Compliance

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Similar to the plethora of ERISA excessive fee fiduciary breach lawsuits that have been filed in recent years, this one suggests the plan failed to use its bargaining...

Contents of the DOL’s Getting It Right – Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities seminar will be presented via three different webcast sessions.

The trustee embezzled approximately $186,123.93 from the plan, as well as knowingly and willingly failed to file a required annual report for the CMG pension plan.

“Defendant has not acted in the best interest of the plan and its participants,” the complaint states. “Instead, defendant used the plan—one of the largest 401(k) plans in...

A non-monetary component of the settlement requires Oracle to instruct its 401(k) plan recordkeeper to not solicit participants for cross-selling products and services.

Sources debate whether electronic delivery of retirement plan disclosures could blunt some of the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Intel vs. Sulyma.

The lawsuit says the plan ‘inexplicably failed to select these lower fee-charging and better-return producing share classes.’

Expert attorneys say the ruling is significant for a variety of reasons—not least because it expands the potential liability plan sponsors face in fiduciary breach lawsuits.

A federal judge said the special fiduciary appointed to oversee the plan has sole authority to file lawsuits on behalf of the plan.

Not addressing the question of whether the Puerto Rico Supreme Court violated the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court found a lower court lacked jurisdiction to issue payment...

The hotel chain is being sued for not using a court-ordered equivalency method for calculating vesting service to participants in its pension plan.

The decision against summary dismissal of Herndon vs. Huntington Ingalls is made more significant by the fact that similar cases have been filed against large employers across the...

The Department of Labor alleges various failures and points of wrongdoing associated with sale of company stock to RVR Inc. employees.

It was found that the pension plan committee did not reasonably interpret the plan when it offset pension benefits for retirees who had previously received a workers’ compensation...

Attorneys discussed the clarity it provides, due diligence required and the hurdle of getting participants to accept annuities.

They found that some of the clients the attorneys were representing were former committee members alleged to have committed ERISA violations.

The lawsuit sought to portray Fidelity as a functional fiduciary that was inappropriately collecting revenue sharing payments from third-party mutual fund companies.

The premiums would increase by $26 billion over 10 years.