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 20th, 2018 Principal Faces Lawsuit Over Management of TDFs The lawsuit questions the selection of underlying investments for the Principal LifeTime Hybrid Collective Investment Funds, alleging Principal used proprietary...
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 16th, 2018 Brief in University of Pennsylvania 403(b) Lawsuit Points Out Differences From 401(k)s An amici curiae brief filed by the American Council on Education and other higher education associations details the history of...
Compliance | April 12th, 2018 Former Committee Members Not Free from Church Plan Challenge Former committee members for the pension plan of St. Elizabeth Medical Center moved to have themselves dismissed from a lawsuit...
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 | March 14th, 2018 SunTrust Agrees to Settlement in Long-Running ERISA Suit In addition to a monetary payment of $4.75 million, the bank agreed to non-monetary terms regarding payment and vesting of...
Compliance | February 26th, 2018 Appellate Court Orders Dismissal of Fee Case Against Transamerica Just as another court did in a similar complaint against John Hancock, brought by the same plaintiffs, the 9th Circuit...
Compliance | February 22nd, 2018 Court Affirms Dismissal of Fidelity Stable Value Fund Suit The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Fidelity’s decision to obtain more secure wrap coverage for the stable...
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 | February 8th, 2018 5th Circuit Affirms Dismissal of RadioShack Stock Drop Suit The court found participant claims did not meet standards set forth in Fifth Third Bank v. Dudenhoeffer.