Compliance

Starting in January 2020, employers will be able to use individual coverage HRAs to provide their workers with tax-preferred funds to pay for the cost of health insurance...

While the decision voices some concern about the Invesco plan's operations, the summary judgement ruling concludes plaintiffs have not sufficiently alleged that fiduciary breaches likely occurred.

The new Labor Secretary is known for his previous work at the Department of Labor and for a successful litigation practice focused on deregulatory issues.

While a court has ruled the plan’s advisers should be carved out of the litigation, the counts against Home Depot fiduciaries will proceed.

The question before the court is: May an ERISA plan participant or beneficiary seek disgorgement of unreasonable profits derived from a plan contract from a non-fiduciary party in...

The plaintiff was proposing a defendant class of all sponsors of smaller 401(k) plans that entered into program agreements with Nationwide through its Retirement Flexible Advantage Retirement Plans...

In 2014, President Barack Obama signed into law major changes to Section 4062(e), which requires companies with defined benefit (DB) plans to report to the PBGC when they...

Michael A. Webb, with Cammack Retirement Group, says there are no substantive changes from the proposed regulations, but he points out certain items in the final regulations plan...

The U.S. Solicitor General and the Pension Rights Center have filed briefs with the Supreme Court for a fiduciary breach case the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals...

For one thing, the Congressional Budget Office projects that about one-quarter of the affected multiemployer plans would become insolvent in the 30-year loan period and would not fully...

A total payment of $8.5 million will settle two lawsuits.

U.S. Attorneys have filed a Statement of the Interest of the United States in a lawsuit, offering evidence that the state-run auto-IRA program is preempted.

Two analyses found the proposed tax in Senate bill S. 1587 would require investors to work two to two-and-a-half years longer before retiring in order to reach the...

The mailing address for Employee Plans (EP) submissions for determination letters, letter rulings, individual retirement arrangement (IRA) opinion letters, and others has changed.

They have filed a joint motion to stay all trial dates, but have not yet prepared details of the settlement agreement.

There has actually been relatively little helpful legal insight published by the courts, due to the fact that many ERISA cases end with settlements, while others are dismissed...

The plaintiffs say new evidence came to light from MIT President Rafael Reif’s response to revelations that improper donations were received by MIT from the now-deceased financier Jeffrey...

Following a high-profile 9th Circuit decision, Greystar argues that the plaintiff signed a Mutual Agreement to Arbitrate Claims that not only requires arbitration of her claims but forecloses...