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Employee Benefit Plan Audits
Detecting oversights, fixing flaws, and ensuring compliance in your workplace practices and benefit plans
Overview
Our Benefits team helps companies audit their workplace policies and benefits plans to ensure compliance with the rapidly changing legal environments in which they operate locally, nationally, and globally. These audits can prevent litigation, large-scale government audits, and massive fines by identifying and addressing problems proactively. They also prevent M&A transactions from derailing. Nixon Peabody helps companies navigate the growing complexity of their plans, compliance requirements, and industry best practices.
Clients turn to us to:
- Provide guidance on plan operational requirements, important changes in laws, and plan qualification and reporting failures
- Advise plan committees and administrators on ERISA special fiduciary rules, roles, and responsibilities
- Counsel on health, life, disability, cafeteria, and other welfare benefit plans,
- Review healthcare continuation provisions of COBRA and the privacy requirements of HIPAA
- Ensure compliance with the employer coverage and contribution requirements of the Affordable Care Act
- Represent employers before the DOL, IRS, and other agencies in audits and regulatory actions
Our Team
See Full TeamEric Paley
Partner / Team Leader, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation- Rochester
- Office:585.263.1012
- epaley@nixonpeabody.com
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Tara E. Daub
Partner / Practice Group Leader, Labor & Employment- Long Island
- Office:516.832.7613
- tdaub@nixonpeabody.com
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Stephen J. Jones
Partner / Co-Leader, Wage & Hour Compliance and Litigation Team- Rochester
- Office:585.263.1386Mobile:585.281.5880
- sjones@nixonpeabody.com
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