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Preventive steps put employers on safer legal ground. (employee benefits)(1998 RIMS Report)

By Kazel, Robert
Publication: Business Insurance
Date: Monday, May 4 1998

SAN DIEGO - Employers that think they have a firm legal footing in today's benefits environment should beware: The ground below may be quicksand.

Legal challenges facing even knowledgeable and well-meaning plan sponsors have increased multifold as the benefits world has grown more complicated, two experts told a group of benefits and risk executives last week at the Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc.'s annual conference in San Diego.

Robert N. Sandler, a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul and a specialist in employment law, an

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