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Ashley Gillihan

Counsel


Ashley Gillihan is counsel in the Atlanta office and a member of the firm's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation Groups. Mr. Gillihan focuses his practice exclusively on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. He also has extensive experience assisting financial institutions and insurance companies who serve as Health Savings Account trustees or custodians.

Mr. Gillihan is active in publishing and speaking on various health and welfare benefit plan related topics and serves as a faculty member and/or technical advisor for several health and welfare benefit plan focused organizations.

Ashley is a member of the Employer’s Council on Flexible Compensation (ECFC) Technical Advisory Council and the board of editors for the Benefits and Compensation Law Alert, published by M. Lee Smith Publishers. He was named to the Benefits Committee for the Self-Insurance Institute of America, Inc. and served from 2007-2008. He is also a faculty member for the Institute for Applied Management and Law (IAML), and is the primary author of the Flexible Benefits Answer Book published by Aspen Publishers.

Representative Experience

  • Counsel to several large, national employer/plan sponsors with multiple union and non-union health and welfare plans.
  • Counsel to several third-party administrators who perform a wide range of services from flexible spending account administrator to administration of comprehensive health plans.
  • Counsel to several financial institutions and other financial related entities which serve as Health Savings Account custodians or trustees.


Publications
June 2009
"Implementation Deadline Approaches for New Federal Mental Health and Substance Abuse Mandates," The Self-Insurer, June 2009.
May 2009
"Stimulus Act Imposed Increased HIPAA Obligation on Health Benefit Plans and Service Providers," The Self-Insurer, May 2009.
April 2009
"Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009," The Self-Insurer, April 2009.

Ashley Gillihan

One Atlantic Center
1201 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30309-3424
Phone: 404-881-7390
Fax: 404-253-8598

Education

  • Samford University
    (J.D., 1996)
  • Western Kentucky University
    (B.A., 1993)

Admitted to Practice

  • Georgia
  • Tennessee
  • Alabama