Compliance | March 20th, 2009 ERISA Breach Suit Filed a Month Late March 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a fiduciary breach suit by a trustee of...
Benefits | March 16th, 2009 ERISA Survey Finds Many Sponsors Lacking on Fiduciary Details March 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey finds less than a third of retirement plan fiduciaries report a clear...
Compliance | March 16th, 2009 Most Fiduciary Breach Claims Dismissed in Waste Management Stock Case March 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out most of the fiduciary breach claims in a suit...
Compliance | March 16th, 2009 Court Rules Former Participant Has No Standing for ERISA Claims March 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has ruled that a former Wells...
Compliance | March 16th, 2009 Releases Signed by Former Employees Do Not Bar ERISA Claims March 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho has found that a release and...
Administration | March 11th, 2009 Ex-Hitachi HR Manager Pleads to $6.1M Fraud March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dennis M. Dowd, formerly the senior manager of human resources of Hitachi America Ltd., has...
Compliance | March 6th, 2009 Court Finds Real Estate Deal Constituted ERISA Breach March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that a former pension trustee...
Compliance | February 27th, 2009 Attorney Fees Cannot be Paid with Participants Vested Benefits February 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a law firm cannot obtain...
Compliance | February 5th, 2009 Court Finds no Interference of Benefits in Excessive Absence Termination February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has ruled that Lockheed Martin...
Compliance | February 3rd, 2009 Judge Holds Employer Liable for Missing Plan Contributions February 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the owner of a now-defunct Michigan construction firm is...
Compliance | February 2nd, 2009 State Street Validated by Company Stock Suit Ruling February 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared State Street Bank & Trust Co. of wrongdoing for...
Compliance | January 28th, 2009 Cash Balance Plan Participants' Document Requests not Subject to ERISA Time Limit January 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has determined that an employer...
Compliance | January 28th, 2009 Northwest Target-Date DC Plan Escapes Legal Challenge January 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Minnesota has rebuffed an age-discrimination challenge to Northwest Airlines' defined contribution...
Compliance | January 23rd, 2009 State Courts Cannot Determine if DRO is Qualified under ERISA January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that a domestic relations...
Benefits | January 13th, 2009 ERISA Suits Led Workplace Class Actions in 2008 January 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fifth Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report by Seyfarth Shaw LLP found that more...
Compliance | December 19th, 2008 Benefits TPA Cleared in New York Legal Battle December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has cleared a Buffalo benefits TPA of wrongdoing in...
Compliance | December 18th, 2008 WV Court Rules ERISA Subrogation Claims Belong in Federal Court December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that a medical plan fiduciary or...
Compliance | December 10th, 2008 Hartford Stock Drop Cases Accumulate December 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has been hit with two new stock drop class action...
Compliance | December 3rd, 2008 Govt. Lawyers Urge U.S. High Court to Pass on AK Steel Pension Appeal December 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bush Administration lawyers have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn away an employer's attempt...
Compliance | December 2nd, 2008 Beneficiary Change Valid Despite Disappearing Form December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deceased life insurance plan participant's designation of her daughter as a beneficiary was valid...