Richmond attorneys  Maria Rasmussen and  Robert Wynne co-authored an October 2014 Employee Benefit Plan Review article titled "Is Deferred Compensation Exempt from ERISA? Maybe or Maybe Not ... ." In this article, Maria and Robert analyze Tolbert v. RBC Capital Markets Corporation, a recent case out of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, to illustrate that deferred compensation programs must satisfy requirements both for Internal Revenue Code Section 409A and for ERISA. The full text of the article is available to subscribers in print format only.

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