Compliance July 26th, 2021 401(a) Plan Sponsor’s Use of Asset Allocation Solution Challenged in Lawsuit The suit says the solution directed participant contributions into high-cost investments.
Compliance June 11th, 2021 ERISA Excessive Fee Lawsuit Filed Against Generac Power Systems The complaint includes allegations similar to those in many suits filed over the past few years.
Compliance June 10th, 2021 Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Sued Over 403(b) Plan Fees The lawsuit says plan fiduciaries failed to ensure reasonable investment fees and mismanaged revenue sharing to pay for administrative expenses.
Compliance June 9th, 2021 Estee Lauder Excessive Fee Suit Moves to Pretrial Conference A district court judge has denied the defense’s motion to dismiss without offering any explanations for his reasoning in court documents.
Compliance June 9th, 2021 Judge Moves Forward Some Claims in Excessive Fee Suit, Rejects Others A judge found there was no evidence that fiduciaries of B. Braun Medical's retirement plan violated ERISA's duty of loyalty,...
Compliance June 1st, 2021 U.S. Asks Supreme Court to Weigh In on Excessive Fee Claims U.S. attorneys argue the Court of Appeals’ decision in a case against Northwestern University is incorrect and conflicts with decisions...
Compliance May 24th, 2021 Columbia University Agrees to Settle Excessive Fee Suit for $13 Million The settlement agreement also includes non-monetary provisions related to bids for administrative services and share class selections for investments.
Compliance May 11th, 2021 Bronson Healthcare Group Sued Over 403(b) Plan Fees The lawsuit alleges fiduciary breaches related to ensuring reasonable administrative and investment fees.
Compliance May 7th, 2021 KeyCorp Succeeds in Getting Some Claims Dismissed in Excessive Fee Suit A court dismissed claims regarding KeyCorp plan’s stable value fund option but moved forward some claims regarding excessive administrative and...
Compliance May 3rd, 2021 Lawsuit Says Changes to University of Tampa 403(b) Plan Made Too Late The complaint says fees charged to participants in the plan were "grossly excessive" because they were not based on the...
Compliance April 19th, 2021 Lawsuit Challenges Fees in Kimberly-Clark’s 401(k) Plan The plaintiffs allege plan fiduciaries used what it calls ‘cobbled-together services from many providers’ and didn't monitor fees for any...
Compliance April 15th, 2021 Barnabas Health Retirement Plan Lawsuit Moves Forward Plan fiduciaries' motions to dismiss the excessive fee suit were denied as a federal judge found the plaintiffs' claims were...
Compliance April 12th, 2021 Excessive Fee Lawsuit Settled for $2.3 Million Brenntag North America denied any wrongdoing regarding the alleged failures that plaintiffs said caused excessive investment and recordkeeping fees in...
Compliance April 5th, 2021 Lawsuit Says Retirement Plan Fiduciaries Failed to Monitor and Limit Revenue Sharing The complaint against Wesco Distribution also alleges that the defendants chose higher-cost share classes for investments.
Compliance April 5th, 2021 Judge Moves Forward ERISA Suit Against Coca-Cola Bottler The judge found that plaintiffs in the case challenging the use of an actively managed TDF suite rather than its...
Compliance April 1st, 2021 ICON Clinical Research Faces Common ERISA Claims One feature the new complaint has in common with suits filed previously by Capozzi Adler is its reliance on comparing...
Compliance March 31st, 2021 Judge Moves Forward Claims in Lawsuit Against Schneider Electric Claims were also moved forward against defendant Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting related to a target-date fund (TDF) switch.
Compliance March 17th, 2021 Lawsuit Against MEP Takes Issue With Share Classes, Revenue Sharing Fiduciaries of the multiple employer plan of professional employer organization (PEO) Nextep, Inc. are being sued over excessive investment and...
Compliance February 19th, 2021 Cerner Agrees to $4.05 Million Payment to Settle Excessive Fee Suit The proposed settlement agreement also includes non-monetary terms.
Compliance February 3rd, 2021 Actively Managed Funds and High-Cost Share Classes Called Out in ERISA Suit Participants of a terminated 403(b) plan say the plan sponsor's fiduciary breaches caused them approximately $4.6 million in losses.