Class Action Status Denied in Case Against Plan Access Freeze
December 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton for the US District Court for the Northern District of...
Tag: ERISA
Court Denies Change of Beneficiary from Ex to Current Wife
December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that a pension plan...
Employee Not Eligible for Early Retirement Benefits After Resignation
December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi has ruled that a voluntary...
Judge Clears Path for Fund Trading Suit against Strong
December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Maryland has allowed a K plan participant to push forward with...
Judge Attacks SPD as Ambiguous
December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has ruled for the plaintiff in a lawsuit against a...
Court Overturns Death Benefit Finding
December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has agreed with an accidental death benefit plan participant that...
Pension Committee's Investment Guidelines are Formal Plan Documents
December 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a second ruling relating to a Qwest Communications lawsuit, Chief US District Judge Lewis...
Judge Overturns Benefits Denial in Accidental Death Case
December 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in West Virginia has thrown out a benefits denial by an accidental...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...