Judge Throws Out Spousal Waiver of Benefits
September 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has agreed with a woman who claimed that a...
Tag: ERISA
Drunk Driving Death Not Self-Inflicted Injury
September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that Metropolitan Life Insurance...
Appellate Court Allows Non-lawyer Charges on ERISA Case Bill
September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In addition to charging fees for their services, lawyers working on Employee Retirement Income Security...
Court Orders MI Retiree Health Plan Reinstated
August 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ordered that a Michigan auto parts manufacturer reinstate its retiree health...
Former Employee Fails to Prove Benefits Interference
August 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio determined that a former employee...
Court Rejects Estranged Wife's Appeal for Survivor Benefits
August 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that even if the estranged wife...
Employer Cannot be Fiduciary Before its Existence
August 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a spin-off...
Lockheed Cleared of Fiduciary Misstep in Rollover Dispute
August 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has cleared Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Inc. (LMES) of wrongdoing in...
DoL Removes DC Union in Fiduciary Breach Case
August 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have announced that they have obtained a temporary federal court restraining order, removing...
Ex-Motorola Worker Cannot File Company Stock Suit
August 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because a former Motorola employee no longer participated in the company's 401(k) plan and had...
Court Applies "Catch-all" Statute of Limitations to Retirees' Claim
August 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals determined a group of retirees of the United...
Deferred Comp Plan Not a Top Hat
August 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because an employer allowed non-management non-highly compensated staff members to be in a deferred compensation...
Cafeteria Plans Not Required to be Held in Trust
August 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has turned away complaints by employees of a South Carolina textile...
ERISA Claim is Time-barred in Spite of Disclosure Violation
August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, though a pension plan violated its...
Judge Agrees Lack of SPD Caused Coverage Lapse
August 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Virginia ruled that an employer breached...
Court Denies Former Participant Claim for Fiduciary Breach
July 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling that a former retirement...
Equitable Cash Balance Plan Wins Discrimination Ruling
July 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that a cash...
State Act to Recover Costs of Imprisonment not Completely Preempted by ERISA
July 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan determined that a lawsuit filed...
Court Rejects Children as Intended Beneficiaries of ESOP Participant
July 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of South Carolina found no evidence to support...
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Workers File Pension Suit against Boeing
July 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four former McDonnell Douglas employees who moved over to Boeing after a corporate merger between...