Federal Appellate Court Upholds ERISA Claim Dismissal
February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has thrown out a lower court ruling that a law firm violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...
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ABB Excessive Fee Suit Survives Initial Challenge
February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Missouri has cleared the way for participants in ABB Inc.'s 401(k) plan to move forward with their...
Breach Suit against Broker Dismissed for Timing
February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A profit-sharing plan participant's fiduciary breach suit against the plan's broker was filed after the three-year statute of limitations called for under the...
International Paper Settles Employee Cell Phone Negligence Suit
February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Paper has agreed to a $5.2 million out-of-court settlement in a personal injury lawsuit arising out of a 2006 auto accident involving...
Loss from Delay in Distribution of Stock not Eligible for ERISA Relief
February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has found a former 401(k) plan participant alleging a loss of income due...
VA Paramedic's Death Ruled Outside Workers' Comp Coverage
February 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The family of a dead Virginia paramedic killed in a freak defibrillator accident won the right to pursue its civil suit over the...
Law Firm Gets Court's Nod to Proceed with Fee Lawsuit
February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because John Hancock Life Insurance Co. could be judged to have been a fiduciary in a Troy, Michigan, law firm's 401(k) plan, the...
Kentucky Senate Passes Domestic Partner Benefits Ban
February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky state Senate has approved a bill banning Kentucky's eight public universities and other state agencies from offering benefits to domestic partners...
Payment of Child Support with Plan Assets not a State Law Issue
February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined it was an error for a federal district court to decide a court-ordered child...
Judge Upholds AZ Illegal Worker Law
February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Legal Arizona Workers Act, which calls for suspension and revocation of licenses of businesses that knowingly employ unauthorized workers, has been upheld...
DoL to Put out Proposed FMLA Changes
February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has completed proposed revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and will...
IBM Retiree Loses Pension Suit – Again
February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has thrown out a lawsuit by a former IBM employee over his pension benefits after ruling the...
Company Stock Price not only Factor in ERISA Prudent Rule Standard
February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently held that employer W.R. Grace and Co. and State Street Bank and Trust...
Change to Disputed Federal Comp System Must Come from Congress
February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by federal employees in Alaska and Hawaii claiming their pension calculation is discriminatory compared to...
Claim of Improper Disclosure of Personal Info not Preempted by ERISA
February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has remanded a health plan participant's suit for breach of fiduciary duty...
Court Throws Out Claim of Emotional Distress for Cutting Retiree Health Benefits
February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While allowing retirees to move forward with their lawsuit seeking reimbursement of health care expenses incurred after their employer benefits were cut off,...
KY Court Upholds Lexington Police Pension Ruling
February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky state appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Lexington Urban County government underfunded its police and firefighter pension...
NY Court Rules to Recognize Same-Sex Marriages from Out-of-state
February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York appellate court has decided that same-sex marriages validly performed out-of-state must be legally recognized, just as the law recognizes those...
Judge OKs GM 401(k) Stock Drop Settlement
February 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has tentatively approved a settlement in a suit over the investment of General Motors stock in the automaker's 401(k) plan.
Feds Offer Cash Balance Conversion Relief
February 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - New guidance issued by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides that cash balance conversions that have filed for an...