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Magan Pritam Ray, Co-Chair of the Global Employee Benefits & Compensation Practice, has wide-ranging experience in all facets of employee benefits and ERISA matters, including the design, implementation and operation of retirement plans, health and welfare benefit plans, cafeteria plans, fringe benefit plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation programs. Magan focuses on counseling clients on the business impact, strategic response, plan design and compliance with the evolving legal requirements and industry changes impacting health care. Magan regularly advises Fortune 100 companies on issues in mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and joint ventures. Magan also has experience in representing companies undergoing employee benefits and tax audits before the IRS and Department of Labor.

In addition to her employment counseling practice, Magan serves as the Co-Chair of the Greenberg Traurig Asian Affinity Group.

It seems no region of California has been spared from wildfires or the threat of wildfires in 2020. The one-two punch of scorching wildfires and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has
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On May 2, 2014, the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the Department of Labor (DOL) released proposed regulations, which contain changes to the existing COBRA notice requirements. These changes are intended to incorporate applicable provisions under the Affordable Care Act into the COBRA notice requirements. The proposed regulations provide updated versions of the model general notice and model election notice forms, which are available in modifiable, electronic form on the DOL’s website at dol.gov/ebsa/cobra.html. Employers should consider using the updated model notices (modified, as needed, to fit the employer’s particular situation) on a going-forward basis because the DOL will consider the use of the model notices to be good faith compliance with the notice content requirements under COBRA.
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