Compliance | November 30th, 2020 ERISA Fiduciary Breach Complaint Targets Coca-Cola Bottler The plaintiffs in the case are represented by the increasingly well-known law firm Capozzi Adler, which has in the past...
Compliance | November 30th, 2020 Judge Certifies Sizable Class in Lawsuit Over TIAA’s Retirement Plan Loan Program The lawsuit alleges TIAA kept some of the interest participants paid on loans from their retirement plans, which it says...
Compliance | November 30th, 2020 Abbott Brought Back Into Retirement Plan Cybersecurity Lawsuit Previously dismissed from the lawsuit, Abbott is accused in an amended complaint of failing to monitor its recordkeeper and failing...
Compliance | November 30th, 2020 The Basics of Terminating a DC Plan From updating the plan with statutory amendments to filing the final Form 5500, there are many details to attend to...
Compliance | November 24th, 2020 $17.5M Settlement Reached Over ‘Too Conservative’ Plan Investments The plan’s investment policy statement allegedly called for 70% of the plan’s assets to be allocated into domestic fixed income...
Compliance | November 24th, 2020 Bath and Body Works Parent Company Sued for 401(k) Plan Excessive Fees The lawsuit against L Brands says recordkeeping and investment fees were excessive and fiduciaries failed to use the lowest-cost share...
Compliance | November 20th, 2020 Teva Pharma Excessive Fee Case Reaches Sizable Settlement The pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay more than $2.5 million to settle an ERISA excessive fee lawsuit, out of...
Compliance | November 13th, 2020 Boeing Defeats Stock Drop Suit Tied to 737 MAX Crashes Plaintiffs in stock drop lawsuits have had very limited success establishing standing under a precedent set by the landmark Supreme...
Compliance | November 11th, 2020 Amway Faces Excessive Fee Lawsuit Among other allegations, the complaint says defendants continued to offer certain funds in the plan despite the availability of alternative,...
Compliance | November 9th, 2020 PEPs Carry Evolving Fiduciary Risks of Their Own The legal complexities that emerge when a single employer operates a retirement plan for its own staff are already immense;...
Compliance | November 4th, 2020 Use of Proprietary Target-Date Suite Challenged in ERISA Suit Another self-dealing lawsuit has been filed in federal court, this one seeking $34 million in alleged damages.
Opinions | November 4th, 2020 Barry’s Pickings: An Opportunity for the Court to Bring Clarity on ERISA Fiduciary Rules Michael Barry, president of O3 Plan Advisory Services LLC, argues that the U.S. Supreme Court, now has an opportunity to...
Compliance | November 3rd, 2020 Court Moves Forward Universal Health Services ERISA Suit The court agreed with the plaintiffs that they have alleged injury with respect to each of their claims—which implicate ‘plan-level...
Compliance | November 2nd, 2020 Allstate Sued Over TDFs Offered in 401(k) The lawsuit says the target-date funds had underperformed since they were created and resulted in a loss of $65 million...
Compliance | October 29th, 2020 DOL ERISA Enforcement Results Increase From Previous Year The agency’s enforcement report describes some ways enforcement actions are initiated.
Ask the Experts | October 20th, 2020 What Types of Situations Does a ‘Mistake of Fact’ Plan Document Provision Cover? Experts from Groom Law Group and Cammack Retirement Group answer questions concerning retirement plan administration and regulations.
Compliance | October 19th, 2020 Another Lawsuit Challenges Fund Manager Strategy During COVID-19 Market Crash Allianz Global Investors is again accused of not following the promised investment strategy for its Structured Alpha Funds.
Compliance | October 14th, 2020 Settlement Reached in Insperity 401(k) Excessive Fee, Self-Dealing Suit Among other things, the lawsuit accused Reliance Trust Co. of selecting funds for the plan that would benefit itself.
Compliance | October 13th, 2020 Lawsuit Against Nestle Takes New Approach at Challenging Managed Account Fees A prior lawsuit against its 401(k) plan recordkeeper and managed account provider was dismissed, with a federal judge saying any...
Compliance | October 12th, 2020 DuPont Pension Plan Participants’ ERISA Lawsuit Dismissed A federal district court judge again found no fiduciary acts occurred when a corporate restructuring resulted in DuPont being a...