Compliance | February 6th, 2020 ERISA Pension Lawsuit Targets UPS The complaint stresses that, under ERISA, the “present values” of a joint and survivor annuity and a single life annuity...
Compliance | February 5th, 2020 Judge Scales Back Claims Against Voya in Excessive Fee Suit The only charge that survived regarded Voya providing “false and misleading” participant fee disclosures.
Compliance | February 5th, 2020 Principal Back on the Hook for GIC Challenge A federal district court’s decision that Principal is not a fiduciary when it sets the crediting rate for a GIC...
Compliance | February 4th, 2020 2nd Circuit Again Remands Decade-Old PwC ERISA Litigation The appellate court disagreed with a lower court finding that reformation of PwC's cash balance plan and the recalculation of...
Compliance | January 31st, 2020 Navy Contractor Serco Faces ERISA Excessive Fee Lawsuit The complaint states that the plan’s investment options and fees “cannot be justified.”
Compliance | January 29th, 2020 Court Permits Healthcare System Cash Balance Lawsuit to Proceed The parties in Belknap v. Partners Healthcare System have been given an opportunity to submit supplemental briefing as to the...
Compliance | January 28th, 2020 Shell Oil, Fidelity Face Allegations in New ERISA Lawsuit Among other allegations, the litigation says Shell Oil fiduciaries allowed Fidelity to inappropriately utilize plan data for its own commercial...
Compliance | January 23rd, 2020 Excessive Fee Cases Continue With Lawsuit Against Cerner Corporation The ERISA complaint includes familiar allegations that retirement plan fiduciaries failed to manage or monitor plan recordkeeping and investment fees.
Compliance | January 22nd, 2020 Supreme Court Declines to Review Question About Dudenhoeffer Pleading Standards A former employee of SunEdison Semiconductor LLC claimed that the 8th Circuit “discarded the core lesson of Dudenhoeffer and imposed...
Compliance | January 14th, 2020 Northrop Grumman Agrees to Settle 401(k) Excessive Fee Suit The defendants have agreed to pay a gross settlement amount of $12,375,000 to resolve all claims.
Compliance | January 14th, 2020 Supreme Court Will Not Weigh In on Burden of Proof and Index Fund Comparison The denial will let a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision stand, which the Investment Company Institute previously said...
Compliance | January 10th, 2020 Chemical Distributor’s U.S. DC Plan Subject of Excessive Fee Suit The plaintiffs suggest that the task of evaluating investments has become simpler for plan fiduciaries and that prudent fiduciaries will...
Compliance | January 7th, 2020 Settlement Announced in Case About Forcing Participants Out of ESOP The case has been stayed until the parties can draft the settlement agreement.
Compliance | January 6th, 2020 2020 ERISA Plan Compliance Calendar A schedule to help plan sponsors track important due dates for their plan
Compliance | January 6th, 2020 IRS Cites Additional Supreme Court Guidance in Granting Church Plan Status The agency’s response to an entity requesting church plan status for its retirement plan offers its interpretation of relevant Internal...
Compliance | January 3rd, 2020 Advisory Firm Settles ERISA Litigation Jeffrey Slocum & Associates will pay some $500,000 into a settlement account in exchange for a release of all ERISA...
Compliance | January 3rd, 2020 ERISA Fiduciary Breach Lawsuit Targets Trader Joe’s Trader Joe’s retirement plan committee is accused of failing to seek competitive bids for recordkeeping, among other alleged fiduciary breaches.
Compliance | January 2nd, 2020 Wilmington Trust Agrees to Settle ESOP Lawsuit It has agreed to pay $5 million into a settlement fund.
Compliance | December 31st, 2019 ERISA Class Action Complaint Targets Ardent Health Services One unique feature of the complaint is a short discussion of Sageview Advisory Group being a “non-defendant fiduciary.”
Compliance | December 31st, 2019 M&T Bank to Pay Nearly $21 Million to Settle Self-Dealing Suit In addition, the bank has agreed to an independent review of funds in its 401(k) plan and to issue a...