Tag: ERISA

A district court granted summary judgment to OSF Healthcare System, but the 7th Circuit found there are genuine issues of material law that warrant more discovery in the...

A three-judge panel concluded that a precedent-setting appellate decision which held that ERISA claims are not arbitrable is “no longer good law” in light of interim Supreme Court...

Retirement plan fiduciaries at Intel are accused of exposing investors to bets on speculative areas of the markets.

As a general rule, “Doe pleading” is disfavored in federal court. However, the practice is not entirely forbidden, particularly where the identities of alleged defendants are unknown.

Among other things, a federal court judge found the director of benefits at Kaleida Health and the retirement plan committee of its 403(b) and 401(k) plans were fiduciaries.

John Hopkins University will settle a long-standing ERISA lawsuit—one of a number of virtually identical cases filed in district courts across the country by Schlichter, Bogard and Denton.

Using other court decisions, including one from the Supreme Court, the medical center's plan was found to fall under the "church plan" definition in ERISA.

A federal court has rejected the argument that defendants were aware that their predecessor fiduciaries had breached their duties in selecting affiliated funds and thus that they breached...

Among other elements, Title IV of ERISA is used to determine liability for PBGC termination premiums.

The Supreme Court will weigh in on the question of whether an adequately funded pension that is not in immediate danger of insolvency could have wronged participants and...

As the complaint points out, the Society of Actuaries has published some five updates to its mortality assumptions since the mortality table used by defendants was published way...

The affirmation once again shows how influential has been the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision known as Fifth Third v. Dudenhoeffer. It also presents an interpretation of how Fifth...

The ERISA fiduciary duty requires fiduciaries to act with prudence, not prescience, a court said.

Crucial to the case is the fact that the pension plan is not facing insolvency, raising the question of whether retirees can prove concrete harms occurred which are...

In addition to a multi-million dollar monetary settlement, MFS has agreed to certain plan design changes moving forward.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does not actually define "actual knowledge" required by participants who file fiduciary breach cases, and U.S. Circuit Courts are split on...