Compliance | December 19th, 2018 Most Counts Against GE Allowed to Proceed in ERISA Lawsuit The text of a new ruling on GE defendants' summary dismissal motion steps through complex issues of timeliness that are...
Compliance | December 18th, 2018 9th Circuit Questions Meaning of ‘Actual Knowledge’ for ERISA Statute of Limitations The appellate court sent a case over Intel's use of alternative investments in its target-date funds back to a lower...
Compliance | December 17th, 2018 Stock-Drop Lawsuit Targeting IBM Revived and Remanded An appellate court has taken the rare step of overturning a successful motion to dismiss a stock drop lawsuit targeting...
Compliance | December 12th, 2018 $3M Settlement Reached in Edward Jones Self-Dealing Lawsuit After a complex set of motions and rulings, the parties have now opted to settle the ERISA self-dealing lawsuit rather...
Compliance | December 10th, 2018 Lawsuit Argues MetLife Pension Calculations Use Outdated Mortality Table A newly filed complaint takes issue with the way MetLife calculates the actuarial equivalence of different types of annuity benefit...
Compliance | December 10th, 2018 More Diverse ERISA Litigation Expected in 2019 Reflecting on lessons learned this year, Jamie Fleckner, partner at Goodwin Procter, says cases still are growing more diverse in...
Compliance | December 10th, 2018 Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Chevron ERISA Lawsuit The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the facts alleged are insufficient to support a plausible inference of...
Compliance | December 4th, 2018 $24M Settlement Proposed By Parties in BB&T Self-Dealing ERISA Litigation The long-running litigation appears to be heading for a mediated conclusion, after a contentious discovery process that produced over 260,000...
Compliance | December 3rd, 2018 USC Asks Supreme Court to Weigh in on Arbitration of Retirement Plan Claims The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously concluded that the challenge to the management of the University of Southern...
Compliance | November 20th, 2018 Health Care System Sued Over Retirement Plans’ Governmental Status A lawsuit alleges a health care system in North Carolina falsely claims to be a governmental entity, allowing it to...
Compliance | November 15th, 2018 Retirement Plan ERISA Litigation Trends Still Heating Up It has only been about a year and a half since large U.S. universities became the target of ERISA lawsuits,...
Compliance | November 14th, 2018 ERISA Litigation Landscape Mapped by LexisNexis With the launch of its latest analytics module, Lex Machina has uncovered a variety of trends across all the flavors...
Compliance | November 13th, 2018 DOL Clarifies Fiduciary Roles in Auto-Portability Solution The agency says plan sponsors have fiduciary responsibility for selecting and monitoring Retirement Clearinghouse’s Auto-Portability Solution, but once assets have...
Compliance | November 8th, 2018 DOL Proposes Exemption for Retirement Plan Auto-Portability Solution The agency is inviting public comment on the proposed exemption and encourages additional proposals.
Compliance | November 5th, 2018 District Court Returns Mixed Ruling for AT&T ERISA Lawsuit In a mixed ruling, the court again leaves room for re-pleading of the plaintiffs’ failed arguments, making the filing of...
Compliance | October 31st, 2018 Putnam Asks for Stay in Self-Dealing Case to Seek Supreme Court Input The question for the Supreme Court is whether the plaintiff or the defendant bears the burden of proof on loss...
Compliance | October 23rd, 2018 EBSA Secures ERISA Settlement from Neuroscience Center The plan’s sole fiduciary and trustee has agreed to restore pension assets that, according to an EBSA investigation, were improperly...
Compliance | October 19th, 2018 Dignity Health ‘Church Plan’ Litigation Defeats Dismissal Motions The case already made it once to the Supreme Court which helped to clarify what it means to be a...
Compliance | October 17th, 2018 Appellate Court Revives Putnam Self-Dealing Suit The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found “several errors of law in the district court’s rulings.”
Compliance | October 11th, 2018 Fidelity Faces Another 401(k) Self-Dealing Lawsuit The lawsuit not only calls out Fidelity’s use of all proprietary funds in its 401(k) investment lineup, but also accuses...