This nationally acclaimed annual program highlights the most important developments from 2016, examines the changes afoot in Washington, and offers forward-looking guidance to help your clients make the right decisions for 2017 and beyond.
The law affecting retirement and benefit plans changes year after year. Regulators, Congress, the courts, and individual states constantly reshape the legal landscape for employee benefits. And with a new administration and Congress, even more changes look certain to lie ahead. Every year, American Law Institute CLE has been in the forefront in assembling a faculty of the nation’s foremost legal experts to address those legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments with authority.
Featuring presentations from top private practitioners and current and former government speakers, this is one employee benefits conference you will not want to miss!
Attend The Year in Employee Benefits 2017 for both cutting-edge and practical information on the most important developments in employee benefits to have emerged from the past year – legislative, regulatory, and judicial – as well as a look ahead at what may be next, including new trends in benefits and compensation, impending deadlines, anticipated guidance, and upcoming court rulings.
8:30 am Using the New IRS RAP Rules – Mr. Utz
9:15 am PBGC’s Priorities and Direction – Mr. Reeder
10:00 am Quick Hit: New Actuarial Equivalence Regulations – Mr. Godofsky
10:15 am Networking and Refreshment Break
10:30 am Defining an Accrued Benefit and a Definitely Determinable Benefit - At Last – Mr. Godofsky
11:15 am Living in the New EPCRS World – Mr. Schendt and Ms. Tavares
12:15 pm Questions and Answers
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