Bob is a partner and member of the Firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group.
His practice focuses on design, structure, implementation and regulatory compliance of all types of executive compensation programs ...
As a cautionary tale for any plan that is denying a participant’s claim for benefits, we present the 6th Circuit’s opinion in Moyer v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In Moyer, the 6th Circuit agreed with MetLife that the statute of limitations to seek judicial review for a denied claim can be limited by the ...
Bob Saelinger
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced Oct. 31st that employers’ Section 125 plans that contain health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) may now allow FSA participants to carry over up to $500 of unused health FSA balances at plan year end to the immediately following plan year. This relaxes the ...
Yesterday the IRS issued well over 100 pages of proposed regulations dealing with the massive new reporting requirements imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on large employers (more than 50 employees), insurance carriers and self-insured employers. These proposed regulations (issued under IRC sections 6055 and 6056) are ...
What a summer so far. The Obama administration has delayed application of the employer mandate under Health Care Reform for another year – to 2015. [Coincidental that this moves implementation of the employer penalty beyond the 2014 mid-term elections? Probably not.] Will a delay in Health Care Reform’s individual mandate ...