{"id":863,"date":"2015-11-23T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=863"},"modified":"2022-06-05T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T01:45:35","slug":"erisa-preemption-is-broad-and-may-eliminate-your-rights-under-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/erisa-preemption-is-broad-and-may-eliminate-your-rights-under-state-law\/","title":{"rendered":"ERISA Preemption Is Broad and May Eliminate Your Rights Under State Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this year, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a reminder about the harshness of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act\u2019s (\u201cERISA\u201d) personal liability provisions, and the broad preemption under ERISA in its decision in\u00a0<em>Rodrigues v. United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO<\/em>. Without taking adequate service providers and proper insurance coverage, an employer can be personally liable for steep penalties and judgments for lawsuits under ERISA. For details, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/pdfs\/ESA_Memo_re_Hawaii_Supreme_Court_ERISA_Liability.pdf\"><em>Hawaii Supreme Court \u2013 ERISA Preemption Is Broad and May Eliminate Your Rights Under State Law<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/staff\/anna-elento-sneed\"><strong>Anna Elento-Sneed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/staff\/ryan-loeffers\"><strong>Ryan Loeffers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the Hawaii Supreme Court issued a reminder about the harshness of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act\u2019s (\u201cERISA\u201d) personal liability provisions, and the broad preemption under ERISA in its decision in\u00a0Rodrigues v. United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO. Without taking adequate service providers and proper insurance coverage, an employer can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}