummins Inc., tells us in one of this issue's Profiles in Partnership. "That's just how a lot of law firms work."
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