PSNC 2020: Preston Rutledge’s Inside View of the DOL
As the nation’s top retirement and health plan regulator, Preston Rutledge oversaw an agency of more than 800 employee benefits...
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DOL’s Proposed ESG Restrictions Panned in Public Comments
The clear trend among investment managers, retirement industry professionals and members of the public is skepticism about the need for...
DOL Seeks Stricter Limits on ESG Investing Under ERISA
The proposed regulation would “confirm that ERISA requires plan fiduciaries to select investments and investment courses of action based solely...
Final Electronic Disclosure Rule Published by DOL
The leadership at the regulator says this measure will reduce printing, mailing and related plan costs by an estimated $3.2...
DOL Provides Relief for Certain Retirement Plan Requirements
Relief is provided for verification requirements for loans and distributions and timing for forwarding contributions and loan repayments, among other...
EBSA Head Rutledge to Depart Role in Late May
Perhaps his most significant contribution was the role Preston Rutledge played in undoing the Obama-era DOL fiduciary rule expansion.
Administrator of Self-Funded Health Plans Ordered to Restore Funds
The Department of Labor found WH Administrators failed to provide proper plan funding and pay medical claims, as well as...
Former Pension Fund Trustee to Pay $462K for Embezzlement
The trustee embezzled approximately $186,123.93 from the plan, as well as knowingly and willingly failed to file a required annual...
DOL Enforcement Efforts Are Wide-Ranging
While the DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration is diligent in protecting employees’ benefits, plan sponsors can also turn to it...
E-Delivery Proposal Could be Improved, Stakeholders Say
While the retirement plan industry has reacted positively to a DOL proposal to make default e-delivery of plan documents the...
Criticism of DOL E-Delivery Proposal Misses the Mark, Experts Say
“We think there will be cost savings from e-delivery and that these cost savings will be passed on to individual...
Investment Adviser Sentenced for Defrauding Pension Plan
The Department of Labor found the investment adviser made 63 fraudulent requests to Transamerica for lump sum benefit checks for...
DOL Invites Correction for Failure to Timely Remit Contributions
An update from law firm Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. says that based on reviews of Form 5500s, the...
Failure to Remit Contributions Cost Retirement Plan Fiduciaries Over $500,000
In addition, a federal district court has ordered the trustee of the plans not to serve in a fiduciary capacity...
Retirement Plan Sponsors and Providers Given Relief by DOL Due to Hurricanes
The DOL relief relates to plan loans and distributions, remittance of contributions and blackout period notices.
ERISA Attorneys Interpret DOL MEP Regulations
Industry stakeholders disappointed the proposal does not address open MEPs can take heart in the fact that DOL staff are...
EBSA Secures ERISA Settlement from Neuroscience Center
The plan’s sole fiduciary and trustee has agreed to restore pension assets that, according to an EBSA investigation, were improperly...
DOL’s Open MEP Proposal Advances Through OMB
If the DOL’s proposal closely follows President Trump’s executive orders, it is likely to revise the “common nexus” and “one...
Business Owner Gets Prison for Benefit Plan Embezzlement
A DOL investigation found the business owner used benefit plan contributions for corporate and personal expenses.
Litigators Not the Only Ones Looking Into Retirement Plan Investments and Fees
The EBSA’s Plan Investment Conflicts (PIC) project have reviewed conflicts of interest of fiduciary service providers and investment managers of...