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ABA
Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
The Sections of Business Law, Health Law, Labor and Employment
Law,
Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, Taxation and Tort Trial
and Insurance Practice
and The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Present
The Supreme Court Speaks:
What the New ERISA Decisions Mean
for Employer-Sponsored Plans
A 90-minute Teleconference / Audio
Webcast
Thursday, July 15,
2004
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
This program has
already taken place.
Audiotapes are available for $150.
For ordering information, contact Nancy Matthews at matthewsn@staff.abanet.org
or (202) 662-8640.
Ref. #JCEBT040715SCSA
The current Supreme Court term has produced
three important but diverse ERISA decisions: Aetna Health
Inc. v. Davila, holding that patients cannot sue HMOs
in state courts under state tort laws for coverage decisions,
but must seek relief under ERISA; Central Laborers'
Pension Fund v. Heinz, holding that ERISA prohibits
a plan amendment expanding categories of postretirement employment
that triggers the suspension of early retirement benefits
already accrued; and Raymond B. Yates, M.D., P.C. Profit
Sharing Plan v. Hendon, holding that a working owner
of a professional corporation may be a participant in an ERISA
plan if the plan also covers one or more common law employees.
Listen to a lively discussion among a panel of experienced
practitioners representing participants, plans, HMOs and employers
focusing on what these decisions will mean for ERISA plans
and what changes may be necessary to plan design and operation
to respond to the new cases.
Moderator
Phyllis Borzi, O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP, Washington,
DC
Speakers
Bob Eccles, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington,
DC (counsel to Cigna in Davila case)
Jeff Lewis, Lewis & Feinberg, PC, Oakland, CA (involved
in writing amicus briefs in Davila and
Heinz cases on behalf of participants)
Joyce Mader, O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP, Washington,
DC (involved in writing amicus
brief in Heinz case on behalf of multiemployer plans)
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