Participants not Due Retirement Benefits on Wages not Paid
February 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has found that an employer owed no fiduciary or recording obligations under...
Tag: ERISA
Court Moves Forward Claim Employer Interfered with Health Benefits
January 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has refused to dismiss a claim by a Jersey Construction employee that...
Convicted Killer Barred from Getting Dead Wife’s Pension
January 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com)–A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that a man convicted for his wife’s death in...
Bankruptcy Doesn’t Relieve Plan of ERISA Mandates
January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com)–A Department of Labor (DoL) administrative law judge has rejected the appeal by a 401(k) plan administrator...
Participant too Late to Pursue Interference of Benefits Claim
January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A former retirement plan participant claiming he was terminated to prevent him from becoming vested...
401(k) Benefits Properly Paid to Ex-Wife
January 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com)–A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected claims that a deceased 401(k) participant’s plan balance should have...
ERISA Class Actions Picked up in 2009
January 12, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s economic downturn has prompted plaintiffs’ lawyers to increase the pace of filing class...
Winston & Strawn Adds ERISA Specialist
January 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Winston & Strawn law firm has added James P. Baker, a specialist in the...
U.S. Sugar Agrees to $15.9M-Settlement of ERISA Claims
December 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Clewiston, Florida-based U.S. Sugar has agreed to pay $15.9 million to settle a breach of...
Verizon Charged with Involuntary Transfer of Retiree Pension Accounts
December 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon retirees have filed a complaint for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...
Employer Cleared of Wrongdoing in Benefits Case
November 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected claims by an AK Steel Corp. employee that...
Law Firm that Settled Pension Suit on Its Own May be Fiduciary
November 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has determined that a pension...
Deere & Co. Wins Suit over Retiree Health Benefits Reduction
October 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa has ruled that Deere &...
Disability Benefits Cutoff Is an ERISA Matter
October 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee cannot move forward with her state law claims a disability benefit plan administrator...
State Court Next Stop for Union Plan Wrongful Payment Suit
October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Taft-Hartley plan is not permitted to recoup more than $13,000 in wrongly paid health...
Pension Calculation Dispute Thrown Out on Appeal
October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com - Three pension participants who sued their employer over a pension calculation dispute can't pursue their...
Ex-HR Chief Gets 57-Month Jail Term in $6M Benefits Plan Swindle
September 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hitachi America's former HR director has been sentenced to a 57-month jail term in connection...
SPD Passes 9th Circuit Scrutiny in Benefits Denial Case
September 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's decision to include in the disability chapter of its summary plan description (SPD)...
Summary Prospectus Users Still 404(c) Eligible
September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors on Tuesday got a bit of a roadmap from the U.S. Department of...
Airline Pilots Want PBGC Dismissed as Plan Trustee
September 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the...