Seyfarth Shaw’s Richard Loebl Authors Chapter in Supplement to BNA’s ERISA Fiduciary Law

NEW YORK (March 6, 2012) - Seyfarth Shaw LLP is delighted to announce that New York office Employee Benefits Department attorney Richard Loebl recently co-authored an important chapter in the 2011 Cumulative Supplement to accompany the second edition of BNA’s book on Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Fiduciary Law.

Loebl’s chapter on “Individual prohibited Transaction Exemptions” includes a discussion of the Department of Labor’s recently-modified procedures for issuing exemptions, the Department’s new index of granted exemptions, trends in the exemptions granted and developments such as those regarding captive reinsurance arrangements and the effects of consolidation in the financial industry. Loebl has co-authored this chapter since the original publication of the first edition of this book in the mid 1990’s.

Applicable to any legal practitioner dealing with ERISA’s numerous requirements, ERISA Fiduciary Law clarifies the evolving body of plan fiduciary case law, with analyses on ERISA fiduciary topics covering ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, Department of Labor regulations and the federal courts.

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