Beth A. Mandel

Beth is an associate in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice group. She focuses her practice on assisting private and public employers with the design, implementation and operation of welfare and fringe benefit plans. She has significant experience advising employers, plan sponsors, and third party service providers on ongoing Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act compliance and focuses on providing practical advice while helping plan sponsors to update plan documents, addressing cafeteria plan, flexible spending account, and health savings account design and administration issues, guiding health plan sponsors through HIPAA privacy and security compliance, consulting on claims litigation, reviewing and negotiating service provider agreements, and assisting with a host of other welfare benefit matters.  Beth also counsels clients on issues related to tax-qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, profit-sharing plans, 403(b) plans and defined benefit plans, and 409A compliance. Additionally, she has experience counseling clients on various benefits issues arising from corporate transactions and assisting spun off companies and business units to establish stand-alone benefit plans and operations.

Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Beth worked for another Ohio firm where she gained a strong background in labor and employment and employee benefits and compensation law. Before that, she served for eight years as a judicial clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for the Hon. Susan J. Dlott, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law for five years.