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Our six attorney team has, on a combined basis, more than 140 years of employee benefits experience.

 


Recent Experience
  • We currently provide counsel for:

 

  • More than 90 individually designed qualified retirement plans
  • More than 50 different employers
  • Plans ranging in size covering from fewer than 50 to more than 250,000 participants 
 
  • We help design, document and communicate more than:

 

  • 35 401(k) plans
  • 35 defined benefit pension plans
  • 12 employee stock ownership plans
 
  • Three of our attorneys focus on welfare benefits issues; one has served as in-house counsel for a prominent heath plan service provider. They lead our team’s efforts to help clients:

 

  • Craft and communicate medical, dental, vision, EAP, disability, life, severance pay, consumer driven health, and cafeteria plans
  • Navigate complex ERISA and Code rules (including COBRA, HIPAA and Health Care Reform)
  • Design and implement wellness programs
  • Negotiate administration and stop loss agreements
  • Manage 501(c)(9) VEBA funding vehicles
 

Employee Benefits Team
Client List
Ceridian CHSEcolab
ev3Health PartnersImation Corp.
JostensLand O' LakesMerrill Corporation
Patterson CompaniesTargetToro
Attorney Contact
Brian Belisle 
612.607.7271
Employee Benefits Client Alerts

Effective October 1, 2013, Employers Must Distribute Health Insurance Exchange Notices (5.20.13) 

 

December 31, 2012 Deadline For Amending Certain Severance Arrangements to Ensure Section 409A Compliance (12.3.12) 

 

Dollar Limits for Qualified Plans (10.18.12) 

 

Health Care Reform Update for Employer-Sponsored Medical Plans (9.13.12) 

 

Plan Fiduciaries Must Review Service Providers’ Fee Disclosures Beginning July 1, 2012 (7.10.12) 

 

Employers Must Distribute Group Health Plan Summary Of Benefits And Coverage During This Fall’s Open Enrollment (5.17.12) 

 

Dollar Limits For Qualified Plans (10.20.11) 

 

2011 Open Enrollment Notices for ERISA Group Health Plans (8.22.11) 

 

Annual Medicare Part D Notification Deadline For Employers Has Changed (7.12.11) 

 

Upcoming Deadline to Amend Your Flex Plan: June 30, 2011 (6.23.11) 

 

New ERISA Fiduciary Responsibility and Disclosure Requirements: Plan Fiduciaries Should Prepare Now for 2012 Deadlines (4.25.11) 

 

IRS Issues New Guidance on Form W-2 Reporting of Health Care Cost (4.12.11) 

 

Dollar Limits For Qualified Plans (10.28.10) 

 

Employers Receiving Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Reimbursement Must Notify Plan Participants (10.20.10) 

 

Getting Your Medical and Cafeteria Plans Ready for 2011 (9.24.10) 

 

Maintaining Grandfathered Plan Status (6.24.10) 

 

Retiree-Only Plans Avoid Health Care Reform (6.24.10) 

 

If You Receive a Letter From the IRS... (6.8.10) 

 

What’s in Mr. Forfeiture’s Account Balance? (6.8.10) 

 

COBRA Subsidy Extended Until May 31, 2010 (4.23.10) 

 

New Tax Incentives Available For Employers Hiring Certain Unemployed Workers (4.15.10)  

 

COBRA Subsidy Extended Again—Until March 31, 2010 (3.8.10)  

 

Mental Health Parity Expansion (2.8.10)  

 

COBRA Subsidy Extension (12.28.09)  

 

Dollar Limits for Qualified Plans (10.19.09)  

 

IRS Issues New Model Tax Notices for Eligible Rollover Distributions (9.16.09)  

 

DOL Issues Model Notices for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act COBRA Premium Subsidy and Extended Election Period (3.20.09)  

 

A Cautionary Note To Employers Considering Mandatory Days Off (3.18.09) 

 

New HIPAA Privacy and Security Requirements Under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (3.16.09)  

 

New COBRA Changes Require Immediate Employer Action COBRA (2.19.09)  

 

“I Don't Care What Your Divorce Decree Says!": Recent Supreme Court Decision Simplifies Plan Administrators' Beneficiary Determinations (1.30.09)  

 

Minnesota Issues Guidance on Taxation of Severance, Equity Based Income and Other Deferred Compensation Paid to Nonresidents (10.24.08)  

 

IRS Issues Guidance on Health Savings Account (HSA) Issues (8.18.08)  

 

DOL Proposes New Information Disclosure Requirements for Plans with Participant-Directed Investments (8.12.08)  

 

HEART Act Affects Benefits For Military Personnel (6.26.08)  


Employer Action Needed For Cafeteria and Dependent Care Plans (3.24.08) 

 

Deferred Compensation and Stock Option Income Now Taxable For Minnesota Nonresidents (3.17.08) 

 

Bonus Deduction Denied Due to Employment Provision (2.06.08) 

 

DOL Issues Final Rules on Default Investment Alternatives Under Participant-Directed Individual Account Plans (11.8.07) 

 

IRS Extends Section 409A Transaction Relief to December 31, 2008 (10.23.07) 

 

IRS Provides Limited Relief From 409A Deadline (9.14.07)   
 

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