Death Cause not Necessarily Accident Under Plan Terms
December 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied accidental death benefits for...
Tag: ERISA
Appellate Judges Uphold ExxonMobil Insurance Denial
December 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the ExxonMobil employee benefits department posthumously signed up a physician for added life...
Fiduciary Breach Claims Must Seek Relief for Whole Plan
November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled that claims alleging a...
Court Overturns Benefits Ruling for Widow of Drunk Driver
November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that the...
Employee Fired for Plan Inquiry Awarded Damages
November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Minnesota has awarded damages and attorney's fees...
Company Fined for Failure to Provide Plan Documents
November 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has ruled that a plan...
Extra-judicial Contracts Sufficient to Recoup Benefit Overpayments
November 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a plan administrator is not required...
Plan Document Trumps Antenuptial Agreement in Favor of Surviving Spouse
October 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ruled that, even though the...
Former Employee Has no Standing in Company Stock Suit
October 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that a 401(k)...
Ex-Union President Wins $300K in Disability Benefits
October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A union pension plan committee failed to prove that a former union president's stress-related ailments...
Physical Disability Alone not Enough to Deny Benefits
October 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an administrator of a multiemployer pension...
Participant Time-Barred from Fiduciary Claim Against Coca-Cola
October 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that a former Coca-Cola...
DoL Sues Agway over Co. Stock Fund Management
October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced it has filed a lawsuit against fiduciaries of...
Woman May Pursue Claim of IRA Exclusion in Bankruptcy
October 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a woman whose claims...
Court Rules Plan Must Comply with Posthumous QDRO
October 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a pension...
Surviving Spouse not Entitled to IRA Benefits
October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Arizona has ruled that the surviving spouse...
Unisys Loses Benefits Reduction Fight
October 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that the Unisys Corp. breached its fiduciary duties by telling...
Retiree Meets Three-year ERISA Fiduciary Breach Limitation
October 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled that fiduciary breach limitations set...
Court Throws Out Chicago Tribune Fiduciary Breach Case
October 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because the effect of an advertising scandal on the Tribune Company's bottom line was minimal,...
Court OKs $100M AOL Time Warner 401(k) Suit Settlement
October 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has approved a $100-million settlement in a 401(k) fiduciary...