Tag: ERISA

Those who were wondering when—or perhaps if—the issues raised in those revenue-sharing lawsuits would ever actually be tried got a strong, affirmative response last week.

About a week ago, Caterpillar agreed to a $16.5 million settlement of one of those allegedly excessive fee/revenue-sharing lawsuits.

A group of employee benefits lawyers led by Paul M. Hamburger have left McDermott Will & Emery’s Washington, D.C. office to establish the D.C. employee benefits practice of...

QVC officials have completed their investigation into alleged employee misconduct in taking 401(k) loans, but declined to say if they found any fraud or if any workers had...

When it comes to qualified retirement plans, there are three kinds of people: people who are fiduciaries and know it, people who aren’t fiduciaries and know...

A woman accused of stealing from a co-worker’s 401(k) account has been sentenced to a one-year jail term.

Wachovia Bank did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) when it sent a form letter to investors notifying them of a fund's merger with another...

U.S. Supreme Court justices have agreed to consider an appeal of a case involving the method used by the Xerox Corp. pension plan to figure out how much...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is taking its compliance seminar series to Atlanta.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the sponsor of a master plan to strike a clause in its plan documents relieving the trustee of the duty to...

The owner of defunct Concord, North Carolina, sign firm has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $57,089 to the company’s 401(k) and health plans.

Plan fiduciaries looking for insights about their responsibilities can now get that information from the Labor Department without leaving their desks.