ABA: Request for Employee Benefit Q&As for Government Agencies
The following is from a letter we received this morning from Phyllis C. Borzi, Chair of the American Bar Association Joint ommittee on Employee Benefits. It is being posted for the benefit of those who would have an interest in responding:
Dear Employee Benefits Practitioner:
Every year, the Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) presents questions from the members of the employee benefits committees of the six Sections of the ABA participating in the JCEB to various federal agencies in Washington, D.C. The agency meetings are held immediately before the May meeting of the Tax Section. This year the JCEB will be meeting with the IRS, DOL, SEC, PBGC, EEOC, HHS and CMS. This is your opportunity to ask technical questions of the staffs of the various agencies. The results of these meetings will be summarized in a written report which will be published on the JCEB website www.abanet.org/jceb/.
In order to provide the agencies with sufficient notice to answer the questions, the questions must be submitted to designated individuals by March 5, 2009. Each question to the IRS and DOL must contain your proposed answer and an analysis demonstrating why you think the answer is correct. Questions for the IRS and DOL which do not contain an analysis and proposed answer will not be submitted. Including the proposed answer and analysis is also recommended for the other agencies. For all agencies, questions previously submitted should not be resubmitted this year unless there has been an intervening event and no questions should be submitted that involve pending controversies before the agency or a controversy in litigation. For all agencies, please include a reference and citation to any case decision or on-going litigation that involves the question that has been posed.
Please address your questions and proposed answers to the following individuals:
TORT TRIAL &
INSURANCE PRACTICE
H. Douglas Hinson
Atlanta, GA
Jonathan Rose
Washington, DC
Teresa S. Renaker
Oakland, CA
STAFF
Christine A. Brunswick
Karen Case
Mary Karounos
Nancy Matthews
Washington, DC
CMS - Mark Stember
Kilpatrick Stockton
Suite 900
607 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005-2018
MStember@KilpatrickStockton.com
DOL - Chantel Sheaks
Principal, Government Affairs
Buck Consultants, An ACS Company
1800 M Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Chantel.Sheaks@buckconsultants.com
EEOC - Thomas R. Standley
Marathon Oil Company
539 South Main Street, Rm 814-M
Findlay, OH 45840
trstandley@marathonoil.com
HHS - Kaye L. Pestaina
Vice President
National Health Compliance
SEGAL
1920 N Street, NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
kpestaina@segalco.com
IRS - Anne Meyer
Snell and Wilmer
One Arizona Center
Phoenix, AZ 85004
ameyer@swlaw.com
PBGC - Harold J. Ashner
Keightley & Ashner LLP
700 12th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
haroldashner@keightleyashner.com
PBGC - Robert A. Miller
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
800 Superior Avenue, Suite 1400
Cleveland, OH 44114
rmiller@calfee.com
PBGC - Stu A. Sirkin
Executive Director, National Tax
Performance and Reward
Ernst & Young, LLP
1101 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Stu.Sirkin@EY.com
SEC - Mark Borges
Compensia Inc.
770 Tamalpais Drive, Suite 207
Corte Madera, CA 94925
mborges@compensia.com
The Agency Q & As have always been one of our most popular ABA activities. The success of this endeavor is directly dependent upon the number and quality of the questions which you provide. Thus, your questions are extremely important to the success of these meetings. The JCEB thanks you, in advance, for your active participation in this event.
