Compliance | November 28th, 2022 Judge Grants Motion to Dismiss Ricoh Complaint The two counts brought by plaintiffs were bounced by the Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
Compliance | September 16th, 2022 Suit Claims Janus Henderson Favored Its Own Funds in 401(k) Plan Case alleges firm put high-fee, underperforming proprietary funds in its retirement plan
Compliance | September 1st, 2022 ADP Ruling Includes Cross-Selling Claims Dismissal The mixed dismissal motion ruling, which sides mostly with the plaintiffs, agrees with the defense that certain data-sharing among providers...
Compliance | August 16th, 2022 Managed Account Fees Challenged in Latest ERISA Lawsuit The lawsuit comes as retirement plan sponsors and participants express increased interest in personalization and managed account services.
Compliance | August 15th, 2022 Settlement Struck in L Brands ERISA Lawsuit The defendants were accused of failing to monitor the average expense ratios charged to similarly sized plans for investment management...
Compliance | July 22nd, 2022 TriHealth Excessive Fee Ruling Partly Remanded by 6th Circuit The short appellate ruling notes that new precedents have overtaken some of the debates in the case.
Compliance | June 29th, 2022 Cook Group Faces Latest Excessive Fee Complaint The defendants are accused of paying unreasonable recordkeeping and administrative fees and offering imprudent share classes of certain investment options.
Compliance | May 27th, 2022 Stable Value Returns Figure in Latest ERISA Complaint The named defendants in the suit are the DENSO International America company alongside its board of directors and various committees...
Compliance | March 29th, 2022 Principal Wins Dismissal of ERISA Lawsuit The complaint alleged a target-date fund suite managed by Principal performed poorly for an excessive period of time, without being...
Compliance | March 28th, 2022 ERISA Suit Filed Against Dartmouth-Hitchcock Network The plaintiffs accuse the defense of failing to work to reduce retirement plan expenses or to adequately scrutinize each investment...
Compliance | March 16th, 2022 $5.1M Settlement Struck in Costco ERISA Lawsuit The lawsuit suggested the fiduciaries of the plan breached their ERISA duties by authorizing the plan to pay unreasonably high...
Compliance | February 18th, 2022 Recordkeeping Fee Suit Questions Revenue Sharing Arrangement In addition to naming the company as a defendant, the lawsuit also targets members of the board of directors, as...
Compliance | February 2nd, 2022 Duke Energy ERISA Lawsuit Clears Dismissal Motion The district court’s order promptly concludes that the plaintiffs have sufficiently stated a claim for breach of fiduciary duty.
Compliance | January 28th, 2022 Attorneys Divided on Supreme Court Ruling’s Employer Impact The lead plaintiffs’ attorney says the Supreme Court has confirmed that it is the employer’s obligation, not the employee’s, to...
Compliance | January 25th, 2022 Detailed Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Northwestern University Ruling Expert attorneys say the new ruling can be interpreted as ‘modestly expanding’ the precedents set by the Supreme Court in...
Compliance | January 24th, 2022 Northwestern University Lawsuit Dismissal Reversed by Supreme Court The new ruling states that Tibble v. Edison’s discussion of the continuing duty to monitor plan investments applies in the...
Compliance | January 21st, 2022 Plaintiff Must Arbitrate 403(b) ERISA Claims An order filed in an excessive fee lawsuit against Baptist Health South Florida says the 403(b) plan in question effectively...
Compliance | December 22nd, 2021 Plaintiffs Try Again in Prudential ERISA Lawsuit The new amended complaint seeks to provide more detail about 14 different investment options allegedly offered in the plan and...
Compliance | December 22nd, 2021 Dismissal Motion Fails in Natixis ERISA Lawsuit The lawsuit, now cleared for discovery, claims that a proclivity for proprietary mutual funds has cost plan participants millions of...
Compliance | December 17th, 2021 Lawsuit Claims Voya Impermissibly Favored Its Own TDFs in DC Plan Participants in Voya’s defined contribution retirement plan suggest certain funds were not selected and retained for the plan as the...