Compliance | September 11th, 2014 Signature Authority May Trigger ERISA Fiduciary Status September 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A company CEO’s signature authority for payments from the company’s bank account may make him...
Compliance | September 9th, 2014 Employer Claims Against Fiduciary Liability Insurer Can Proceed September 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A retirement plan sponsor’s breach of contract claims against its fiduciary liability insurer have been...
Compliance | August 28th, 2014 Court Blocks DC Plan Participant Claims Against Madoff Trustee August 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal bankruptcy judge has affirmed the denial of recovery claims from retirement plan participants...
Compliance | August 27th, 2014 Government Backs Top Court Review of 401(k) Plan Fee Case August 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Solicitor General has filed a brief asking the United States Supreme Court to...
Compliance | August 13th, 2014 Fidelity to Settle Excessive Fee Suits August 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Fidelity Investments has agreed to a settlement of two lawsuits charging it with subjecting its...
Compliance | August 8th, 2014 Litigators Call for Supreme Court Review of Tussey Case August 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A well-known 401(k) fee litigation firm has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review key...
Compliance | August 8th, 2014 Company Owner Personally Liable for Missing Contributions August 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Charles David Snyder, fiduciary to the Cleveland-based Attevo 401(k) retirement plan, has been ordered by...
Compliance | August 7th, 2014 Anheuser-Busch Pension Participants Owed Enhanced Benefits August 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appellate court has determined that certain participants of Anheuser-Busch’s pension plan are due...
Compliance | August 7th, 2014 Appellate Court Sends RJR Stock Drop Suit Back for Review August 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A lower court applied the wrong standard when determining that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (RJR)...
Compliance | July 25th, 2014 Plaintiffs Granted Summary Judgment in Church Plan Case July 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal district court in California has granted a motion for partial summary judgment against...
Compliance | July 25th, 2014 More Church Plan Challenges Filed in Federal Court July 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two court cases filed this week by retirement plan participants claim their employers’ retirement benefits...
Deals and People | July 22nd, 2014 Wagner Law Group Adds ERISA Specialist July 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stephen Rosenberg, an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and labor law litigator, has joined...
Compliance | July 16th, 2014 Appeals Court Revives BP Stock Drop Suit July 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal appeals court has revived a stock drop case, filed against oil company BP...
Compliance | June 26th, 2014 Presumption of Prudence Decision Not a Total Win for Anyone June 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court this week ruled employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) fiduciaries are not...
Compliance | June 25th, 2014 ESOP Fiduciaries Not Entitled to Presumption of Prudence June 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Supreme Court has decided fiduciaries of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are not...
Compliance | June 17th, 2014 Protect Fiduciaries with the Right Insurance June 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Just one type of fiduciary liability protection is required by the Employee Retirement Income Security...
Compliance | June 6th, 2014 Lumber Company Sued for Mismanagement of Plan Assets June 6, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Department of Labor (DOL) has filed a lawsuit to recover 401(k) plan assets mismanaged...
Compliance | June 5th, 2014 Fiduciary Status Not Triggered by Contribution in Company Stock June 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court ruled Morgan Stanley & Co. and its CEO were not acting...
Compliance | May 30th, 2014 Realtor to Repay Plan for Bad Real Estate Investment May 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal district court has ordered an Oregon realtor to repay more than $400,000 to...
Compliance | May 29th, 2014 Court Deems MassMutual a Fiduciary for Setting Compensation May 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A plan sponsor’s lawsuit over revenue sharing payments has moved forward as a court found...