Workers Lose Severance Benefits Bid
September 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of former employees of a Pennsylvania company lost the bid to gain severance...
Tag: ERISA
Benefit Form Governs Despite Intent of Participant
September 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling and decided that...
Court Dismisses Suit of Children Not Named as Beneficiaries
September 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A district court judge has found that a deceased participant's children lack standing to sue...
Michigan Retiree Health Benefits Suit ERISA Preempted
September 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan federal judge has ruled that retirees can't sue their former employer in state...
ESOP Trustee Secretly Takes Over Company
September 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee found that an Employee Stock...
Drugmaker Cleared of COBRA Notice Wrongdoing
September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Delaware federal judge has thrown out part of a lawsuit filed by a former...
Court Denies Ex-Wife's Waiver of Benefits
September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a retiree could not change his...
Judge Clears Chase of Fiduciary Breach Charges
September 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has cleared officials at Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation of fiduciary breach charges...
Plan in the Clear for Recouping $118,000 in Pension Overpayments
September 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected arguments from a retired American Airlines pilot that it wasn't...
Wife Killer Not Entitled To Benefits
September 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ruled that a retirement...
Azon Corp. to Restore ESOP Money
September 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Azon Corp. has agreed to a settlement of $9.35 million for employee stock ownership plan...
JPMorgan CoStocks K Plan Suit Dismissed
September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court ruling in a case involving company stock in the K plan of JPMorgan...
Employer's 'Honest Error' Still Warrants Penalty Says Judge
September 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though an employer's failure to provide COBRA notice to a former employee was an...
Partial Plan Termination Not Discriminatory
September 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A district court judge threw out a participant's charge that he was specifically discriminated against...
Rulings Show Participants Invested in Co. Stock Have Recourse
August 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two recent court rulings provide assurance to participants who invest their retirement savings in company...
Court Upholds Early Retirement Denial for Employee on LTD
August 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that an employer...
Court Denies Venue Change for ERISA Case
August 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A judge in the US District Court for the District of Maryland decided that it...
Employer Hit with $2,500 Fine for Plan Information Disclosure Delay
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has slapped a Puerto Rican company with a $2,500 fine for delaying...
California Woman Loses LTD Benefits Challenge
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Employee Retirement Income...
Recovering Losses For Individual Participants Is Recovery For The Plan
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has disagreed with a lower court...