Catholic Benefits Law
Our Benefits Law Practice
Our benefits practice focuses on advising Catholic Archdioceses, Dioceses, Religious Orders, sponsored ministries, and educational institutions on Church Plan and employee benefits issues arising in the context of both lay employee and religious coverage, including both retired and active status.
Our core competency is focused maximizing plan effectiveness. We are committed to managing our client’s Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in a professional and precise manner to ensure that all vendors and carriers are providing exactly what you want, at the very best possible cost.
Eric Allen Kauk, Esq., LL.M
Eric earned both Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Accounting from Saint Leo University. Eric earned a law degree from Stetson University College of Law and has an advanced Tax Law degree (LL.M.) from The Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. (the #2-ranked Tax Law program in the U.S.). Eric is grateful to serve as Employee Benefits Of Counsel for the Catholic Benefits Association. He also serves the National Catholic Bioethics Center, providing ERISA, employee benefits, and church plan legal consults to the center and its clients.
Experience Fighting For The Church
Eric holds educational and professional distinction in three key areas: Accounting, Insurance, and Benefits Law. Eric is an accountant by education, a licensed and experienced insurance agent, and a licensed attorney. This unique combination of perspectives allows Eric to provide meaningful and practical advice that clients can immediately use to improve their benefits plans in several ways.
Eric advises clients on the design and implementation of benefits arrangements with a focus on Church Plans that achieve both federal and state regulatory and canonical compliance.
Eric’s clients benefit from his fifteen years of experience managing RFP responses and the implementation and renewal of myriad benefits products. Eric has also spent more than a decade building relationships that can facilitate the establishment of offshore reinsurance and captive insurance arrangements for employers both large and small. Eric is widely published on both social issues and Catholic benefits issues in publications like the Harvard Law & Policy Review and Rutgers Law Record. Eric has been an active volunteer and board member of numerous charitable organizations including the American Red Cross, Make-A-Wish foundation, and local non-profit food pantries in the greater Tampa area.
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