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Consulting Services for the Qualified Plan Industry
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If you are having trouble finding am employee benefits answer - technical or
practical - Call the benefits "librarian," Mike Hughes at 727-460-2919
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Mr. Hughes has been a practicing ERISA and employee
benefits lawyer since August of 1975, less than one year after the ink
was dry on the landmark legislation known as ERISA, an acronym for The
Employee
Retirement
Income
Security
Act.
After starting his legal career as in house counsel for an
actuarial and benefits consulting firm, Mr. Hughes joined a growing
Pittsburgh law firm of eight attorneys and shortly became a partner
leading the firm’s premiere employee benefits practice representing
hundreds of benefit plan sponsors in cutting edge employee benefit
designs and in employee benefit controversies involving both government
enforcement agencies (IRS, DOL and PBGC) and private claims and
controversies. In 1994, Mr.
Hughes moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to continue his practice and
expand it to include many health care legal issues representing
physicians and hospitals and other health care providers in corporate
and business matters and in employee benefit cases related to the
delivery of health care through ERISA regulated group health plans.
From 1998 through 2009, Mr. Hughes continued his ERISA and
Benefits practice, mostly as a solo practitioner or special counsel
attorney, from locations in New Mexico, Pittsburgh and now St.
Petersburg, Florida, depending on the weather and the proximity of his 4
grandchildren.
While Mr. Hughes maintains an active license to practice
law and continues to consult with employee benefit stakeholders, his practice has now evolved primarily to a non-representational
and non-adversarial practice as an
Independent ERISA Fiduciary
and a dispute resolution
“neutral” acting as
an arbitrator, mediator or settlement facilitator in cases where the
depth of his ERISA subject matter experience coupled with his experience
and training as a unbiased neutral can lead to the prompt, fair and
economical resolution of ERISA and employee benefit disputes. Mr.
Hughes also publishes the web site ERISA.com and the web sites
dbkplan.com and
414(x).com
TO SCHEDULE AN ERISA DISPUTE
MEDIATION THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PARTIES SHOULD CALL MR. HUGHES
AT 727-460-2919
In his role as an
Independent ERISA
Fiduciary,
Mr. Hughes in neither formally nor informally
affiliated with any persons or organizations which earn revenues from
the investment or management of employee benefit plan assets.
He is not a “broker,” an “investment advisor” or
a “financial advisor.”
He sells nothing but his professional fiduciary
services on a pure “fee for service” basis – No commissions, rebates,
“revenue sharing” or other arrangements which would conflict with his
statutory duties as an ERISA fiduciary acting solely in the interest of
plan participants and beneficiaries.
To discuss the retention of Mr. Hughes as a Consultant, Neutral or Independent
Fiduciary, please email him at
planwiz@erisa.com or call for a no obligation discussion of your
needs at 727-460-2919.
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