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Address: 800 Troy-Schenectady Road, 2nd Floor, latham, NY, 12110-2424
Law Firm: Blitman & King LLP
Phone: 518-785-4387
Fax: 518-785-9264
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Website: http://www.bklawyers.com
| Title | Partner |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Taxation |
| Description | Ginger B. LaChapelle is the co-chair of Blitman & King’s Employee Benefits Practice Group and chair of the Cybersecurity Law Practice Group. She has broad experience counseling sponsors of multiemployer and single-employer plans, companies, tax-exempt entities, and executives on all matters of tax, ERISA, and cybersecurity and data breach protection compliance. Ginger also regularly advises public plans on compliance with applicable state and federal laws. Ginger advises on the design, operation, and applicable qualification requirements of all types of retirement and welfare benefit plans including compliance with HIPAA/HITECH, the Affordable Care Act, COBRA, FMLA, USERRA, MHPA/MHPAEA, PPA, and Internal Revenue Code compliance (including with sections 457(f) and 409A).She is a frequent public speaker on wide range of employee benefits plan related topics, including cybersecurity, compliance with federal mandates, and investment fees and expense. Ginger also has significant experience handling ERISA controversies including benefits litigation and governmental investigations. She has represented plan fiduciaries in breach claims, benefit plan overpayment recovery litigation, and in U.S. Department of Labor investigations alleging statutory violations. She has also handled audits conducted by the Internal Revenue Service. Ginger is a member of the IFEBP’s Affordable Care Act Expert Panel, a contributing author of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law’s treatise, Employee Benefits Law, Union Co-Chair of the Regulation of Specialized Types of Retirement Income Plans subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Joint Committee of Employee Benefits, and the ABA Joint Committee of Employee Benefits co-liaison (scrivener) to the Department of Labor, and a member of the HHS Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity CSA 405(d) Task Group. Speaking Engagements October 2019, American Bar Association ERISA Basics National Institute ‘ERISA Basics’ The New York State United Teachers Member Benefits Conference 2019 – ‘Considerations Involved in Establishing a Welfare Benefit Trust’ Blitman & King ERISA Seminar 2018 – ‘Cybersecurity Redux’ Blitman & King Labor Law Seminar 2018 — ‘The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017’ October 2017, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Annual Conference ‘Retirement Plan Fees for the Public Sector’ September 2017, American Bar Association JCEB CLE ‘Cybersecurity: Data and Asset Protection Duties of ERISA Fiduciaries’ July 2017, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans ‘Health Benefit Plan Basics’ Blitman & King ERISA Seminar 2017 ‘Benefit Fund Cybersecurity’ Blitman & King Labor Seminar 2017 ‘GOP Affordable Care Act Replacement Proposals’ American Bar Association 2017 JCEB Annual Meetings ‘Retirement Plan Fees 2.0’ Blitman & King ERISA Seminar 2016 ‘Affordable Care Act Updates’ Blitman & King Labor Seminar 2016 ‘Health Reimbursement Accounts’ Blitman & King ERISA Seminar 2015 ‘Affordable Care Act Reporting and Disclosure Requirements’ Blitman & King Labor Seminar 2015 ‘Recovering ERISA Plan Overpayments’ Blitman & King ERISA Seminar 2014 ‘HIPAA Health Plan Identifier Number and Certification of Compliance with Standard Transactions Requirements Rules’ June 2014, New York State Bar Association Public Sector Relations Law CLE – ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Update: What Public Employers and Labor Need to Know’ American Bar Association 2009 JCEB Annual Meetings ‘Health Reform Compliance’ Blitman & King Labor Seminar 2013 ‘ The HIPAA Final Omnibus Rule’ Blitman & King Employee Benefits Seminar 2012 ‘Health Reform: 2014 and Beyond’ The New York State United Teachers 2010 & 2012 Member Benefits Conferences ‘Health Reform Update’ and ‘FMLA: The Basics’ American Bar Association 2011 Joint Committee of Employee Benefits Annual Meetings ‘Multiemployer Plans and Funding Issues’ Blitman & King Employee Benefits Seminar 2011 ‘Fee Disclosure in Participant Directed Individual Account Plans’ Blitman & King Labor Seminar 2011 ‘The Small Employer Tax Credit’ The New York Employee Benefits Conference 2010 Meeting ‘Fee Disclosure in Participant Directed 401(k)/403(b)/Profit Sharing and Other Individual Account Plans’ Blitman & King Employee Benefits Seminar 2010 ‘Investment Advice to Participants and Beneficiaries: Proposed Regulations’ American Bar Association 2009 JCEB Annual Meetings ‘403(b) Developments’ and ‘Tax Compliance: Qualified Plan Tax Compliance Problems and What to do About Them’ Blitman & King Employee Benefits Seminar 2009 ‘Final Regulations under the Mental Health Addiction Equity Act’ and ‘Michelle’s Law’ |
Working for a better workplace since 1933, Blitman & King LLP concentrates on the exclusive representation of labor organizations, fringe benefit fund and employees. We represent pension plans, health and welfare plans, apprentice plans and other trust funds which provide fringe benefits to employees. We also represent employee benefits plans and individuals in compensation matters, including plan administration and design, and design of individu…
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