Employee Benefits

Employee Benefit Law

Our lawyers provide day-to-day counseling to plan administrators, trustees and corporate clients with respect to their fiduciary responsibilities and compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code.
We advise a diverse group of clients, including public and private companies, tax-exempt institutions, trustees and fiduciaries, in every aspect of employee benefits and executive compensation, including ongoing advice concerning health and welfare plans and compliance with significant developments, such as increased federal regulation relating to COBRA and HIPAA. Our team routinely advises clients on fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transactions, compensation strategies and change in control arrangements, and has extensive transactional experience.

Health and Welfare Plans

Our team works with clients on the entire spectrum of health and welfare plans, including medical plans; dental plans; vision plans; employee assistance programs; vacation plans; severance plans; legal, educational and training programs; cafeteria plans, including premium conversion programs; health care flexible spending arrangements and dependent care arrangements; and other fringe benefit plans and post-retirement benefits. We provide ongoing advice to employers concerning various federal laws, regulations and rulings, including compliance developments relating to COBRA, HIPAA and USERRA.

ACA Compliance

Every employer and individual faces unique circumstances when it comes to complying with the Affordable Care Act. Our Firm can help employers and individuals understand the big picture and guide them through the details.

Taft-Hartly Funds

The Kasarda Law Group, LLC provides advice and assistance regarding day-to-day plan compliance issues, fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction issues, plan investment issues and withdrawal liability issues. We also actively assist multiemployer clients, such as private equity funds, with their merger activities. Our Firm has been retained by the trustees of Taft-Hartley funds to serve as counsel to such funds. We advise these trustees with respect to their fiduciary responsibilities; reporting and disclosure issues; participation, vesting, funding and benefit accrual issues; prohibited transactions; plan mergers and terminations; withdrawal liability; delinquency collections; and all other legal issues that arise

ERISA Litigation

The Kasarda Law Group, LLC has many experienced ERISA litigators who have handled cases, including class action lawsuits, involving allegations of fiduciary breach, challenges to plan amendments, terminations and mergers, actuarial malpractice, claims for benefits, challenges to plan provisions, withdrawal liability, delinquent contributions and collections, and challenges to the investment performance and investments of funds.

Contact Us

For professional legal services from our New York Office. While this contact does not serve to establish an attorney/client relationship, it will allow our legal team to begin an assessment of our clients needs.Please call (914)358-4302.