Compliance | April 26th, 2018 Plaintiff in UPenn 403(b) Suit Asks for Amicus Briefs to Not Be Accepted For one thing, the plaintiff argues the briefs filed in support of the University of Pennsylvania provide the university an...
Compliance | April 26th, 2018 Motion for Class Certification Filed in American Airlines Stable Value Fund Suit The complaint says that instead of offering a stable value fund in its 401(k) plan, American Airlines offered the AA...
Compliance | April 23rd, 2018 Investment Firms Sued Over Kentucky Retirement Systems Hedge Fund Investments The lawsuit alleges investment firms sold investments to KRS that were “extremely high-risk” and produced “excessive fees, poor returns and...
Compliance | April 18th, 2018 Court Finds DB Plan Change Does Not Violate ERISA or ADEA Northern Trust amended its benefit formula in 2012 and provided a transitional benefit that assumed salary increases of 1.5% per...
Compliance | April 4th, 2018 Most Claims Dismissed in Case About TIAA Loan Processes A federal district court judge agreed that TIAA is not a fiduciary with respect to the design of its participant...
Compliance | April 3rd, 2018 Court Moves Forward Claims in Yale 403(b) Plan Case A federal district court judge denied dismissal of most violation of duty of prudence claims.
Compliance | April 2nd, 2018 NYU Asks to Exclude Certain Evidence from Trial in 403(b) Plans Case The university also asks that the plaintiffs not be able to attempt to use evidence that their prudent measures and...
Compliance | March 30th, 2018 Edward Jones Fails to Win Dismissal of Self-Dealing Suit The defendants argued that a court decision in a self-dealing lawsuit against Wells Fargo supports their motion to dismiss their...
Compliance | March 26th, 2018 Gannett Faces ERISA Stock Drop Complaint The lawsuit alleges that Gannett Co., its benefit plans committee and other fiduciaries’ decision to concentrate plan investments in Gannett’s...
Compliance | March 26th, 2018 Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of CVS Stable Value Fund Suit The appellate court found no evidence that the CVS retirement plan’s stable value fund departed radically from the investment standards...
Compliance | March 20th, 2018 Court Denies Participant Second Chance at Voya ERISA Suit A federal district court judge ruled a new complaint alleging Voya Financial and Voya Retirement Advisors engaged in prohibited transactions...
Compliance | February 20th, 2018 Court Dismisses Case Relating to Acquisition of Retirement Plan One point the appellate court clearly noted is that the plaintiff did not allege that the new company failed to...
Compliance | February 16th, 2018 Allegations Against Northrop Grumman Pared Down in Excessive Fee Suit Complaints against individual defendants, however, were not dropped.
Compliance | January 30th, 2018 Supreme Court Asked to Weigh In on Two Claims Regarding Denial of Benefits A beneficiary of a deceased pension plan participant has filed both a fiduciary violation claim and a claim for benefits,...
Compliance | January 29th, 2018 Request to Appeal Class Certification Denied in Franklin Templeton Suit The firm’s lawyers noted that the plaintiff signed an agreement not to pursue any class action claims, but a Supreme...
Compliance | January 17th, 2018 University of Chicago 403(b) Suit Gets Claims Added Back A federal judge had dismissed claims related to one of the university’s plans, but a new complaint, and a new...
Compliance | January 16th, 2018 Vanderbilt University 403(b) Plan Suit Continues to Next Stage While some claims were dismissed, others were moved forward.
Compliance | December 28th, 2017 Great-West Wins Suit Over Key Guaranteed Portfolio Fund A judge ultimately found that Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company was not a fiduciary with respect to the fund...
Compliance | December 4th, 2017 Class Representatives Say J.P. Morgan Lawsuit Settlement Is Not Enough Last month, J.P. Morgan agreed to pay $75 million to settle litigation accusing it of investing stable value funds in...
Compliance | November 22nd, 2017 Wells Fargo 401(k) Participant Files Excessive Fee, Self-Dealing Suit Throughout the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that the plan’s fiduciaries’ lack of a systematic and unbiased review process caused participants...