Deals and People | April 17th, 2013 ERISA Litigator Joins Drinker Biddle April 17, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Theodore M. Becker joined law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as a partner in...
Compliance | April 17th, 2013 Council Makes Suggestions for Beneficiary Designation Process April 17, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ERISA Advisory Council recommended steps the Department of Labor (DOL) should take to improve...
Compliance | April 16th, 2013 Benefits Recovery Should Not Hurt Participants April 16, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that a health plan can recover benefits paid when...
Compliance | April 16th, 2013 Another Lawsuit Questions Sponsor's Church Plan Status April 16, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A former employee of Dignity Health, a California-based health care provider, has filed a complaint...
Compliance | April 12th, 2013 ESOP Shareholder Claims Not Preempted by ERISA April 12, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has remanded a case filed by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)...
Compliance | April 12th, 2013 ESOP Shareholder Claims Not Preempted by ERISA April 12, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has remanded a case filed by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)...
Compliance | April 9th, 2013 Interest on Unpaid Pension Benefits Inadequate April 9, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An appeals court recently affirmed a previous award of unpaid pension benefits, but reversed the...
Compliance | April 8th, 2013 DRO Not Qualified After Benefit Payments Start April 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A domestic relations order (DRO) cannot be qualified under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...
Compliance | April 3rd, 2013 Court Finds Officers Not Liable for Plan Contributions April 4, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court ruled that a company’s officers are not fiduciaries to a multiemployer plan and...
Compliance | April 2nd, 2013 Health Care Sponsor Challenged on Church Plan Status April 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former employees of Catholic Health East are challenging whether its pension plans are actually...
Compliance | March 29th, 2013 Morgan Stanley, Pfizer Benefit from Moench Presumption March 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Judges from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed two...
Compliance | March 29th, 2013 Verizon Pension Suit Gets Class Action Status March 29, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge certified a class in the lawsuit against Verizon about its decision to...
Compliance | March 25th, 2013 Court Rules In Favor of Employer Who Dropped Stock March 25, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court found an employer’s decision to drop stock investments from its 401(k) plan...
Compliance | March 25th, 2013 9th Circuit Affirms Ruling in Retail Fund Dispute March 25, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An employer lost another legal battle for failure to ask about lower-priced investments for its...
Products | March 21st, 2013 Proskauer Offers ERISA Resource for Employers March 21, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Proskauer Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Practice Center has launched the ERISA...
Benefits | March 19th, 2013 Mandatory Distributions Reduce Cost and Risk March 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – It can be costly for plans and their fiduciaries if participants with retirement accounts of...
Compliance | March 15th, 2013 Since Divorce Not Final, Plan Must Pay Wife March 15, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal district court ruled that since a husband and wife never finalized their divorce, the...
Compliance | March 14th, 2013 Fidelity Faces Another Float Income Suit March 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Another lawsuit has been filed against Fidelity Investments regarding its use of float income.
Compliance | March 14th, 2013 Is Your Health Plan SPD ERISA-Friendly? March 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Does your company have a legitimate summary plan description (SPD) for its health care plan,...
Compliance | March 14th, 2013 DOL Guidance About Swap Clearing and ERISA Plans March 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) requires that swap transactions go...