erisa litigation

Thompson Coburn LLP has a nationally recognized record of success representing publicly traded companies, private companies and insurance companies in all types of ERISA litigation. We have been on the cutting edge of ERISA litigation cases, some of which are frequently cited as precedents by courts across the country. Our attorneys have handled ERISA cases involving:

• Participants and beneficiaries who have asserted claims for benefits and for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.
• Clients who were the targets of investigations by the United States Department of Labor.
• Issues regarding cash balance plans and the interest rates and mortality tables applicable to those plans.
• "Serious consideration" in the context of early retirement programs.
• Whether an independent contractor was a participant in an employee benefit plan.
• Limits of relief under § 502(a)(3) of ERISA.
• Reduction of retiree medical benefits.
• Full range of claims involving:
  

We also have set precedent for removing cases to federal court under the "complete preemption" doctrine and have prevailed in ERISA cases before the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits and appeared in district courts in virtually every circuit.