Employee Benefits

Bush Gottlieb attorneys represent Taft-Hartley and governmental pension and health plans in a number of industries. In that capacity, we provide counsel to plans and their trustees with regard to the complex rules governing those plans, including compliance obligations under such federal laws as ERISA, HIPAA and COBRA. We provide expertise to guide our plan clients through numerous other areas of concern, including QDRO requirements, benefit denials, trustee deadlocks, withdrawal liability tax qualification issues, employer audits and contribution collection litigation. Our employee benefits attorneys serve in leadership positions in the Los Angeles County Bar Association, California Bar Association, and American Bar Association Employee Benefits Section. Among our trust fund clients are Screen Actors Guild-Producer Pension Plan, Western Alliance Trust Fund, Pacific Alliance Food & Commercial Workers Trust Fund, EP Health Insurance Trust, California Healthcare Industry Trust, Public Employees Benefit Trust of California, United Farm Workers Trust Funds, Directors Guild of America-Producer Pension and Health Plans, Motion Picture Industry Pension Plans, and United Firefighters of Los Angeles Benefit Funds.

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