Frank, Marlene P.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Marlene Frank has significant experience in designing and implementing qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans for large organizations and professional corporations. She also has worked extensively with health care plans and other types of welfare benefit plans that generally are provided to employees of both for-profit and tax-exempt organizations.

Marlene's representative clients include Bon Secours Health System, Humility of Mary Health Partners, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, and ProMedica Health System. She regularly counsels these and other clients with respect to the employee benefits implications of acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures. Her experience is comprehensive, covering both the federal income tax implications relating to employee benefit plans and the ERISA requirements for such plans. Marlene also has significant experience with the employee benefit issues surrounding the design and implementation of health care integrated delivery systems and managed care contracting networks.

Marlene is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Columbus Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Health Care
• Compensation & Benefits Counseling for Employers
• ERISA Plan Asset Investments
• Tax-Exempt Entities & Church Plans
• Tax & Benefits/Health Care

Representative Cases

• Allegheny Health, nation's largest nonprofit healthcare company, files chapter 11 cases , (2009)
• Baird Capital Partners acquires controlling interest in Circuit Check
• Bon Secours seeks advice on IRS qualification issues, church plan issues 403(b) plans, 457 plans and sophisticated nondiscrimination testing issues and controlled group issues
• Bon Secours seeks advice on welfare benefit plan issues
• Humility of Mary Health Partners seeks advice on retirement and welfare plans
• International accounting and legal professional service partnerships seek advice on retirement and welfare benefits , (2009)
• Jewish Community Federation seeks advice on retirement and other issues
• Loyola University Health System integrates with Physician Foundation , (2009)
• National employer association seeks to create health insurance vehicle for uninsured
• ProMedica seeks advice on retirement benefits , (2009)
• Shelly Company acquired by Oldcastle, Inc.
• Shelly Company seeks advice on retirement plan matters
• University Community Hospital seeks advice on retirement plans
• Webster Manufacturing seeks advice on benefit issues
• Wolfe Industries seeks advice on benefit plans

West Practice Categories

Affirmative Action -- Employee, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Disability, Elder Law, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Food & Drug Administration, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Nursing Home, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, Social Security -- Disability, Taxation Law, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Ohio State University

Published Works

• Health Care Reform—Upcoming Effective Dates for Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans, 2010
• COBRA Strike 3: Another Extension of COBRA Subsidy, 2010
• New Regulations for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits: It's Complicated!, 2010
• Extension of COBRA Subsidy for Assistance Eligible Individuals, 2010
• Health Care Reform: House Bill Would Make It Nearly Impossible to Reduce Retiree Medical Benefits, 2009
• 2010 Open Enrollment Alert – Under GINA No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, 2009
• Warning to Employers: If Your Health Risk Assessment Violates GINA, You May Have to Tell the IRS (and Pay Excise Taxes), 2009
• Health Plan Open Enrollment Alert—No Reward Goes Unpunished, 2009
• Group Health Plan Continuation Coverage: Fast Action Required To Comply with New COBRA Premium Assistance Requirements, 2009
• An Impending Collision at the Intersection of Code Section 457 and Code Section 409A, 2007
• Medicare Part D Retiree Prescription Drug Coverage: Employer Options, 2005

Address

P.O. Box 165017
325 John H. McConnell Boulevard
Suite 600
Columbus, OH 43216-5017

Phones

1.614.281.3843 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.614.461.4198 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com