Practice Areas:
Employee Benefits
Overview
Labor
Employment
Workers' Disability
School
Employee Benefits
Corporate & Tax
General Litigation


Case Studies
Employee Benefits
Double-Breasted Operation Withstands Scrutiny
Keller Thoma has a long history of designing, implementing and administering qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, tax-sheltered annuities, government deferred compensation plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, life insurance, health benefit plans (insured and self-insured), and Taft-Hartley welfare benefit plans. This representation also includes verifying compliance with applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The firm attorney primarily responsible for these functions is a registered CPA as well as a licensed Michigan lawyer.

In addition to advising clients in the preparation and review of benefit plans, the firm represents employers in benefit-related litigation. In recent years, this has included litigation regarding independent contractor issues, alter ego disputes, pension disputes, actuarial disputes, conversion of plans from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans, contract disputes, fiduciary obligations, and individual benefit right claims.