Compliance

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...

The fiduciary breach lawsuit accuses plan fiduciaries of mapping $1 billion into a fund that lagged peer performance and was unpopular in the marketplace.

Plaintiffs suggest higher than average fees were not attributable to enhanced services for participants, but instead to defendants’ use of high-cost investment products and managers.

A U.S. District Judge in North Carolina determined the health system’s retirement and health plans were established and maintained for its employees by a political subdivision of the...

A federal court judge moved forward most claims, but granted summary judgment to Massachusetts Institute of Technology defendants for a claim alleging a prohibited transaction between MIT and...

They argue that retirement plan disclosures give retirement plan participants the “actual knowledge” required by ERISA, whether participants read them or not, and that an appellate court decision...

According to an appellate court, a cause of action against a plan sponsors for defaulting on its multiemployer plan withdrawal liability began when the plan trustees first accelerated...

A federal court decides that, as stock options were not purchased securities, UBS did not violate sections of securities acts that required disclosures.

The 7th Circuit found a district court was hasty in granting summary judgment to the health care system before all discovery was obtained to prove or disprove the...

Participants in the CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan have filed a lawsuit against the company, its retirement plan committee and the provider of target-date funds (TDFs)...

The IRS anticipates that final regulations on closed DB plan nondiscrimination testing will not be published in time for plan sponsors to make plan design decisions before expiration...

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Safelite’s NQDC plan to be covered under ERISA, so a participant’s claims for Section 409A violations should have been filed...

A federal court judge refused to dismiss the case, finding that the new claim was not a released claim in a previous lawsuit settlement and the plaintiffs had...