Tuesday, March 29, 2005

A 90-minute TeleConference/Live Audio Webcast

1:00-2:30 pm ET / 12:00-1:30 pm CT / 11:00 am-12:30 pm MT / 10:00 am-11:30 am PT

Can it really be that ERISA provides no remedy for some of even the most serious breaches of fiduciary duty; that medical plans cannot enforce their reimbursement provisions when claimants settle with third parties; that there is no “back pay” remedy for someone terminated in violation of ERISA; that it pays to lie to the beneficiaries?  Tune in, find out, and find out the little ways you might be able to use, or avoid, these traps.

TOPICS:    

·  Subrogation and reimbursement remedies

·  Fiduciary lies may be breaches, but who cares if there’s no remedy?

·  What is ERISA pre-emption?

·  Bad medical decisions by Plans

·  Impact on Safe Harbor Plans

·  Is §510 now just an empty shell of itself?

·  What is “equitable relief” anyway?

Moderator: 

Ron Dean, Ronald Dean A Law Corporation, Pacific Palisades, CA

Speakers: 

Elizabeth Hopkins, U.S. Department of Labor, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, Washington, DC.  Ms. Hopkins has been at the forefront of the DOL’s amicus program on the issue of ERISA remedies under 502(a)(3).

Thomas Lawrence, Lawrence & Russell, LLP, Memphis, TN. Mr. Lawrence has argued cases in nearly every circuit, seeking to enforce Plan’s subrogation and reimbursement rights.

Teresa Renaker, Lewis, Feinberg, Renaker & Jackson, PC, Oakland, CA . Ms. Renaker represents claimants, and classes of claimants, seeking to broaden the remedies available under 502(a)(3).

René E. Thorne, Proskauer Rose LLP, New Orleans, LA.  Ms. Thorne defends Plans against fiduciary breach claims.