Fiduciary Breach Suit over 'Transfer Adjustment' Fee Allowed to Proceed
January 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Indiana is allowing a Merrillville, Indiana law firm to continue with...
Tag: ERISA
Judge Tosses Fee/Commission Conspiracy Case against Workplace Insurers
January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - After declaring that none of the six major insurance providers accused in a commission conspiracy...
ERISA Does not Preempt State Law Claims of Unsafe Workplace
January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a former employee's claims under...
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Pension Litigation Database Launched
January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PensionLitigationData.com, a joint venture of Pension Governance, LLC and The Michel-Shaked Group, has been launched...
Rail Car Maker Ordered to Rehire Workers to get Pension Benefits
January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago-based rail car manufacturer has asked a federal judge in Pennsylvania to delay implementing...
Appellate Court Clears Roadblock to SF Health Care Law
January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - By a federal appellate court ruling the city of San Francisco won the right to...
Court Affirms Denial of AD&D Benefits due to Participant Drug Use
January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has affirmed an accidental death...
Employer Ordered to Pay for Failing to Monitor Providers
January 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owner and operator of a Salem, New Hampshire, business has been ordered to pay...
Pre-Nup Pact Not an ERISA Benefits Waiver
January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Because a 401(k) participant's widow had not yet married her husband when she signed a...
Employer Cleared of ERISA Violations in Firings
January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge in Philadelphia has cleared a building materials manufacturer of wrongdoing in firing...
Widow of Bee Sting Victim Loses Benefit Fight
January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of an accidental death benefit plan was within its rights in deciding that...
San Francisco Appeals Ruling on Health Care Ordinance
December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California determined that...
Widow of DUI Car Accident Victim Not Entitled to Benefits
December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge has ruled that the widow of an accidental death benefit plan participant...
Participant Seeking Benefits Due Cannot Claim Fiduciary Breach
December 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled a plan participant cannot...
Court Limits COBRA Award for Worker Terminated for Misconduct
December 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York awarded a former Delphi...
Unexecuted Prenup Still Means Widow Gets Retirement Assets
December 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Because the wife of a law firm employee never executed documents waiving her claim to...
Mailing Insurance Forms to Wrong Address not ERISA Breach
December 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared a Texas company of wrongdoing for sending life insurance policy...
Supreme Court Denies AT&T Benefits Interference Case
December 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a federal appelate court ruling that a...
West Virginia Adviser Barred from ERISA Work
November 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Charleston, West Virginia, investment adviser accused of misusing $600,000 from a 401(k) plan he...
Supreme Court Declines Review of Benefits Interference Case
November 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a case concerning whether an employer interfered...