Marie E. Casciari will be co-moderating a panel on “Are Attempts at the State and Local Level to Innovate in the Benefits Space Preempted?” at the ABA JCEB Government Invitational in Baltimore, Maryland on March 22, 2018.
William Reynolds and Martina Sherman will be presenting an “ERISA Litigation Update” at the March meeting of the Chicago Bar Association Employee Benefits Committee on March 16.
Attorneys Marie Casciari and Martina Sherman have been named to Super Lawyers Rising Stars in Employee Benefits Law for 2018. Mark D. DeBofsky was once again named as one of the top 100 Lawyers in Illinois by SuperLawyers.
Mark DeBofsky will be speaking on a panel at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law on February 10 on recent developments in whether employers can enforce forum section clauses in their benefit plans dictating where lawsuits over claim denials may be brought. […]
Marie Casciari will be presenting at a seminar sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association entitled, “New Trends in Employee Benefits”. This seminar will focus on three issues that are either making news in the benefits community or have already been decided and deserve some additional explanation and discussion: Employee Benefit Issues in Mergers, Acquisitions and […]
On October 1, 2013, DeBofsky, Sherman & Casciari filed the case of Harder v. Robert Morris University, No. 13cv7041 (U.S.Dist.Ct.N.D.Ill.) challenging an employer’s claim to an employee’s life insurance benefits. The lawsuit alleges multiple ERISA violations by Robert Morris University, asserting a breach of fiduciary duty owed to its employee, Philip Harder, who died earlier […]