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...
Tag: ERISA
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...
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...
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...
Former Employee Not Covered Despite Premiums Paid
October 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled that an employee who...
Court Slaps Employer with $100 Daily Fine over Document Production
October 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that a pension plan administrator has to pay a $100...
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MA Firm Agrees to Deal in Pension Fraud Case
October 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts property management firm has agreed to a $126,000 settlement deal to dispose of...
Judge Upholds Disability Retirement Benefit Formula
October 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky federal judge has cleared a pension plan administrator of wrongdoing in reducing disability...
Appellate Judges Support Disability Finding
October 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of a long-term disability plan for a Chicago commodities-trading firm acted properly in...
ERISA Suit Sent to Maine Court
October 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Maine federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit claiming that the American Lung Association...
Fiduciary Breach Suit Dismissed as too late
October 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant in a Nebraska K plan was too late to pursue an Employee Retirement...
No Equitable Relief for Mistaken Distribution Return
October 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Ohio federal judge has ruled that a pension plan administrator cannot continue to push...
Severance Denied for Refusal to Sign Agreement
October 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled in favor of...