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Pension Benefits & Executive Compensation: ERISA

A guide for researching employee benefits issues through the Brooklyn Law School Library's home page

ERISA Primary Law Introduction

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) regulates employee benefits, including retirement and pension plans and health care, disability, accident and death benefits.  Though other federal laws affect employee benefits (e.g., the FMLA and COBRA), ERISA is the most significant federal statute regulating employee benefit plans.

 

ERISA Secondary Sources

These resources specifically analyze ERISA or particular aspects of ERISA.  Sources located in other areas of this guide will also include extensive discussions of ERISA or aspects thereof. 

Corporate Counsel’s Guide to ERISA, Available on Westlaw.  This guide gives corporate counsel an overview of the retirement issues arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It also addresses the increasingly frequent problems involving employee welfare benefit plans, including litigation related to those issues.

ERISA Practice and Procedure, Cooke, Ronald J.  Thomson-West.  Available on Westlaw. This treatise provides a detailed legal framework for ERISA issues impacting labor, employment or tax practice attorneys.  It covers the scope and coverage of ERISA, reporting and disclosure requirements, participation, vesting and benefit accrual, minimum funding standards, fiduciary responsibility, plan termination insurance, withdrawal liability, administration and enforcement of ERISA.

ERISA Fiduciary Law.  2016 update.  Bloomberg Law.  Available on Bloomberg Law.  Serota, Susan P., and Andrew L. Oringer.

ERISA Practice and Litigation. Available on Westlaw 

ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits. Available on Westlaw