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Personal Liability for COBRA Penalties Extends Only to ERISA Plan Administrators
Thomson Reuters / EBIA Mar. 29, 2018
"The court noted that the company's benefits brochure provided the name of the health insurer and directed employees to contact the employer's human resources department to provide notice of a COBRA qualifying event. The brochure did not list the owners as contacts, and the employee presented no evidence that the owners were designated as ERISA plan administrators. The court concluded, therefore, that the owners could not be held personally liable for any failure to notify the employee of his COBRA rights." [Abdelmassih v. Mitra QSR KNE LLC, No. 16-4941 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 28, 2018)]
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