Compliance

The U.S. Tax Court upheld a decision by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and its employee stock ownership trust (ESOT) are not...

After filing an amended complaint, participants of Medtronic Inc.’s retirement plan failed to convince the court that the company breached its fiduciary duties by continuing to offer company...

A federal judge in New York rejected claims that plan fiduciaries are immunized against stock drop suits if the plan mandates company stock investments; a decision not commonly...

Former owners of a St. Paul, Minnesota, business services company are jointly liable for repaying losses to the company’s retirement plan after they used plan assets to pay...

A former employee of American International Group Inc. filed a lawsuit claiming PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P. was negligent in its audits of AIG and failed to pursue a claim against...

A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered Alliant Energy Corp. to use an 8.2% interest rate when it carries out lump-sum distributions from its cash balance program.

In a live Web chat discussing the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration’s (EBSA) Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis C. Borzi said the Agency will...

Looks like the New Year is going to kick off on a litigious note.  

Steven Rattner, former founding principal of private equity firm Quadrangle Group and former Obama administration "car czar," has agreed to a $10 million settlement of pension pay-to-play charges...

A federal judge has issued an order involving damages in a cash balance lawsuit – and it could be bigger than anticipated. 

Savannah, Georgia-based Memorial Health will suspend its matching contributions to employees’ retirement accounts for at least a year, beginning February 1. 

The Internal Revenue Service has issued Revenue Ruling 2011-3 with the table of covered compensation for the 2011 plan year.

A lawyer accused of financial wrongdoing should receive a 401(k) distribution of his plan savings from his old law firm, but not the employer’s contributions, a federal judge...

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has cleared the way for a 401(k) participant to pursue his claim that plan trustees violated their fiduciary duties.

Federal officials have issued a corrected document on final regulations for hybrid defined benefit plans since a previous version contained errors “that may prove to be misleading and...

A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Alcatel-Lucent USA did not breach its Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) fiduciary duties through its severance plan disclosures to four...

A 401(k) participant claimed Morgan Stanley caused significant losses to his account after his request to move money out of the stock market was not acted upon. 

Those scrambling to deal with the potential implications of a change in tax rates may find the 2010 Tax Relief Act to be aptly named.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a March 2011 hearing on a proposed rule changing the scope of the term “fiduciary.”

A federal judge has given final approval to an $8.5 million settlement of a long-running stop drop lawsuit.