Employee Benefits
The Miller Nash employee benefits team has been assisting clients with their benefit plans for more than 50 years.
We have one of the largest groups of benefits attorneys in the Pacific Northwest. Our core team members are not generalists with some experience in many different areas of the law; we practice employee benefits law exclusively.
We work with corporate, tax-exempt, and government employers on all types of deferred compensation and health and welfare plans. The benefits team's proficiency in deferred compensation plans includes the following plans: profit sharing, 401(k), money purchase pension, traditional defined benefit, 403(b), 457(b), nonqualified, and 457(f). Our experience with health and welfare plans includes the following plans: cafeteria, health flexible spending arrangements, DCAPs, HSAs, HRAs, severance, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, life insurance, disability, EAPs, educational assistance, VEBAs, and wraparound. We work with single employer and multiple employer plans.
We represent clients and their plans before the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. We prepare plan documents, trust agreements, SPDs, SMMs, benefit forms, notices to participants, determination letter applications, Form 5500s, and excise tax filings. We advise plan sponsors with respect to plan design, plan administration, benefit claims, reporting and disclosure compliance, qualification requirements, nondiscrimination testing, fiduciary duties, investment matters, service-provider contracts, IRS and DOL audits, correction of compliance problems, and restructuring benefit plans in business transactions.
