Compliance | September 21st, 2022 Defendants Move to Dismiss Retirement Account Cyber-Theft Case A total of $750,000 was stolen from a retirement account managed by the defendants—who, the plaintiff alleges, ignored many red...
Compliance | September 16th, 2022 Suit Claims Janus Henderson Favored Its Own Funds in 401(k) Plan Case alleges firm put high-fee, underperforming proprietary funds in its retirement plan
Compliance | August 26th, 2022 UnitedHealth CFO Rex Is Named a Defendant in ERISA Lawsuit Plaintiffs’ attorneys have filed an amended Employee Retirement Income Security Act complaint, adding two new claims.
Compliance | August 24th, 2022 Plaintiffs Claim AME Church Plan Is Subject to ERISA A consolidated class action complaint claims that the church’s 401(k) plan elected to be governed by the Employee Retirement Income...
Products | August 1st, 2022 Sustainable Index Fund Debuts for 401(k) plans The Sphere Fossil-Free Fund is now available to more retirement plan investors.
Compliance | July 15th, 2022 DOL Sues Multiple Employer Plan Administrator Labor Secretary Marty Walsh has alleged several ERISA breaches.
Compliance | July 11th, 2022 Lawsuit Alleges $751K Retirement Account Theft A plan participant saw her whole defined contribution retirement account balance vanish.
Compliance | February 13th, 2019 Parts of Schwab Self-Dealing ERISA Lawsuit Will Proceed A district court in California has issued a mixed ruling in a self-dealing lawsuit filed against Schwab Retirement Plan Services...
Compliance | January 31st, 2019 ERISA Stock Drop Lawsuit Filed Against Johnson and Johnson Details in the text of the complaint explain that the stock price drop that plaintiffs say unduly harmed participants is...
Compliance | January 24th, 2019 American Century Defeats Self-Dealing ERISA Lawsuit The district court had several times ruled against the firm in summary dismissal and discovery decisions—but the firm has prevailed...
Compliance | January 16th, 2019 Best Practices for Managing ERISA Litigation Risk in 2019 Three Mayer Brown ERISA attorneys discuss the current litigation landscape and offer practical strategies for promoting compliance in 2019.
Compliance | January 15th, 2019 Plaintiffs Agree to Drop Empower ERISA Revenue-Sharing Lawsuit Both parties agreed to dismiss the litigation under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a), and each party will bear its...
Compliance | January 2nd, 2019 ERISA Challenge Targets Transamerica and Affiliates The complaint suggests Transamerica continued to offer proprietary portfolios when their rates of return were meaningfully below stated long-term benchmarks.
Compliance | December 31st, 2018 Assessing Courts’ ERISA Decisions in 2018 Some 83,000 lawsuits have been filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in federal district court since 2009,...
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 | October 2nd, 2018 District Court Soundly Dismisses Washington University 403(b) Lawsuit The court holds that bundling services or revenue sharing are common and acceptable investment industry practices that frequently inure to...
Compliance | March 27th, 2018 Willis Towers Watson Reaches Settlement With City of Houston The original lawsuit alleged negligence and professional malpractice by Willis Towers Watson in its actuarial work for the city; the...
Compliance | January 12th, 2018 Court Orders Plan Fiduciaries to Restore Losses for Misusing Plan Assets The Department of Labor found fiduciaries failed to remit salary deferrals and loan repayments and withdrew assets from the plan...