Caroline E.Pieper

Associate

Caroline helps clients stay compliant with laws and regulations that affect employee benefits, while finding new, innovative ways to meet her clients’ immediate and long-term needs.


More About Caroline

Caroline focuses her practice on health and welfare benefit plans, ancillary benefits, and the laws and regulations affecting these plans and related programs. Among other things, Caroline counsels clients on plan documentation, fiduciary issues, mental health parity, health care reform, COBRA, HIPAA, flexible benefits, wellness programs, price transparency, and more. Not only does she handle legal matters for both fully insured and self-funded plans, she also routinely manages plan administration, design, documentation, and implementation for both single employer and multiemployer plans. Caroline assists in drafting, revising, and negotiating service provider agreements; ensuring disclosure and reporting compliance to government agencies and individuals; and facilitating both internal and external audits of benefit plans.

Caroline further counsels her clients on all HIPAA- and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act-related matters. She performs client-tailored HIPAA training; drafts, revises, and negotiates business associate agreements; drafts and implements HIPAA policies and procedures; performs breach analyses; assists in breach notification; and ensures compliance with other federal and state laws relating to privacy and security of health-related data.

Caroline began her legal career in employee benefits and has enhanced her practice over time through representation of nationally recognized, local, and global employers, third-party administrators, health care providers, wellness vendors, insurance companies, accountants, brokers, and individuals. Her experience representing a variety of entities has provided her with a well-rounded understanding of all of the issues impacting an agreement, plan, or benefit offering. She works with her clients to achieve satisfactory results that meet both their immediate and long-term needs.

  • JD, Notre Dame Law School
    Magna cum laude
  • BS, Boston College
    Political Science and Hispanic Studies
  • Illinois
  • Nebraska
  • US District Court, District of Nebraska