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...
Tag: ERISA
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
High Court Ponders Scope of Fiduciary Breach Suits
November 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments Monday in a case that could help define...
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...
DoL Proposes New Asset Types Allowed for Settlements
November 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced a proposed amendment...
ULLICO to Pay $20M to Settle Self-Dealing Charges by DoL
November 16, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor announced a settlement requiring Union Labor Life Insurance Co. (ULLICO)...
Benefits Challenge Denied – Again
November 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former Quaker Oats Co. employees fighting to receive additional pension benefits they say were...
Court Upholds Felony Exclusion Application in DUI Case
November 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of an accidental death benefit plan with a felony exclusion has been cleared...
CEO Had no Obligation to Resign as Fiduciary of Health Plan
November 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah has determined that the CEO of...