Increasingly, the courts are eroding the rights of pension and medical plan participants and beneficiaries. Examples include the right to pensions upon divorce, the remedies that participants can recover when an employer lies to them, and the pervasive preemptive effect of ERISA.

To learn more:

Betrayed Without a Remedy (reprinted from Texas Tech Law Review)

A Framework for Developing a Common Law of ERISA (reprinted from NYU Institute on Federal Taxation)

Into the Black Hole of Preemption (reprinted from the Journal of Pension Planning & Compliance)

ERISA for General Practitioners (reprinted from Texas Tech Law Review)

ERISA Litigation is available from BNA Books.

Here is a sample chapter from First Edition.