ERISA Collection

The Previant Law Firm, S.C. has a full-time Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) collection practice to collect delinquent fringe benefit contributions on behalf of multi-employer health, pension, and training funds among others. We represent funds throughout the upper Midwest, including funds sponsored on behalf of the Carpenters, Bricklayers, Laborers, Painters, Sheet Metal Workers, Electrical Workers, Teamsters, Roofers, and others. Our labor law practice is nationally recognized, serving as local counsel for many of the International funds located in Washington, D.C.

About Our ERISA Lawyers
All of our collection counsel is licensed to practice in Wisconsin and are fully versed in the local lien and garnishment laws. We regularly collect between $3 and $5 million in delinquent contributions, interest, and damages on an annual basis, providing a return to our clients of more than $5 for every dollar spent by the Funds. The collection team also regularly attends Trustee meetings and provides written and oral reports on outstanding delinquency cases and related issues.

As Trustees of ERISA multi-employer fringe benefit funds are charged by law with the duty to take “reasonable, systematic and diligent” efforts to collect outstanding delinquencies owed to their members and participants, our firm regularly provides legal services to meet that standard.
Our ERISA services include:

Review, development, and implementation of collection policies and procedures
Audit programs
Administrative follow-up
Aggressive use of lien notices and claims under the Wisconsin construction lien law
Assertion of bond claims where applicable
Negotiation of amenable payment terms with delinquent employers within Department of Labor guidelines
Protection of fund claims in bankruptcy proceedings and execution of judgments

ERISA Collection

ERISA Collection

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