Compliance | August 6th, 2009 Pension Funds Lose Effort to Stop Chrysler Sale August 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge...
Administration | August 4th, 2009 GE to Pay $50M for Accounting Fraud August 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed civil fraud and other charges against General Electric...
Administration | August 3rd, 2009 Q209 Securities Cases on Downslope August 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities lawyers were not quite as busy during the second quarter of 2009 as lawsuits...
Administration | July 30th, 2009 Credit Rating Agencies Face Second Lawsuit by Public Pension Fund July 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second state pension plan has sued the top credit rating agencies for misleading investors...
Administration | July 29th, 2009 NJ Sues Merrill over Pension Money Lost in Stock Deal July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has filed a lawsuit against Merrill Lynch & Co....
Benefits | July 27th, 2009 Utah Hospital Says Setting up 401(k) Was a Mistake July 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kane County (Utah) Hospital employees whose 401(k) retirement plan accounts have been frozen by the...
Compliance | July 20th, 2009 Elimination of Pensioner Death Benefit Did not Violate ERISA July 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's ruling that Qwest...
Administration | July 20th, 2009 Securities Class Actions Plummet in Mid-2009 July 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of federal securities class action cases filed in the first six months of...
Administration | July 13th, 2009 MO Officials Crack Down on Broker July 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Missouri broker who officials charge had improperly convinced investors to stop their 401(k) contributions...
Compliance | July 7th, 2009 AK Steel Faces New Lawsuit on Whipsaw Calculation for Distributions July 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new lawsuit alleging AK Steel Corp. violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...
Benefits | July 6th, 2009 Delta Sued over Pension Calc Changes July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Delta Air Lines flight attendant has sued the carrier over allegations Delta improperly adopted...
Administration | July 2nd, 2009 Pension Plans Named as BofA Suit Lead Plaintiffs July 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has tapped a group of public pension funds as...
Administration | June 30th, 2009 NM Teachers Union Files Suit over Madoff Investments June 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Mexico teachers union has filed a lawsuit against Austin Capital Management Ltd. over...
Administration | June 30th, 2009 Investment Scam Victims Include 403(b) Participants June 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Texas state district judge has approved the start of a claims process for Texans...
Administration | June 29th, 2009 Madoff Gets Life – and then Some. June 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It may be of little consolation to his victims, but a federal judge has given...
Compliance | June 26th, 2009 5th Circuit Gives Pension Funds New Shot at Securities Suit June 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a district court's decision denying class...
Compliance | June 25th, 2009 Smith Barney Fails to Get Pension Case Moved out of Court June 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has declined to enforce arbitration...
Compliance | June 17th, 2009 Health Plan Participant's Emotional Distress Charge Preempted by ERISA June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has dismissed an employee's charge...
Administration | June 16th, 2009 Aetna Securities Fraud Suit Dismissed June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed a securities fraud...
Compliance | June 16th, 2009 Participants in Company Stock Suit Fail to Get Class Certification June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has ruled that participants in...