Compliance Services
Keeping Compliance Manageable
Trying to keep up and comply with state and federal employee benefit
regulations can be daunting. The rules' complexities--and the risks and
consequences of noncompliance--grow ever larger. Lockton provides valuable,
prompt and practical compliance assistance to its clients through direct
contact with our compliance attorneys, publications, email alerts, seminars
and more.
Our Dedicated Resources
We stay atop new laws and regulations and endeavor to understand not just
the rules, but how they'll affect our clients on a practical level. Then our
Benefit teams--including our compliance professionals--work with our clients
to keep them apprised of the rules that affect them, and to efficiently and
pragmatically resolve their compliance issues.
Tailored Solutions
Legislation like HIPAA, COBRA, USERRA and the Medicare Modernization Act has
heightened the anxiety level of many HR departments. Already asked to do more
with fewer resources, HR departments must now ensure the separation of health
plan and employment information, ensure the privacy of that information,
comply with more than a dozen notice obligations (requiring notice to
different persons, at different times, in different ways) and more. Our
Benefits team will analyze your situation and provide solutions and
suggestions tailored to help you ensure proper compliance with applicable
requirements.
Legal Counsel
Please note that our compliance attorneys are not your legal counsel and may
not supply you with legal opinions. Communications with the attorneys are not
privileged under the attorney client privilege. In addition, to comply with
regulations issued by the IRS concerning the provision of written advice
regarding issues that concern or relate to federal tax liability, unless
otherwise expressly reflected therein, any written advice provided to you by
our compliance attorneys that concerns federal tax issues is not written,
offered or intended to be used, and cannot be used, by anyone for the purpose
of avoiding federal tax penalties that may be imposed by the IRS or promoting,
marketing or recommending to another party any matters addressed in the
document.