Compliance | October 21st, 2009 Deere & Co. Wins Suit over Retiree Health Benefits Reduction October 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa has ruled that Deere &...
Compliance | October 20th, 2009 Disability Benefits Cutoff Is an ERISA Matter October 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee cannot move forward with her state law claims a disability benefit plan administrator...
Compliance | October 9th, 2009 State Court Next Stop for Union Plan Wrongful Payment Suit October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Taft-Hartley plan is not permitted to recoup more than $13,000 in wrongly paid health...
Compliance | October 9th, 2009 Pension Calculation Dispute Thrown Out on Appeal October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com - Three pension participants who sued their employer over a pension calculation dispute can't pursue their...
Compliance | September 23rd, 2009 Ex-HR Chief Gets 57-Month Jail Term in $6M Benefits Plan Swindle September 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hitachi America's former HR director has been sentenced to a 57-month jail term in connection...
Compliance | September 10th, 2009 SPD Passes 9th Circuit Scrutiny in Benefits Denial Case September 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's decision to include in the disability chapter of its summary plan description (SPD)...
Compliance | September 8th, 2009 Summary Prospectus Users Still 404(c) Eligible September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors on Tuesday got a bit of a roadmap from the U.S. Department of...
Compliance | September 3rd, 2009 Airline Pilots Want PBGC Dismissed as Plan Trustee September 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the...
Compliance | August 31st, 2009 Countrywide Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval August 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Los Angeles has preliminarily approved a $55-million settlement between Bank of...
Compliance | August 28th, 2009 Motorola Benefits Ruling Clarifies Conflicted Administrator Law August 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal court judges continued refining their approach to handling benefits award cases involving a conflict...
Compliance | August 21st, 2009 Court Keeps 404(c) Shield in Place for Trustee August 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retirement plan trustee was entitled to invoke safe-harbor protection against fiduciary breach allegations leveled...
Benefits | August 17th, 2009 Wal-Mart Settles ERISA Case for $5M August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firms of Berger & Montague, P.C., Keller Rohrback, LLP and Ann Miller, LLC...
Compliance | August 7th, 2009 9th Circuit Affirms Reimbursement of Benefits for Fraudulent Bene August 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's decision that that...
Compliance | July 21st, 2009 Abuse of Discretion Named Top Hat Dispute Standard July 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a benefits decision by an administrator of a...
Compliance | July 20th, 2009 Elimination of Pensioner Death Benefit Did not Violate ERISA July 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's ruling that Qwest...
Compliance | July 8th, 2009 Woman Sentenced to Prison for 401(k) Theft July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who was accused of fraudulently arranging for an $18,000 401(k) plan distribution from...
Compliance | July 8th, 2009 Court Finds no Violation of ERISA in Notice of Fund Merger July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has found that Wachovia Bank...
Compliance | July 1st, 2009 Anheuser-Busch Sued Over QDIA Selection July 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Anheuser-Busch has been hit with a federal court lawsuit alleging the beermaker and a trustee...
Compliance | July 1st, 2009 High Court Accepts Xerox ERISA Case for Review July 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Supreme Court justices have agreed to consider an appeal of an Employee Retirement Income...
Compliance | June 26th, 2009 Fired Exec Not Entitled to Severance, Stock Plan Benefits June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court decision supporting a Tulsa, Oklahoma, convenience...