BNA Books Releases 2009 Cumulative Supplement to 'Employee Benefits Law'
ARLINGTON, VA, December 21, 2009 -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Employee Benefits Law, Second Edition. The supplement and its main volume are published by BNA Books, in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law.
Employee Benefits Law, Second Edition offers detailed, annotated coverage, providing careful analysis and balanced explanations of:
- ERISA Titles I and IV
- Rules of tax qualification, deductibility, and other key tax issues
- Interplay with related legal areas--including employment discrimination and labor relations
- A wide range of other issues attorneys face--or will face in the future
The 2009 Cumulative Supplement covers new cases, legislation, rules, and guidance, and includes analysis of:
- Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for DuPont Savings & Investment Plan, which makes clear that a QDRO cannot be used simply to effect a waiver of a pension in a divorce and resolves a circuit conflict on the determination of a plan beneficiary
- AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen, which resolves the circuit split on whether using a pre-PDA accrual rule constitutes a current violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
- The Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA), which addresses waivers of minimum distribution rules for calendar year 2009 for defined contribution plans and the funding-related relief WRERA provided to single and multi-employer pension plans
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), including provisions for COBRA subsidies to individuals whose employment was involuntarily terminated between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009
The Supplement also includes a completely rewritten chapter on reporting and disclosure, covering disclosures to participants and beneficiaries, as well as to government agencies and third parties. In addition, significant sections of the chapter on preemption have been newly rewritten, as has the chapter on liability issues unique to welfare plans, which covers the modification, reduction, and termination of retiree benefits--a topic where there have been significant legal developments in the past few years.
Dana M. Muir is Editor-in-Chief of the 2009 Cumulative Supplement. Steven J. Sacher and James I. Singer are Co-Chairs of Employee Benefits Law, Second Edition; Terese M. Connerton, Ronald Dean, Barbara S. Gutmann, Susan Katz Hoffman, D. Ward Kallstrom, Jeffrey Lewis, Howard Shapiro, Evan J. Spelfogel, and Jane Kheel Stanley are Senior Editors. All are members of the ABA Employee Benefits Committee of the Section of Labor and Employment Law. Numerous chapter editors and contributing editors provided essential research and writing in both the main volume and the 2009 Cumulative Supplement.
Section publications provide a balanced forum for the views and professional development of practitioners in labor and employment law. For more information on Section participation, please call the Section at (312) 988-5813 or visit http://www.abanet.org/labor/home.html.
About BNA
BNA is a leading private publisher of news and information products for professionals in law and business. In addition to Employee Benefits Law, Second Edition, BNA's Book Division publishes ERISA Class Exemptions; ERISA Fiduciary Law; ERISA Litigation; ERISA: The Law and the Code; ERISA Regulations; and other titles in legal specialties. For a free BNA Books catalog, call 1-800-960-1220 or send an e-mail request to books@bna.com. The BNA Books website, including an online catalog, can be found at bnabooks.com.
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