Compliance

The seminar will discuss understanding plan and fiduciary responsibilities; selecting and monitoring service providers; making timely contributions; and more. 

Discussion of 401(k) litigation often fails to draw important distinctions between different ERISA standards that pertain to fiduciary prudence and controlling plan costs, according to one reader of...

Among other things, the plaintiff alleges the plan committee ignored the numerous warning signs that Chesapeake was an imprudent investment for retirement assets, and allowed the plan to...

After agreeing with a district court that employees sold from Anheuser-Busch's controlled group of companies deserve enhanced pension benefits, the 8th Circuit remanded the case back to the...

The Department of Labor is seeking to offer assurance to advisers that it does not intend to enforce the fiduciary rule slated for implementation April 10, even if...

The amendments involve the presentation of net periodic pension cost and net periodic postretirement benefit cost.

An appellate court has remanded the case back to the district court to re-evaluate the calculation of damages.

In comment letters to the DOL, investment firms, retirement plan service providers and trade groups voice support for the decision to delay the implementation of the new fiduciary...

For claims alleging a fiduciary breach based on non-public information, the high court has held that plaintiffs must plausibly allege an alternative action fiduciaries could have taken and...

For one thing, a judge found plaintiffs' allegations concerning switching to a newly created Reliance Trust Company TDF were sufficient to state a claim.

While several church plan challenges wait on SCOTUS review, another has been settled.

An ERISA lawsuit filed against TIAA by employees of the University of Chicago and Nova Southeastern University has been dismissed by a federal judge, who ruled TIAA should...

All three lawsuits filed in New York district court argue the company improperly favored its own investment options within the retirement plan offered to workers; the firm flatly...

A coalition of advisers and providers is making the case on Capitol Hill that dialing back DOL guidance supporting state-run retirement savings programs for private sector workers is...

Service providers to tax-qualified 403(b) plans already have certain federally mandated conflict of interest reporting requirements, but the Connecticut State Legislature may also step up and play a...

GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate suggests it is a federal government overreach for DOL to encourage or require states to offer workplace retirement savings programs for...

JPMorgan Chase Bank is now the target of another ERISA challenge against its own 401(k) plan, this one leveling many of the same complaints against the company found...

Even if the DOL leadership under President Trump declines to enforce a strict fiduciary standard, private litigators will undoubtedly pick up any slack if the administration fails to...

The underlying complaint suggests the retention of American Century's proprietary mutual funds in its own 401(k) has cost plan participants millions of dollars in excess fees.

The Reporting and Disclosure Guide for Employee Benefit Plans was prepared by the IRS as a quick reference tool for certain basic reporting and disclosure requirements under ERISA...