Trump’s PBGC Head Could Reshape Bailout for Union Pension Plans - Israel Goldowitz, Bloomberg Law, March 17, 2025 (PDF)
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The Wagner Law Group’s Washington, D.C. Office: Experience, Savvy, And Leadership
The Wagner Law Group’s Washington, D.C. Office has continued to grow, adding Michael Schloss, EBSA’s former Director of Enforcement and before that a career ERISA litigator with the Office of the...
How Employee Benefits Rules May Fare in the Post-‘Chevron’ World
How Employee Benefits Rules May Fare in the Post-‘Chevron’ World - Israel Goldowitz, Bloomberg Tax, August 15, 2024 (PDF)
12 Attorneys from The Wagner Law Group to be Recognized in 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
12 Attorneys from The Wagner Law Group to be Recognized in 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America© - The Wagner Law Group Press Release, Marcia Wagner, Thomas Clark, Jr., Andrew Oringer, Harold...
PBGC Nominee to Navigate Concerns Over Agency’s Pension Bailouts
PBGC Nominee to Navigate Concerns Over Agency’s Pension Bailouts - Israel Goldowitz, Bloomberg Tax, August 7, 2024 (PDF)
Are Insolvency Laws Contributing to the Death of Single Employer DB Plans?
Are Insolvency Laws Contributing to the Death of Single Employer DB Plans? - Israel Goldowitz, Panelist, 19th Biennial IPEBLA Conference, Milan, Italy, May 26 - 29, 2024 - Click here for details
ERISA at 50: How We Got Here and Where Employee Benefits Law is Headed
ERISA at 50: How We Got Here and Where Employee Benefits Law is Headed - Israel Goldowitz, panelist, Worldwide Employee Benefits Network live and virtual seminar, New York, NY, June 20, 2024, 3:00 -...
Court Upholds PBGC Denial of Special Financial Assistance to a Terminated Multiemployer Plan
By Israel Goldowitz In March 2021, Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which authorized the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to provide taxpayer-funded special financial...
Employee Benefits In Bankruptcy: Update On Key Issues
Employee Benefits In Bankruptcy: Update On Key Issues - Israel Goldowitz and Dannae Delano, AIRA Journal Vol. 36, No. 4, 2023
Highlights of 2023 PBGC Meeting With ABA’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits
By Harold Ashner and Israel Goldowitz On September 11, 2023, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) posted a summary of the May 3, 2023, meeting between representatives of the Pension Benefit Guaranty...
Why Some Ex-Workers at Bed Bath & Beyond Face 401(k) Losses
Why Some Ex-Workers at Bed Bath & Beyond Face 401(k) Losses - Israel Goldowitz, New York Times, September 9, 2023 (PDF)
11 Attorneys from The Wagner Law Group to be Recognized in 2024 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
Boston, MA, August 17, 2023 – The Wagner Law Group, widely recognized as the country’s top ERISA and employee benefits law firm, is delighted to announce that 11 of its attorneys will be recognized...
3 Takeaways From The PBGC’s Latest Fiscal Health Checkup
3 Takeaways From The PBGC's Latest Fiscal Health Checkup - Israel Goldowitz, Law360, August 4, 2023 (PDF)
Withdrawal Liability Interest Rate Assumptions: The Battle Continues
Withdrawal Liability Interest Rate Assumptions: The Battle Continues - Israel Goldowitz, Bloomberg Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, April 7, 2023
DOL Rule Permits Consideration of Climate and ESG Factors and Codifies Proxy Voting Responsibilities
By Stephen Wilkes, Izzy Goldowitz and John Sohn On November 22, 2022, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule modernizing and revising the long-standing Investment Duties Regulation....
Pension Investing and Climate Change
Pension Investing and Climate Change - Israel Goldowitz, Presenter, 12th Annual Employee Benefits and Social Insurance Conference Boston University School of Law, November 4 - 5, 2022, Boston, MA -...
Pension Issues in Restructuring and Bankruptcy
Pension Issues in Restructuring and Bankruptcy - Israel Goldowitz, Panelist, 21st Annual Advance Restructuring & Plan of Reorganization Conference, November 14, 2022, New York, NY
Working With the PBGC
Working With the PBGC - Israel Goldowitz, Panelist, Conference of Consulting Actuaries 2022 Annual Meeting, October 16 - 19, 2022, Austin, TX
Nine Attorneys from The Wagner Law Group to be Recognized in 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
Boston, MA, August 18, 2022 – The Wagner Law Group, widely recognized as the country’s top ERISA and employee benefits law firm, is delighted to announce that nine of its attorneys will be...
Multiemployer Plan Developments: PBGC Final Rule on Special Financial Assistance and Withdrawal Liability Actuarial Assumptions Litigation
By Dannae Delano and Israel Goldowitz On July 8, 2022, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (“PBGC”) issued its Final Rule (the “Final Rule”) implementing the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021...
Important Pension Issues Likely to Surface: Webinar
Important Pension Issues Likely to Surface - Israel Goldowitz and Stephen Wilkes, panelists, American Bankruptcy Institute webinar, June 13, 2022 - Click here for details
The Wagner Law Group Now Has 11 Fellows of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel – A Nationwide High
We are very proud to share that our firm now includes 11 Fellows of the prestigious American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Fellows of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel...
Entire Keightley & Ashner Team to Join The Wagner Law Group
We are ecstatic to announce that the entire team from Keightley & Ashner, the nation’s premier PBGC-focused law firm, will be joining our Washington, D.C. office, where partner and former PBGC...
Is PBGC Adding “Early Warning” and “Follow-On” to its Toolbox for Multiemployer Plans?
By Israel Goldowitz Corporate sponsors of defined benefit pension plans may be familiar with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) Early Warning program and its Follow-on policy. Under...
Retirement Plans in Bankruptcy
Retirement Plans in Bankruptcy - Thomas Clark, Jr., Israel Goldowitz and Jordan Mamorsky, Thomson Reuters Practical Law, November 5, 2021
What Mandatory Auto-Enrollment IRAs Actually Mean
What Mandatory Auto-Enrollment IRAs Actually Mean - Izzy Goldowitz, Mark Greenstein and Jon Schultze, 401(k) Specialist, October 16, 2021 (PDF)
Being Smart About M&A-Related Benefit Plan and Employment Issues
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