State Street Validated by Company Stock Suit Ruling
February 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared State Street Bank & Trust Co. of wrongdoing for...
Tag: ERISA
Northwest Target-Date DC Plan Escapes Legal Challenge
January 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Minnesota has rebuffed an age-discrimination challenge to Northwest Airlines' defined contribution...
Cash Balance Plan Participants' Document Requests not Subject to ERISA Time Limit
January 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has determined that an employer...
State Courts Cannot Determine if DRO is Qualified under ERISA
January 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that a domestic relations...
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ERISA Suits Led Workplace Class Actions in 2008
January 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fifth Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report by Seyfarth Shaw LLP found that more...
Benefits TPA Cleared in New York Legal Battle
December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has cleared a Buffalo benefits TPA of wrongdoing in...
WV Court Rules ERISA Subrogation Claims Belong in Federal Court
December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that a medical plan fiduciary or...
Hartford Stock Drop Cases Accumulate
December 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has been hit with two new stock drop class action...
Govt. Lawyers Urge U.S. High Court to Pass on AK Steel Pension Appeal
December 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bush Administration lawyers have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn away an employer's attempt...
Beneficiary Change Valid Despite Disappearing Form
December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deceased life insurance plan participant's designation of her daughter as a beneficiary was valid...
DoL Accuses North Dakota Firm of Diverting 401(k) Funds
November 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has accused a Bismarck, North Dakota, manufacturer of wastewater...
EBSA Provides Guidance on Plan Official Bonding Requirements
November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has released Field...
Court Says Mutual Fund Company not an ERISA "Party in Interest"
November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has found that a mutual...
No ERISA Breach Where Fees not Paid by Plan
November 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that a 401(k)...
Paper Company Exec Loses Severance Benefit Fight
November 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared a paper company of wrongdoing in denying severance benefits...
Federal Court Cuts Off Indemnification Claim
November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that John Hancock Life Insurance Co. cannot demand...
LaRue Bows Out of Legal Fight
October 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Texas management consultant, whose lawsuit over 401(k) fiduciary breach allegations became the subject of...
Tech Firm Owner Gets Jail Time for Plan Asset Embezzlement
October 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a Reno-based technology firm to a year...
Northern Trust Hit with Securities Lending Lawsuit
October 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fiduciaries of BP Corp. North America Inc.'s retirement plans have accused Northern Trust Co....
401(k) Breach Suit Can Move Forward
October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a federal appellate court ruling, an Illinois psychologist got more time to pursue her...