John H. Eggertsen is the founder of Eggertsen & Associates, P.C. A former senior partner at the Detroit law firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, he has more than 30 years of experience representing private and public employers, pension plans, welfare plans, insurers, national service providers and employee benefits consultants.

A frequent author and speaker, Mr. Eggertsen has published more than 40 articles in national and regional journals and law reviews, and has lectured extensively in national and regional seminars and conferences on employee benefits. Mr. Eggertsen has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1987, and in 2001, became an inaugural Fellow of the American Bar Association's prestigious American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Mr. Eggertsen taught graduate-level employee benefits law courses at the Wayne State University for 15 years as an Adjunct Professor of Law.

Mr. Eggertsen received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1968 and received his law degree, with honors, from the University of Toledo in 1974. He received his L.L.M. in taxation in 1975 from New York University Law School.

Mr. Eggertsen is also a founding principal of Part D Advisors, Inc., a Medicare Part D consulting firm in Southfield, Michigan. The practice involves assisting companies with obtaining Medicare Part D subsidies, and associated procedures. www.partdadvisors.com

Michele Rivas recently joined Eggertsen & Associates. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Rivas practiced employee benefits law for eight years at major Detroit-based law firms, initially as an employee benefits specialist for five years and then as an associate benefits attorney.

Ms. Rivas is a magna cum laude  graduate from the Michigan State University College of Law.

Ms. Rivas' practice includes all facets of employee benefits law, including: (i) compliance and design of health and welfare plans (including cafeteria plans, STD/LTD plans, training programs, dependent care reimbursement accounts, FSAs, HSAs, and HRAs), (ii) MEWAs, (iii) representing employers, insurers and third-party administrators and limiting their potential exposure to benefit claims, (iv) counseling clients regarding compliance with the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA and other federal and state law matters that arise in the administration of employee benefit plans, and (v) compliance and design of qualified retirement plans.