Tag: ERISA

The tools can help retirement plan sponsor clients manage their fiduciary responsibilities.

The appellate court maintained that, under ERISA, a church plan must be established by a church, and Advocate Health Care Network's DB plan was not.

Trusted ERISA attorneys Fred Reish and Brad Campbell, of Drinker Biddle and Reath, cut through some of the “mishmash of conflicting rumor and speculation” surrounding the forthcoming final...

The Republican party is still attempting to shoot down the fiduciary rule—almost certainly in vain.

Senator Johnny Isakson has introduced legislation designed to foil the fiduciary rule and amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a direct (but not necessarily pivotal) role in shaping many of the SCOTUS decisions tracked in recent years by the...

The Pension Resource Institute is making its RetirementAdvantage program available to registered investment advisers that work with TD Ameritrade Institutional.

The newly emerged text of President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed funding over the next decade to encourage wider use of...

After seeing their pension risk transfer lawsuits dismissed in both district and circuit court, tens of thousands of former Verizon employees hope SCOTUS will have more sympathy. 

The Republican-dominated House of Representative’s ongoing effort to halt the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rulemaking is starting to look a lot like its previous attempts to gut the...

ERISA expert discusses the significant implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Montanile v. Board of Trustees, especially as it pertains to enforcing liens on retirement or health...

The Obama administration intends to extend workplace access to a retirement savings opportunity to more than 30 million Americans.

The Supreme Court returned Amgen’s ESOP case to the lower court for a second time.

A former SunEdison employee is suing the company, a raft of its directors and State Street Bank for continuing to offer SunEdison stock in the retirement plan.

A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court seems to limit the ability of ERISA plans to seek equitable relief or reimbursement of payments from a third-party recovery—especially...

The Supreme Court has denied a petition to review a case about restriction-of-venue clauses in retirement plan documents related to ERISA challenges—based not on the weakness of appellees’...

A lawsuit brought by participants in JP Morgan’s 401(k) plan alleging imprudence in keeping company stock in the plan was dismissed under the new Supreme Court standard.