Riar's Employee Benefits group has highly experienced employee benefits litigators. In addition to representing plan sponsors, fiduciaries and plan professionals during Department of Labor investigations, our litigators fashion pre-litigation strategies with an eye towards reducing litigation risk and minimizing costs in high-stakes litigation. Our litigators have handled individual and class action litigation across the country:
- Retiree health care benefit termination
- Severance plan benefit denials
- Medical disability benefit denials
- Pension miscalculation claims
- Anti-cutback rule violations
- Discriminatory plan design
- Cash balance plans and other hybrid plans
- Fiduciary and co-fiduciary breaches
- Executive compensation
- Interference with rights under governed plans
- Excessive fees
- Prohibited transactions
- Non-compliance with disclosure requirements
- Multiemployer plan trustee disputes
- Multiemployer plan delinquent contribution and withdrawal liability disputes
- Public sector plan trustee misconduct under state law
- Employee benefits appellate litigation
Our experienced employee benefits advocates have also served as counsel to national trade associations and Court and have been selected by insurers to defend benefits litigation.
