Employee Benefits

GPNA advises corporate and business clients in dealing in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, including contractual, confidentiality, trade secret and restrictive covenant issues. Our corporate attorneys consult closely with our litigation team regarding all aspects of the employer/employee relationship.

• Discrimination
• Harassment
• Retaliation, including filing Workers Compensation
• Violation of public policy, including failure to timely pay wages
• Negligent referral and defamation and
• Wrongful termination, including breach of contract and breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

We regularly defend employers and insurers against claims involving denial of retirement, health, life, disability, and severance benefits, alleged breaches of fiduciary duty, and alleged misrepresentations regarding benefits.

Lawyers on our benefits litigation team come from the firm's labor and employment, employee benefits, and commercial litigation groups. Our litigation capabilities are enhanced by our broad ERISA, tax, and securities expertise and experience with retirement and welfare benefit plans, service contracts, and plan administration.

We regularly advise and represent several insurers on benefit claims, fiduciary matters, subrogation workouts with participants, and contract disputes arising out of agreements to provide insurance and other services to employee benefits plans.

GPNA uses extensive firm resources and technology to stay current with recent legislative and regulatory developments affecting employee benefit plans.