Court Finds Employer May Have Misrepresented Benefits Following Sale
December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina denied summary judgment in...
Tag: ERISA
Court Rejects K Plan Settlement Proposal
December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has refused to approve a proposed $3.5 million settlement...
Employer Not Blocked from Correcting Benefits Level
December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has tossed out a lower court ruling that an employer was...
Supreme Court to Provide Clarification of Equitable Relief
December 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a case that will allow it to...
VA Company Owner Charged with Filing False 5500s
November 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal grand jury has indicted the owner of VPC Group Inc. of Virginia Beach,...
Court: Cash Balance Plans Aren't Age Discriminatory
November 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Pennsylvania in large measure relied on pronouncements from the US Treasury...
IRS Extends Date for Reforming Amendments Related to Anti-Cutback Case
November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has extended the deadline when plans must be in compliance with their reforming...
Plan Administrator Cleared in Company Stock Loss Lawsuit
November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has turned away arguments by a plan participant who...
Plans Able to Recoup Disability Overpayments
November 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An federal judge in Indiana has tossed aside arguments by two General Motors employees that...
Court Clears Independent Fiduciary of ERISA Breach in USAir Case
November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Virginia federal judge has cleared a Washington, DC-based independent fiduciary of a fiduciary breach...
Supreme Court Lets Discharge Ruling Stand
November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has refused to get involved in a lower court ruling clearing...
Court: Beneficiary Choice Invalid if under Duress or Intoxication
November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois federal judge has ruled that a participant's choice of his live-in girlfriend as...
Plan Without Employees Not Governed by ERISA
November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a pension...
Court Approves Colorado Firm's COLI Purchases
November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Minnesota federal judge has blessed a move by a Colorado utility company to carry...
Surviving Spouse Rights Supercede Named Beneficiaries
November 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Texas has ruled that the surviving...
Plan Amendment Was Abuse of Discretion
November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found that trustees of a...
Alternate Payee Can Pursue QDRO After Participant Death
November 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals determined that nothing in the Employee Retirement Income...
Court Agrees with Accidental Death Claim Denial
November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that the administrator...
No Remedy for Wrong Information Given to Participant
November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that ERISA provides no...
Denial of Benefits Governed by Divorce Agreement
November 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Tennessee Court of Appeals found that the intent of a marital dissolution agreement was...