Lessons learned from district and appellate court decisions filed this year can help plan sponsor clients better protect their plans and fiduciary staff; 2018 also brought new trends...
The appellate court found that the allegations showed only that Chevron could have chosen different vehicles for investment that performed better during the relevant period, or sought lower...
The question before the high court is, “Whether an agreement to arbitrate ‘all claims’ that an ERISA plan participant ‘may have’ against a plan fiduciary encompasses a breach-of-fiduciary-duty...
The dismissal of the lawsuit accusing the custodian of making unauthorized 403(b) plan account transfers comes a month after the owners of the plan's recordkeeper were indicted for...
A lawsuit claims Atrium Health does not meet the definition of governmental entity under ERISA, so its retirement plans do not fall under ERISA's governmental plans exemption.
Speaking to a room of plan sponsors and specialist consultants in Boston, two ERISA litigation experts offered a detailed review of recent action in big-ticket lawsuits impacting employer...
Some 83,000 lawsuits have been filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in federal district court since 2009, according to Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company; fewer than...
Another district court ruling in the matter of Alas vs. AT&T sides in part with the plaintiffs and in part with the defendants, making yet another amended complaint...
Putnam Investments has asked for a stay in a case accusing it of self-dealing in its 401(k) plan so it can petition the U.S. Supreme Court regarding whether...
The interim decision is a mixed bag that falls more in favor of the plaintiffs, but it by no means concludes the litigation—not least because plaintiffs have already...